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Hi, As of today, I'm in (well, okay, I did it before but I didn't post it). In three weeks I lost three pounds, which might not seem very impressive. On the other hand, I've been exercising regularly and I tend to put muscle on pretty easily. 17 more pounds to go. Actually, I'm going to measure my p...

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Day 21: SUCCESS Yay, I got through the first 21 days, and no true failures to boot! (Well, I did it before, but I didn't post it.) B'fast: oatmeal, yogurt Lunch: my department's potluck--I didn't eat a single sweet. Did some virtual plating, namely because my first plate had plenty of green salad on...

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Day 20: S-Day Well, okay, this was an S-Day. I abided by the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law, which is to namely say that I still ate too much. My day kind of got screwed up by what I think must be the largest woodpecker in the world (the explanation of this is kind of boring so ...

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Day 19: S-Day / SUCCESS (because I didn't just freak out and eat everything in sight...I was keeping myself pretty busy today) bfast: oatmeal, homemade veggie fritatta, cup of unsweetened chai (from a mix) lunch: 6 inch Subway turkey and cheese sub, no mayo or dressing, all the veggies (not trying t...

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Hi there, First, I have a question. I was driven to break troth with No-S twice this week for illness reasons (namely, a severe and chronic gastritis, which even despite prescription medication can sometimes only be soothed by food. It may sound by a lame excuse, but try out my stomach when it's ang...

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Day 18: SUCCESS bfast: oatmeal, yogurt lunch: BIG hamburger (1/3-1/2 lb), a few fries/onion rings (Even if this did fit on a plate, and a smallish one at that, I still can't help but feel a bit guilty and piglike. My boss took us out to lunch at a place known for its burgers, and I consciously picke...

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Hi, I agree with Pangelsue. I think you have to be at a point in your life where you really want to take the responsibility for your health. I feel that many of us ran to programs like WW because we somehow didn't want to bear this full responsibility, or we felt that we could buy motivation and dri...

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Day 17: SICK Well, I was totally surprised--I got the Cramps of Doom again. I don't know what the heck is going on, but as soon as my health insurance transfer is finished, I am going to the doctor. Until last month, I'd never had cramps this bad. I took acetaminophen early this morning but towards ...

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Hi Zoolina, Sounds like you're staying on the right track, even if you did overeat once, so good for you! If I come home starving I can have trouble with overeating too; I'll eat the first thing available. I really find that pre-cooking or chopping vegetables really helps--when I come home ravenous ...

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Day 16: SUCCESS bfast: oatmeal, yogurt lunch: homemade vegetable-cheese fritatta, broccoli, half of a small sweet potato, soynuts mini-meal: apple, soynuts, coffee w/creamer dinner: homemade vegetable-cheese fritatta, broccoli, half of a small sweet potato, apple, yogurt exercise: 30 min zen hamster...

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Day 15: SUCCESS bfast: two packets oatmeal lunch: vegetable chili, piece of multigrain baguette, skim milk, orange dinner: 1 packet oatmeal, yogurt, 1 small sweet potato with smart balance and cheese (yes, kind of a weird dinner, but everything was in raw form and I was starving...luckily I cooked l...

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Day 14: Sick Day (Failure?) Breakfast was normal, lunch was on a plate (but was some pretty fatty stuff), dinner...Well, dinner I went a bit haywire. I had to take some painkillers to stop my throat from hurting, and acetaminophen wasn't enough, so I had to hit the naproxen, which unfortunately irri...

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Day 12: Saturday (but No-S): SUCCESS I exercised plenty too. Sorry, not much time to post. Day 13: Sunday ( S-Day ). Er, ok, it was an S-Day but I still feel I ate too much. I have to plan better. It was a rest day, exercise-wise. Day 14: Today. So far doing okay, but I'm getting sick. My neighbors ...

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Hi, Something that's helped me to figure out portion sizes for my short woman body was to learn about the caloric contents of the foods I normally eat. I also initially measured out the amounts so that I could see by eye how much food I should be eating if I wanted to stay within a certain caloric r...

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Day 11: S-Day / SUCCESS Why success? I didn't go nuts, that's why. I told myself that I'd only do a single S (dessert) at one meal (at a party), and I stuck to it. B'fast: oatmeal, yogurt, soynuts Lunch: piece of chicken breast, brown rice, mixed green salad w/balsamic vinegar, orange mini-meal: app...

