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gratefuldeb67

hi fun, nice to see you again

i am restarting again this year too..
good luck.. i'm sure you will get back on track and you *do* deserve to succeed!!

deb x

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i'm not clicking that link "lolita" even if you say please!

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had a major success last night.. i was great during the day and did exercise, but by late evening, just before going to bed, i had several very strong urges to have "something" to eat.. i was not extremely hungry but it was that feeling like "i could have something now..." i actually found myself ta...

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doing my exercise today felt great!
i danced for 15 mins and then i did 100 crunches and some reclining "bicycling" on the floor (my legs going like i was bicycling..)
i'm psyched to have a great rest of the week!

gratefuldeb67

thanks you patty and sue

been really off track the last week, but today is a new day.

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wow how exciting reinhard!!!
best wishes

gratefuldeb67

hi patty! sorry i am a little late but,
Happy Birthday!!!

so great to see you are doing so well!!
i need to follow your example.
have a great day

gratefuldeb67

well yesterday i had a "green" for exercise but it was a failure for NoS..
i am glad that's over!!
so today's a new and better day

gratefuldeb67

thank you gk, patty and berry!! i really appreciate your support!! :wink: i still have the cold but it's not as bad.. so i'm going to try to make this week a regular NoS week and get back to some exercise, even if it's very light stuff.. i want to see *green*!!! :mrgreen: have a great day and week g...

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so a quick update before the weekend... since monday, i have been very good, with one exception.. yesterday i had a glazed donut.. i was really dying for one.. maybe because i am now a little under the weather with a minor virus and my body was just craving a pick me up? but i actually marked it as ...

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fantastic news!!! congratulations!!! and may i say, after one hits 40... boy is it harder to lose weight... it takes me 10 times the amount of effort to lose weight that it did years ago, now that i'm in my mid forties.. so great job!! keep it up and perhaps you will join our forum some day to conti...

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yesterday i had a success for exercise, but i failed on NoS because i waited so long to eat dinner, i was so hungry and i ended up eating seconds on soup.. it was a full second serving, not even a little one, so i'm marking it as a red day. over all, i had the same amount of food as i would have if ...

gratefuldeb67

thanks patty!

hugs
deb x

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i don't believe it had to do with the fact that it was an S day... i really only had 2 glasses of chocolate milk as my treat for the whole weekend... but the salt definitely.. i want to weigh daily, not weekly, so i will just get used to the fluctuations. i'm pretty sure i already dropped all the we...

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hi reinhard! i just felt like dropping in on your thread to see how you are and to say (in case maybe you may have missed my recent re appearance) that i'm having a very good start to 2012 and really feeling dead set on doing NoS wholeheartedly... i'm psyched!! last year was so bad.. it just feels g...

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i'm so glad that i'm trying to focus on my habits and not just weight loss alone.. today is one of those days.. i had such a great week and even the weekend was great. and as i wrote on sunday, i lost 2.6 lbs in about four or five days.. but, today i weighed and *every* pound was back on!!!! :shock:...

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what lori said

good luck jb... not easy at first.. so just recognise and accept and learn from the failures as they happen.. it will get easier the more you stick to it.
keep it up!

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thank you patty

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so this week has been really successful.. not perfect, but i have 4 green days for NoS, and 3 green days for exercise.. i also have been really a little bit broke, so i haven't been able to afford more than enough food for some very basic meals.. sufficient, but i am definitely waking every day, wit...

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thanks a lot sweetness!! ;) so i had a great morning today and danced non stop for 40 minutes to some really up beat music.. i was soaked in sweat after and felt so envigorated! and then i did 100 crunches with my ab roller thingy.. i'm happy to say i dropped 1.6 lbs so far this week!! it may just h...

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Hope you're having a green week. Hang in there - you can do it!! :) hi gk and sweetness! i am doing well so far.. i really feel motivated and committed. i didn't exercise yesterday but other than that, it's been green all the way!! i know it's only wed but this feels really great to be on track :D ...

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thank you patty

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idon'tknow wrote:I'm back in the 21 day club for the first time since February 2010

congratulations!

