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Regular week. Still doing the Bites, Licks and Tastes. Weight is fine though. I still want to dial it back just to be on habit. My eldest is home with a container of yummies from my Dear MIL. I put them in a cupboard so those who want them can go them but they aren't out to tempt me. Exercise is fin...

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I eat three meals.

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mrsj wrote: I am too obese to start serious excersizing now. I have to shrink 5 more kilos before I can start walking 1 hour a day. Doctor's orders.

Can you start walking 15 or 20 minutes a day before losing the 5 kilos? Or are you doing that now? Every little bit helps.

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thtrchic wrote:How long does the lettuce, etc stay good for you in that container? A week?

Longer. Closer to two. But it's so easy to eat with it chopped up that it usually doesn't last that long.

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I have very balanced meals because I buy the parts that go into a balanced meal when I shop, though I don't know what they're going to be exactly beforehand, except that there is protein, starch veggie and fruit. Maybe that's my meal planning. I would call that a form of meal planning. I think it's...

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Just because you can eat whatever you want on No S doesn't mean you should. No So gives us the freedom to stop obsessing about nutrition, not to ignore it entirely*. If you want to have even a modicum of balanced meals, then meal planning is a necessity. Having said that, I do know that real life cr...

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Good luck. Sometimes it takes the risk of losing something very dear to us to get us motivated.

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More mindless grazing this weekend. There was solitary snacking. Tracking doesn't seem to help, probably because I'm tracking too many things. I am taking daily blood pressure and between that, my weight and my No S I feel it's enough to stay on top of. I actually think it's more bad habit than anyt...

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Quiet week other than last night's fail with the sweet potato fries. I hit a new low weight wise yesterday but was up about .6 of a pound today. Part of that was the SPF no doubt but I'm wondering if part of it was glycogen in the muscles after weight lifting. I don't know what it is, but this week ...

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Steak pie. I think I need to find a recipe.

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A while back there was a good thread in which the lovely and talented KCCC noted that nobody in their right mind would go drive a car into a wall (wreck) after bending the fender by backing into a light post (ding). Outside fails are dings. They don't really do much damage as long as they are small ...

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And the Xena spirit descends on Sue! You go, girl! Sometimes having an "enough is enough" moment is exactly the ticket.

Enough with the bargaining. Enough with the manipulation. Enough with the excuses. Enough with the lame commitments. ENOUGH.

It's time for something new.

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I like the whey powder. I use it in place of a drink of milk when I feel the need to quell hunger between meals. I can't imagine putting it on cereal or oatmeal though. I use yogurt for that.

And yes, it's worth it.

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The Artisan Bread people now have a recipe for pizza and flatbread doughs.

http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/2011/ ... k-giveaway

I think I know what I'm having this weekend.

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I still do the mindless grazing thing on weekendsl things like crackers and walnuts. Drives me crazy. And it's truly mindless as I determined I was going to the No Solitary S mod. I like being a little hungry for meals and it seems any snacking pretty much kills that. But it's right back on track on...

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Yesterday was good. No unusual fails other than picking at some veggie pieces on the Supreme pizza. I have decided to start track these picks on my Joe's Goals calendar separately as BLTs (bite lick taste) since I started feeling a little disheartened at the fails at seconds AND it was setting me up...

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Wow! What an amazing testimony! My DH needs to get his cholesterol down. He is slowly, slowly, slowly coming around to No S. This gives me hope.

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Yesterday I finally reached my pre-Thanksgiving weight. I did weights and had a normal day, eating wise, though I got really hungry in the middle of the afternoon. Dinner was a nicely full plate which I must have needed because the scale this morning showed my weight nudged down another .4 lbs. I'm ...

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I've said before that No S is the only diet where you start in the maintenance phase. This is a nice case study to show it. Well done!

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I don't think fiber is the answer. I know a number of people who eat high fiber diets and they eat constantly. While this article isn't about finding the foods that satisfy you, her experience is interesting: A Vegan No More . I read that blog post. Interesting. And it probably explains why oatmeal...

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Glad you are hanging in there, Deb!