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Day 10: SUCCESS b'fast: oatmeal, soynuts, apple lunch: ~1/4 of sweet potato, split-pea vegetable soup, small piece of chicken, 1 piece whole-wheat bread mini-meal: ~1 cup split-pea vegetable soup, 1 12 oz. skim milk latte (didn't finish it) dinner: oatmeal, soynuts, orange (kind of weird, but it is ...

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Hi Zoolina, Sorry to hear that you were stressed and had a binge. I know how easy it can be (almost automatic?) to do. One thing that I read once suggested that if you feel a binge is somehow inevitable (say you're going to eat 2 huge pieces of cake) that you can initially try to say "I CHOOSE to ea...

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Day 9: SUCCESS b'fast: oatmeal and yogurt lunch: 3 smallish samosas, 1 Luna Bar mini-meal: apple, soynuts dinner: homemade split-pea-vegetable soup (hmm, have we seen this before? I'm still not sick of it...), small sweet potato, orange Okay, I'll admit, I had a few sugar-free sour candies from a fr...

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Good for you for sticking to this (even if you did have a bit of fudge, you're doing really really well). I don't know if I could have done as well as you if I had all of that stressful stuff going on, so go you! Your posts are inspiring to me.

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Day 8: SUCCESS b'fast: oatmeal, apple, roasted edamame lunch: homemade split pea-vegetable soup, part of a sweet potato (maybe 1/4 of a medium one), small piece of marinated chicken breast, orange mini-meal: nutrition/granola bar, skim milk latte made with unexpectedly bad coffee; had to remedy with...

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Actually I DO take the Urban Rangering seriously; take a look at my postings. I have been long before I ever heard of the term. I love walking and hate driving. My amount of walking has been somewhat decreased on account of my moving recently to a much less walking-friendly place (you can probably s...

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I've pretty much been able to manage hunger thing (my diet issues are psychological, not physiological) so here's what I've found through years of experimentation. (1) Distinguishing between normal, acceptable hunger and serious hunger. By serious hunger, I mean feeling dizzy, nauseous, faint, and s...

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Ah yes, the logs. Well, we were trying, as part of a volunteer effort, to build a staircase on a hiking path where there was too much erosion. The steps to hold the earth in place were logs. We had to move the logs and then strip the bark from them, a task much more difficult than I had anticipated....

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Day 6: S-Day. I don't know if I can call it a success per se. While breakfast and lunch were fine, I felt I was pressured into eating some ice cream when I didn't really want it (I only ate half) and then felt stupid for not having the guts to say no. I also ate too much bread this evening. (For me,...

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Day 5: S-day. SUCCESS Why do I say success when it was an S-day, and I guess by default a free day? I didn't go crazy. I was out of the house at work and I couldn't just eat everything. I've also cleared out most problem foods from my home, so I couldn't just start munching a lot. In the past these ...

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Hi Zoolina, Thank you for asking. I'm doing a lot better, and having useful, understanding input from people like you has helped. I find that posting my food intake helps me regulate it. I know at the end of the day there's going to be an accounting and it makes me consider what I'm eating carefully...

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Day 4: SUCCESS bfast: oatmeal and apple lunch: homemade veggie-turkey chili, 1 slice bread, apple, yogurt mid-afternoon: coffee w/creamer dinner: homemade veggie-turkey chili, 1 slice bread, cube of cheese, yogurt exercise: walked to work (a bit over 3 miles, approx.), also was running around today ...

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Hi Zoolina, As a person who is overly self-critical/perfectionistic, I can say from experience that you're being overly self-critical/perfectionistic. One cup of cocoa when you've been keeping on track for over a month? It really isn't a big transgression. I don't really know what to say about the c...

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Day 3: SUCCESS bfast: oatmeal and yogurt lunch: 2/3 of a pulled pork sandwich, non-creamy coleslaw (vinegar), green beans (not cooked in pork back)--happy that I had enough willpower NOT to eat the whole sandwich! coffee w/creamer dinner: big salad of spinach and broccoli slaw, small amount of soynu...

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Hi, I'm re-starting a No S 21-day streak after doing really well on it for a month, then making some big life changes (namely moving across the country for a job, far away from all family or friends) and falling flat on my face for a month, diet-wise. I guess in a way I'm in a similar position as yo...

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Day 2: SUCCESS bfast: oatmeal and yogurt lunch: lentil-vegetable soup, part of a multigrain baguette, apple, skim milk mini-meal: nutrition bar and apple, coffee w/ creamer dinner: spinach and broccoli slaw salad with a bit of balsamic vinegar dressing, feta cheese, and soynuts; 1 slice whole wheat ...