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just bumping my thread up the page so it doesn't get completely lost.. i've had a very nebulous month.. not much success and a lot of iffy "green" days which i somewhat guessed at, after the fact... the only thing about my habit cal's that is really accurate is my exercise calendar. i only marked gr...

gratefuldeb67

thanks sweetness

i hope you had a great christmas!
deb x

gratefuldeb67

good luck janie!!
don't beat yourself up please and just try to take one day at a time.
hugs!!

debs xx

gratefuldeb67

great plan!

carpe diem!

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Hope all is going well with you! :) thank you gk and sweetness. i had a few big personal developments/changes in the past month, and i've been a bit distracted from posting here, but i've been still keeping track with habit cal.. physically, it was a bit of a rough month. me and my son had several ...

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NoS is the perfect maintenance plan there is anywhere

congratulations and enjoy you freedom!

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yay!!!!! way to go janie!!!

hugs x

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thanks anne

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thanks sue! i hope this year is a much better year for you.
i like wayne dyer. thanks for the suggestions and thanks for your encouragement

have a good week.
debs

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hi all, yes rene, i like having a new thread. i had so many gaps in being here over the past three years, and especially last year when i was sick for 9 months.. i just decided it would be a nice symbolic way of starting fresh for me this time. it's been very nice having people write on here and giv...

gratefuldeb67

that is such a nice feeling!
congratulations!
keep it up

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it happened again :( another bag of chips.. i didn't eat all of them, but i had at least four servings and ate them in the middle of the night. i don't know why i think i'll be able to handle having so many in the house? from now on large bags of chips are banned. only single servings are allowed as...

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thanks patty

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hi anne, i just read back a few days worth of posts here, and wanted to say i hope you find a way to combat the (possible?) SAD.. it's rough during the winter, and you are really in a cold place. i'm impressed that you've tracked your "fail" days here anyway. it's easy enough to ignore them or just ...

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thanks guys :) well i'm just quickly posting that yesterday i had a total binge episode. i completely pissed off at myself this morning for letting it happen. just polished off an entire bag (not individual serving size) of chips. aside from that, i had a good day but i let myself wait dinner till w...

gratefuldeb67

hi gk

thanks so much for your kind words on my thread.
hope you have a great day.
deb xx

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thanks for your encouraging words on my thread janie :) i have to catch up on other peoples threads here, including yours. but i did read the thing about throwing out the donut a few posts back. that's amazing. it's a big thing, not a small one! good for you :) hope you have a great day and weekend....

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quick update: i weighed and measured, after several very good days of NoS (but not much still on the exercise front till today) and i am down a pound and, more importantly, i am down half an inch from my waist. it doesn't sound like much, but i know in time, if i stick to this, it will add up. i fel...

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thanks patty, heidi and sue :) just a quick update.. i had a very sketchy week. i really didn't eat too much, but several failures, because of disorganised eating.. there were a few times when i waited to eat a meal far too long, and then ended up having seconds.. one time i ate in the middle of the...

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Thanks for thoughts on filling foods, Violet. Wouldn't it be nice to eat salmon every day! I agree about the eggs. Not so sure what the effect will be on my cholesterol, but I have been having 2 lots of mornings hi osoniye :) i wouldn't worry about the eggs raising your cholesterol. i think excess ...

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i love not having a scale in the house.. i go to my mom's to weigh once a week or less. no matter where i had the scale "hidden" in the past in our apartment, i'd find myself taking it back out and being a slave to obsessive checking. better to be obsessive about being strict about the NoS rules and...

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thanks oohlala, tobiasmom and sweetness!! hugs :) well the last two days of the week, were sketchy.. i took an s day on thursday, because i had a very painful first day of my period and nearly no sleep at night before, since i had no ibuprofen in the house and my infamous first day cramps started at...

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Update: I gave up diet soda. I'm about 6 days in with my last one on Saturday this past week. I know that if I allow it, it will be a slippery slope. So, I drink water, tea and alcohol within the confines of glass cieling. It's the correct decision for me and I'm glad to put it on the permanent ban...

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thank you very much reinhard!!
i feel very positive this time, and determined not to get waylaid again, and i appreciate having the support from you and everyone here

seven years old!! wow, time flies!! i hope to hear her playing the moonlight sonata sometime soon..

debs xx

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wow fantastic news!! congratulations!!