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Tonight I'm making vegetable stock to make round two of the tomato soup. I'm using a variation of Mark Bittman's recipe: http://markbittman.com/very-flavorful-vegetable-stock-in-1-hour I didn't have white mushrooms and wanted to save the portabellos for the tomato soup. I also did not have soy sauce...

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I didn't finish yesterday as an N day but didn't over indulge either. Today was the usual. I feel pretty full after dinner. I put about a half a serving spoon more of sweet potato fries on my plate than I would have but nothing extreme. Today was spinning at the Y. 6AM exercise class is something of...

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John, if you have a health condition such as IBS, I should think the priority would be to manage that first and then try to adapt No S to those limitations.

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Yesterday I succumbed to cake. And paid the price as I felt pretty sick. I think I am over cake. The scale is showing me that this over indulging is not good for me. I don't think I really gained 4 lbs in as many days but really, this heavy eating can't be good for me. Today, has been an N day, even...

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Marsie's recipe looks similar to a Manhattan clam chowder. Technically, you need pork, either bacon or salt pork, to make it a true Manhattan clam chowder but otherwise, it looks pretty close. I like the Worcestershire idea. I think I will try that today along with some finely diced portabello mushr...

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Yesterday was Thanksgiving, the ultimate of NWS days. I indulged.

Today is an N day and so far, I've been compliant. I am going to have a glass or two of wine tonight. I am rather uninterested in pie today.

I didn't exercise today or yesterday. Oh well.

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Thank you for your support, Mary! I too suspect it's nothing, but don't want to get too cavalier lest it turn out to be something. At the same time, I am not going to worry until we know if there is something to worry about it. My attitude right now is "we'll deal with it when we know more." As you ...

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What would it do? Habitcal?

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I listened to an episode the other night. I got a kick from the family vs. corporate dairy farm plot.

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Fail. Last night I nibbled communion bread which I was baking for Sunday. Had an appointment about my recurring medical condition. The findings were pretty much what I expected. However, they found something else which I did not expect so now I have to go see another specialist. Could be nothing, co...

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I am going through a tomato soup phase as it is my quintessential comfort food when paired with a grilled cheese sandwich. As part of my on-going quest to eliminate processed foods from my diet, I want to master a few soups that are easy, cheap and taste really really good. Please share your current...

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It must be that time of year. This is the second thread about tomato soup I've come across on the internet.

Maybe I will start a soup thread.

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Happy Birthday! And sorry about your breakup. Even if it was for the best, those things are rarely easy.

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Ok, I am intrigued. I love radio drama. There is just so little of it here in the US though I think the internet is reviving it as an entertainment form. For a long while, the only radio drama I came across were old fashioned religious dramas. Can you listen online or download episodes to MP3 player...

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wosnes wrote: I found this version which seems even simpler to me: No-Knead Crusty White Bread.

This past weekend, I used the King Arthur recipe but used bread flour instead of all purpose. I also let the 2nd rise go for a full hour. Probably the best loaf I've made to date.

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KCCC, I have a good start but will I actually get them mailed in a timely manner? Stay tuned... Deb, thank you for the kind words. If I can look at my tracking as scientific data rather than a report card on my morality, tracking in the daily check in is not difficult. Yesterday was ok. Probably ate...

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Walnuts
Prime rib (Christmas dinner)
Twice baked potatoes (Christmas dinner)
Cranberry/orange relish

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Friday was back on track. What a relief. I was a little out of sorts all day yesterday. I'm thinking Seasonal Affective Disorder. Some years it bothers me more than others - I suspect it has something to do with how cloudy it's been, how much time I've been outside recently, Vitamin D levels, etc. e...

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Major fail tonight. Urg.

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I can see that. Part of the reason for constant vigilance is that normal eating is so so outside the mainstream. Portions are huge. Readily available food is designed by food scientists and psychologists to make us want to eat more (See End of Overeating by David Kessler and Mindless Eating by Brian...

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This is something that I think we do need to give some thought. I talk about the book The Hunger Games a lot, I know. It's probably dorky that a book written for teenagers hit me so, but it's really gotten to me how little we know of real hunger. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm deeply grateful to b...