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Good luck with the job search. My partner/boyfriend was out of work for about six months and it was really rough for him emotionally. Congratulations on not gaining any weight, and yeah, the exercise is a really good idea, especially when you're looking for work. Yeah, duh, that's pretty obvious, bu...

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That's a very inspiring post. Thank you.

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I think I'll start again after my gastritis and Thanksgiving week fiascos. Here we go: Day 1: bfast: oatmeal with some peanuts sprinkled on top, coffee with creamer lunch: veggie-meatball soup, multigrain roll, orange, skim milk dinner: small Amy's bean and cheese burrito, 2 apples, broccoli slaw wi...

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Ditto!

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Yep, I do. Personally with home exercise I've had better luck with activities that require no equipment, e.g. vigorous dancing to music. Plus, having recently moved, I don't have a sledgehammer, nor do I have a car yet to drive to a place where I can buy one. Maybe I could ask to borrow one from my ...

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Thank you everybody. I feel much better and more motivated with your support. I got back late yesterday from my TG holiday. It is funny how spoiled I became from living close to huge airports. I'm flying from a small regional airport now, so I mostly cannot get direct flights anywhere, so I was stuc...

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Yo KCCC, Your suggestion sounds really good. I think I'll try it. I do have to agree with you about how awesome cooking is. I started to do it a lot more a few years ago (due to Atkins, ha!) and it is amazing how easy it is to make healthy, yummy food at home. I feel much better when I eat home-cook...

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Hiya, In summary, Friday I was sick and actually had to eat more (if you read my other posts you'll know why), and Saturday and Sunday were both S-days (I still think I ate too much). Today: B'fast: oatmeal made w/skim milk, some peanut butter stirred in (yummy!) Lunch: Cheese vegetable frittata, pl...

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Hi, I've got two questions and a few answers to your comments. First, I think Wosnes raised an interesting point about learning to love and accept myself as I am (and yes, you do have a good memory--I do have the seriously obese little niece who is in dire need of a good role model). My question is ...

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Hello,

Thank you all for the support. I'm glad I can find some people here who actually understand how I feel. I don't have time to type in all of my thoughts now (I'm at work) but your caring makes me feel better.

--H

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Hi, I guess I've been venting a lot recently. Sorry. I'm just trying to get back into the swing of things but I've had trouble lately. Well, last week I ate properly for four days. The fifth day I screwed up big time, but that was partially because my gastritis really, really acted up horribly in co...

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Hi, I agree that you don't want to sugar-coat or soften your mistakes. After all, a big part of No S seems to be that of taking responsibility for yourself, and facing up to the fact that you can pretty much only blame yourself for being overweight. The whole binary system is nice and simple, and de...

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Whoops! Well, I thought I would have been able to claim a success. Life doesn't work that way, though. Perhaps this fits under Reinhard's "do what you need to get better" clause. Anyway, as I said in my previous posting, I was (and still am) extremely fatigued. I also have been experiencing some of ...

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Breakfast: Yogurt Oatmeal w/various seasonings, sprinkled w/roasted soynuts Lunch: Spinach, mushroom and tomato salad, with: sliced leftover homemade lemon-herb chicken feta reduced-calorie balsamic vinegar/olive oil vinagrette (yes, I know the general attitude around here towards "diet" foods but i...

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Hi, I understand the whole smugness thing. I sailed along pretty well for a month. Then I moved from a liberal big city on the west coast to a small town in a southern east coast state for a new job, with no friends or family, and my smugness bubble was burst! The change wreaked havoc on my eating h...

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15 November 2006 Whoops. I accidentally started a new topic titled "14 November 2006", when I really meant to keep it in my check-ins here. Sorry. Breakfast: Oatmeal (w/various seasonings I added) 1/2 of teeny bag of peanuts on the oatmeal(I think it was a 200 calorie bag in total) Yogurt (w/vanilla...

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Hi Pangelsue, Congrats on coming back after all of those disruptive life experiences. I know how you feel. This past month of re-settling across the country in a new job, away from family and friends, really sucked. Correspondingly, my bread consumption skyrocketed. My weakness is carbs. The other d...

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Breakfast: 2 slices whole wheat bread w/peanut butter (the natural stuff--only peanuts and salt. Yum!) 2 clementines coffee with creamer (I only put in a spoonful, not half the container) Lunch: Whole wheat pasta Homemade mega vegetable sauce (tomatoes, onions, garlic, mushrooms, spinach, broccoli s...