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go for it!

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thank you reinhard, snapdragon and toosolid

today is my second success of the week!

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yesterday was a success!!!

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thank you ooh lala and snap dragon

my new thread is just, "debs 2011 check in".
i'm pleased to say that reasserting myself here, stopped me from eating in the middle of the night last night, and i had a green day for NoS and exercise!

gratefuldeb67

today's gone well so far and i just came back from a walk.. so i have a started the week with a green day for exercise :) feels good! i'm not sure if i'll check in daily or weekly.. i decided to let my old check in thread sail off into the sunset, and start fresh. i weighed myself saturday and my cu...

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i've decided i will start a new check in thread as well, and let my old one sail off into the sunset.. i want to really make a fresh start.

gratefuldeb67

thank you all!
hugs
deb x

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thanks anne, i appreciate that.. one of the things that's happening now, and has been affecting me terribly, is one of my closest and dearest friends has recently been diagnosed with bladder cancer.. it's been such a stress and worry. but today i really just decided, that it's not going to help *him...

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hi all, i have been awol and not doing very well this year. i don't even really want to go into the details, or start racking up the excuses why. i've loosely kept track of stuff with habit cal at least, but it's showing mainly failures and sick days for a long time now. next week i will be reassert...

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i just saw on my facebook notifications, that today is your birthday reinhard!!

i hope you had a very wonderful day!!
sorry for being so awol this year.
best wishes from me and richie

debs

gratefuldeb67

oh i'm so sorry to hear this reinhard

rip zippy x

gratefuldeb67

that's great to hear Hope is doing well and healthy!

congratulations!
good to hear you're doing well with your crunches!

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waves and smiles

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hi koopa, you might want to get one of those "ab roller" tubular metal crunch things.. they're great and not too much of an investment.. rather than straining your neck and arms, it gives them a padded cushion, and place to rest, and takes them out of the equation, and then you can concentrate on is...

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koopa wrote:Baby was born last week. She is healthy (thank god) and doing great. She has been home since Friday and has been doing all the things a baby should be doing.

Congratulations!

gratefuldeb67

thanks so much grammy and sue

i appreciate your support and ideas very much

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random, unplanned, opportunistic, and unconscious snacking is what we are trying to eliminate jocelyn.. if you know you will crave a sweet each night after dinner, either virtual plate it like two solid flesh suggests, or just allow yourself one planned fourth "meal" of fruit and treat it as that. a...

gratefuldeb67

that's wonderful! congratulations!

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hi jocelyn :) it's a great thing that you've figured out what is causing your gain. you are right, NoS is a wonderful maintenance plan. good luck with handling the nightly sweet tooth. you can do it! treats really do taste better when you have them in limited amounts. during the week, why not get yo...

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wonderful testimonial and success this year sienna!!!
congratulations

you are truly inspiring!!!
wishing you continued success and thank you very much for sharing

gratefuldeb67

oh boy, this month i am just doing terribly :( after tomorrow, which is my birthday celebration with my family, at an all vegetarian indian buffet, i am going to really focus on getting my exercise in. that's what i'm mainly upset about. i'm not sick anymore, and i am still extremely sedentary and j...

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you're welcome... yes, allergies is related to lung and spice stimulates lung chi, so that's probably why you're craving spice

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way to go!

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hi ginmarie :) good for you! in terms of NoS it's really not a technical fail though. i say good for you though, for becoming so much more conscious of the amount your body really needs to feel satisfied. me personally, i would have given the day a green for habit, but made a note on my check in thr...

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Hi Over43 :) I thought I'd respond to your post with some information I learned while in massage school. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, each internal yin/yang organ pair which represents one of the 5 elements in nature, has a corresponding, season emotion, body part ruled, and even taste and smell...

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I just reread how hard you are working on giving up the night eating. Maybe for you, a snack at night is a good and healthy thing. Reinhard says in his intro that he never said how many meals to have a day. You might need 4. Maybe your blood sugar drops at night and you need a pick me up. hi sue, t...

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go grammy!!!

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that's great ginny!! :) it's amazing how when we allow ourselves the freedom and choice to have these treats on S days, it often creates the exact opposite effect as trying to restrict them. we can take or leave them. i think it's when we try to over restrict, that we then rebel against that and ove...