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Marsie, it really is best for me to just not say anything because I know I come on too strong. And in doing so I heap another shovelful of guilt and or frustration on them. Anyhoo, I've been on habit. Last night we had pork chops w/ homemade mushroom/onion gravy and roasted sweet potato fries. I'm s...

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For me to get my BMI lower even though it was in the healthy range, I had to reduce the amount I ate and increase my exercise. I also have to make sure that my meals include lots of fruit and veggies. Half my meal at dinner needs to be veggies. Plus I do daytime vegetarian where I don't eat meat dur...

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Despite my fails of last week, the weekend was the tamest it's been. And this morning's weight showed it. I shared No S with some friends and it went ok. Trying to get people to understand no snacks means no snacks is harder than it should be. They were politely interested though I doubt any of them...

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I looked at the rules for the Leptin Diet. Since there are five of them and only three for No S I would say that Leptin is slightly more restrictive. That's not to say they aren't good rules. They are. But implementing them all at once seems like a lot of lifestyle changes to make. I know I got burn...

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My opinion? Stay with "vanilla No S" - no tweaks, no mods - for a while longer. I've been doing vanilla No S since early May and am just now beginning to feel like my weekends are quieting down. Just to put the above into context I've been doing No S on and off for a while, since shortly before my j...

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juliek wrote:Avoided cake at work today. No snacks until dinner prep was going on. I need to figure something out for this time of the day.

Try gum.

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DaveMc wrote:I think it would count as a problem if you start writing yourself into scenes where you're forced to eat entire pies in the name of comedy.

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ThomsonsPier wrote:That's a good general rule, I think; if it's planned and deliberate, there's little danger of mindless consumption.

We're doing The 39 Steps at Progress Theatre in Reading (starting next week, if anyone's in the area and interested).

Oh, that looks like fun!

Break a leg!

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I'm not a diabetic but it goes without saying that managing your blood sugar comes first. If you need to eat a snack or a sweet then do it. Sickness is an S so it's not a fail.

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Ah, if you have weird health issues then you have to consider No S as prevention rather than remediation. There is no way to know what would have happened if you had spent the last six months eating as you did previously. No S most likely prevented you gaining more weight even if it didn't remediate...

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Another fail. Seconds at dinner again. This is ridiculous. Six months of full compliance w/ No S and I've not failed four days in a row until now. It was the crackers with the chili this time. I don't know if it's related but I just can't get warm. It's been cool here, temps in the 20's in the morni...

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I'm just throwing out ideas here. Are you drinking enough water? I can get bloated if I'm not drinking enough.

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You're right. I haven't seen that before. FWIW, I generally don't count small nibbles that are purposeful; i.e. tasting a soup to see if it needs more salt. These aren't fails because you aren't setting yourself up to go off habit. What show are you doing? I do enjoy local theater. I go several time...

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Third day in a row with a minor fail. I had seconds on roasted sweet potatoes with mushrooms and onions at dinner tonight. I will mark it as fail but honestly, I'm not regretful it was that good. I ate most of it on a pita with hummus but went back for seconds of the veggies. I'm alone tonight as DH...

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What the heck is a no fat bra? As much as I love the sound of a no fat bra, I meant no bra fat. Bra fat is that little squidgy on your latissimus dorsum muscles from your bra band. You have to be very lean and very muscular as a woman to get rid of bra fat. Not worth the work in my opinion. YMMV.

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If you feel doughy then start some hard core weight training. Lift heavy, lift to failure. Up the protein. If you want to get cut or even just buff and you just don't have the genes for it, you will have to work at it. But really, I bet you are fine. I'm wondering if working in the entertainment ind...

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Minor fail. Had seconds on squash at colony and lentil/rice side dish at home. Both would have fit on my plate.

No exercise but I will take this as one of my days off. I get two each week so I will take W and F.

And I'm finally done with my work travel. No more Hutterite colonies this year.

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My satiety foods are full fat dairy, peanut butter and wheat.