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just a quick update: one, doing the switch to 2 percent milk didn't work as i was just adding more milk to make up for the fact that it was too watery.. so i am back to whole milk.. but i only have two cups of coffee a day on average so i'm not gonna worry.. i am however trying to not guzzle more th...

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Wow good job!! Congratulations!!

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My main problem on s days seems to be eating because I can rather than eating because I want to or am hungry, and I'm not sure that will ever go away. I dont tend permasnack often, or snack much at all, but I do eat sweet treats with a meal whether I am hungry or not! I guess having one treat with ...

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from one deb to another, welcome and good luck!

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that's a lovely wish sue, thank you! hugs :) well i have been having some night time fails still.. but not huge in terms of amount.. for example for a few nights this week i've eaten a few handfuls of blueberries. i've decided that on days when i've been compliant through out the day, on NoS but i s...

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hi and welcome :) the over doing it on weekends does taper off, but it really takes time to happen. i felt it changed a lot for me after the first 6 months to a year. even with some wild S days, not binges, but we ate a lot of stuff, i still lost about 17 lbs my first year, and i had a lot of failur...

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thanks kccc, strawberry, grammy and sue! :) yes strawberry, you're right. recently i had to help my son carry his school back pack in to the house and it's insanely heavy.... he insists on keeping everything in there and i've been trying to get him to lighten it up, but he won't.. i wanted to see ho...

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thanks thalia, i like skirts, but don't own any right now.. i like to wear shorts when it's hot. but the main issue that day was, i think, sun exposure and some kind of allergic reaction, though i'm not sure.. it might just have happened because my blood was pumping.. the itchiness was so bad!! i ha...

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ok i just went thru pages of posts on my thread in search of what i thought my highest weight was when restarting NoS a few years ago, and all i could find was that i had reached 247 lbs.. but, i remember that there were several months where i didn't write down my weight because i had been steadily ...

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great post and it sounds like a good plan to me sue!!
have a nice week

debs

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Oh..just wanted to mention that I have not had a heartburn problem since I have been using your suggestions. For that, I owe you big time!! thanks for caring! i'm so glad the suggestions helped you grammy!!! that's great news!!! :) you don't owe me anything... what goes around comes around... maybe...

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This is fantastic Clarica and very inspirational!!!
Keep up the great work!!!

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good luck taming your inner child today :) maybe when you start getting those messages, you should talk back to your "child" and tell it, "i know how much you want that treat, but it's not an S day. you can have whatever you like then" and give yourself something to look forward to... maybe even pla...

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thanks so much for your kind words sue :) yes my son is basically following NoS but he does have some snacks during the week. the main problem he had in the past was with over sweeting, and he's very compliant about only having treats on the weekend now, and often times he passes them up even then, ...

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great blog Buster

congratulations on your very successful month!
truly inspirational!

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i had a nice walk this morning :) the weather was perfect!! but i'm having a weird problem, that i often get, which i always forget about before i go walk, and don't remember until i finally am halfway through my walk.. i have very sensitive skin and take herbs which make me light sensitive.. i am a...

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welcome dainty cow! (i love that name! haha

)
i'm glad you didn't end up going to your car and crying!
NoS is the best!
good luck to you

debs

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who me, i think that possibly you're just having a bad reaction to the word failure. the strictness of the rules is good for people who don't want "grey areas" and are trying to develop the habit of eliminating mindless snacking. i think you mentioned that you have a very high metabolism before and ...

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wow sienna that is so fantastic!!! good job!!!

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that's good you voiced your feelings about this Colene.. i have to be honest though.. i personally didn't read anything judgmental in these posts... actually, in reply to your comment about "being hard pressed" to find an obese person who wasn't aware of how much they ate, actually i think you'd be ...

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mamamia, i see nothing offensive in what you wrote or prejudiced, and i applaud you for sticking to one plate. i have always saved buffets for S days so i would be able to have dessert or whatever, when i used to go to them. now i just don't go to them at all, because i'd prefer to have a quality me...

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hahahaha dave mc!!!

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i think what you did was fine.
good luck on NoS.

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