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Weekend was ok, not yet where I want it to be but ok. Today was a fail. I had tapioca at lunch (colony again) and seconds on chips at dinner. I exercised Sat., Sun. and will go to the Y here in a moment. Last colony for the year tomorrow. Today's colony sent home a whole loaf of bread. It was wonder...

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Congrats on the sane eating!

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Yay! I hope this generates lots of interest and even more importantly lots of participation in sane, healthy eating.

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Another colony today. I left at 6AM so that meant a PBJ and banana on the road. For lunch there was more dumplings and broth. The dumplings are really very good - probably the best I've ever eaten. There were ginger cookies for dessert. Since I was told they were "extra special cookies" I took one t...

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Funny because it's so painfully true. Oh the things we do to ourselves. Good on you for getting back on track quickly.

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They are sweets in my book, despite their desperate attempt to appear otherwise. Just because it has oats in it doesn't mean that it's a proper breakfast food. If you want the health benefits of granola, eat granola. Essentially, granola is a variation on oatmeal. It's oats, nuts, fruit and some sug...

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Pizza for dinner last night. I ordered thin crust veggie and cheese to support my son in his weight loss efforts. Plus, that's what I like. Interestingly enough, two slices plus a salad w/ a little dressing (that's my half plate veg guideline) would come out to about 600 calories (I know this becaus...

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A freezer is a good friend to those of us who No S. That and the garbage pail.

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Had the beer and thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn't even tempted by the candy we had on hand for the trick or treaters that didn't come. Funny that. On N days, Reese's aren't a temptation. On an S day, it's a different matter entirely. I'll have one and then another and maybe even another because that ...

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Wow! Congrats!!

Enjoy your new lease on life. I'm sure this added years to your life but also it sounds like it's adding life to your years. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!

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Eat lunch around 12 and dinner around 8:30. Toss back a protein beverage like milk or a protein drink just before class. This isn't sustainable but you can do it for one day.

If I'm in a situation where I can't eat and where I'm busy, I rarely find hunger distracting.

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Let us know how it goes. Personally, I couldn't let my DH dictate what I eat as I would quickly grow resentful. But every couple is different and this might be just the ticket for you.

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The point is not what she ate, but how. Three meals a day. Two of them were big enough to carry her through to the next meal. The larger meal had lots of veg. Apparently, eating a rich tea biscuit didn't evolve into two biscuits, then two biscuits at night and one in the late afternoon, and then sco...

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No chicken but a large hamburger. And appetizers, bread and a salad. The rest of the weekend was tame-ish, though I wouldn't call it tame. Today is back to normal. Even though it's Halloween, I'm not having any sweets today. Way too many S days/events in the next two months. Exercise is also back on...

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I dunno. I had the Boston Cream Pie fail last Thursday and a rich weekend - cheesecake, ice cream, M&Ms, a bake sale treat at church. We are having meatloaf and roasted veggies tonight. Maybe I'll have a beer instead of a sweet. Beer is less of trigger for me than sweets, much less likely to indulge.

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I'm working on keeping this S day tame. I had a biscotti at the coffee shop with DH after going to the Y. Other than that, everything else has been normal. Tonight we will be going out for dinner. I'm not enthused, partly because I don't feel well, partly because the menu tends to be quite heavy. Si...

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Welcome back, Deb! So sorry that it was hard times that kept you away but I'm glad you are back.

If being part of this community keeps you on track then you just took a HUGE step in coming back. Well done.

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An article published in yesterday's NEJM purported to show why weight loss was so hard to maintain. Personally, I think the findings should have been refined to why weight loss from a crash diet is so hard to maintain. My main quibble with this study is how they had participants lose weight. Partici...

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Contained fail yesterday. I had homemade banana cream pie at the colony. No exercise, either. I'm glad I don't travel much next week.

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Yesterday I got pretty hungry at dinner time probably because I didn't eat much at the noon meal. I ate the cereal and banana I had designated for breakfast the next day's breakfast in addition to the dahl burrito and salad I had. Plus a protein drink. Exercise was marching/jogging in front of the T...

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I find the Hutterites so fascinating! Why does your job take you there? Are you in education? Yes informal eductation. Informal education are those institutions such as museums, zoos, science centers, that work with K-12 education as well the general population. The Hutterite schools are run by the...

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Real life. Real food. Real diet.

My work situation right now would be a nightmare if I was restricted in what I could eat.

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milliem wrote:Dare I ask what counts as 'middle age'?!

The article didn't say. Personally, I think it can mean whatever you want it to mean.

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Since many of us here are middle age, I thought I would share. It's never too late to get healthy. HEALTH Well: Midlife Weight Loss Cuts Heart Risk By By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Published: October 24, 2011 Being overweight as a teenager carries a greater risk of being an overweight adult, along with an incr...

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I had dinner (or the noon meal) at the Hutterite colony again today. They serve the oddest food sometimes. Today's oddity was a pastry wrapped stuffing that you cut up and poured broth on. It was pretty good. I am wondering about the appropriateness of asking for recipes. I had a bit o' chicken, a b...

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I tried seltzer with a bit of vanilla in it. It was good, like cream soda.

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Two hour Zumba class on Sat. Wow. Pie for dinner on Sunday. May I just say that peach pie is greatly improved by the following: 1. Fresh peaches 2. A sprinkle of cinnamon in the flour/sugar fruit coating. 3. 1/4th teaspoon vanilla extract over peaches. 4. A crumb top pie. I'm not a huge peach pie fa...

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Good idea. Diets are like children. Your own are far more interesting to you than they are to anyone else even if they feign polite interest.

I've dropped about 10lbs and a few people have noticed. No one, however, has asked me how I did it.

People really don't want to talk about dieting.

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I think this is one of those issues where the result is a synergistic combination of different factors, each of which is weighted differently depending on the individuals. Different peer group, better grocery stores, neighborhoods with better resources: I don't think there's ONE silver bullet to fix...

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I would take the second option as well. Take the ones that look really good and enjoy those.

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Weight wise, I'm back to the low I hit in Aug. I think it's a sign of just how taxing these programs I do in the schools are. I've got three more next week PLUS meetings. Yig. Breakfast was yogurt, cereal AND a banana. Lunch was salad, bread and an apple with a wee sprinkle of cinnamon sugar. I don'...

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No S is unique in that many people start the diet in the maintenance phase. Once they get the habits down, then they tweak till they start seeing weight loss. I was on the three year plan, apparently, in that I did No S on and off for about three years. I didn't gain weight but didn't lose either (d...

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Thanks to Flylady, I've been trying to do a Before Bed Routine which includes assembling as much of dinner the night before as I can. Knowing I had another 10 hour day today, I prepped the ingredients for beef stew last night, popped it into the crockpot this morning before setting out for another l...

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wosnes wrote: You're right about that! Although, it does depend on the restaurant.

Yes, I should have said chain restaurants. You might have to visit around to find a place that prepares most of their food from scratch/with minimally processed ingredients.

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The day went as planned, except that I nibbled the crust on the potpie, a technical second. Crust nibbling seems to be a recurring problem. I love crust. I really, really do.

I think (again) that I will make a pie this weekend. Apple pie.

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Well done!

Restaurant food has tons of hidden sugars and fat, not to mention sodium which makes one puffy and is rough on the blood pressure.

You are doing yourself a huge health favor by eating more at home with homecooked food and not just for weigh loss purposes.

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osoniye wrote: I try to eat high satiety foods like fruit/veg/oats/dairy.

I re-read the post and for the record, these aren't MY high satiety foods. Are you sure they are yours or do you just think they should be based on something you read?

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As much as I would like to think that Reinhard has cornered the market on being sensible, I know that there are others out there who are on board.

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I go hungry. It's rough. And sometimes, I rebound on the weekends. I dare not fiddle with the rules, though, as that would be the first step on the slippery slope for me.

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Breakfast was yogurt and Cheerios. Lunch was at the Hutterite colony. It was rice & milk soup, cottage cheese dumplings, a roasted carrot chunk, half a potato, onion slice and slice of bread. Usually Tuesdays are turkey cutlets and split pea soup or so I was told. I have to admit, I'm disappointed I...

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