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I totally hear you about a plan that addresses psychology...Other regimens would infuriate me because they solely focused upon calories or types of foods. I always wanted to say "Hello! Our ability to do addition is not the problem!" I'd say you might want to experiment a bit and see what you can ha...

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It's impressive that you're staying strong, despite having your mom in the hospital. Good job!

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Having forbidden foods really can drive you crazy! I totally hear you about the denial issue. When I did Atkins for six months, I craved carbs so much that I would binge on high fiber cereal. Not the most normal sinful food, but hey, it had carbs, it had crunch, and it was there. I'd snarf down two ...

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Wow, After moving across the country for a new job and having my eating patterns go to Hades for a month, I ate properly instead of stuffing myself! It really felt good. I exercised, too (1-1.5 hours of walking, much of it carrying a lot of stuff). I guess this partially compensates for my dismay th...

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Wow, I'm back after moving across the country and having my routine and eating totally disconbobulated. This is probably the first day in a month I've really eaten properly. Yuck! I actually eat four meals a day, just well-defined ones, as I watch my portion sizes pretty carefully (each meal is smal...

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The calories in smoothies can rack up surprisingly fast, so I'd watch out. Plus, unless you incorporate the peels, you'll be losing out on a lot of the fiber that can stave off hunger.

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Hi, I think it can be kind of difficult to start up a new habit, so I wouldn't beat up on yourself too much (this coming from the girl who beats up on herself all of the time....Do as I say, not as I do....) Is there any way you can incorporate some exercise into your daily commute? I know this isn'...

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Hi Pangelsue, I totally agree with you. Big changes sure can be hard! It stinks to realize that sometimes you do have to make some sacrifices for what you want. I guess in life you can't get something worthwhile without a lot of time, effort, or money. At least that is what I have found. A comment a...

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Hi,

Thanks for all of the support. While I didn't eat as well as I normally would this weekend, I didn't go on a binge, either. I guess I have to understand that when there are big changes in my life, I can't just expect everything to fall into place.

Thanks again.

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Hi all, For a month I was doing really well with No-S. I was exercising regularly, I was eating right, and the inches flew off. Then I hit a wall. Let me explain my situation. I hit the wall when I moved across the country (west coast to east coast) for a new job (just a few weeks ago). I don't know...

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Hi there, Well, I spent the last two weeks not eating very well--not junk food, but just too much. I just moved across the country to a new job with no friends or family around (okay, cue in the violins, right). These past two weeks I've been zipping around trying to get all of the household stuff I...

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Hi. I was feeling quite discouraged because the numbers on the scale seemed to not be changing at all. Today at the gym they took my measurements again, only a month after the previous measurements. Turns out I lost 2.5 inches on my hips, 1.5 inches from my waist, 2.5 inches from the thighs (that's ...

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Was gone from Friday night to Sunday night, and I think I did okay. --Friday-- first two meals were home-cooked stuff with veggies, can't remember exactly. The last meal of the day was salmon, jasmine rice, and asparagus (at a restaurant, so the portion sizes were probably too big) plus two popovers...

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Goals: (1) To find a good career that makes me happy (2) To continue to stave off depression with proper exercise and eating habits (3) To not have food be an enemy (already after a few weeks doing No-S it isn't anymore--and I hope it will stay that way) (4) To not have to suck in my gut all of the ...

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Toro, I saw this recently: http://www.webmd.com/content/article/115/111806 It says frequent weigh-ins seem to be correlated with more weight loss. I haven't personally looked up the original publication, so I cannot vouch for the validity of this conclusion (I haven't inspected their statistical met...

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Thanks for the support. I'm not vegan, but as you both acknowledged, there's plenty of things with no animal products that are tasty, e.g. peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Maybe I'll try the black coffee trick to slow down. Last night I was drinking decaf though (not particularly high-quality stu...

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Hi, Eating out with my friends can be so difficult sometimes. This evening after having a very yummy, healthy meal (it was vegan, yes, vegan dishes can be yummy) we went to a place to have coffee and dessert. I groaned to myself, worried that I would kill my weight loss... Since I'm going on a littl...

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Amen on the peanut butter, Pangelsue! If anybody looks at this, please note that I allow myself 4-5 meals a day (obviously smaller than if I had 3 meals). It just works better for me; I just make sure the amounts are controlled so that it isn't just unlimited snacking. Yesterday (didn't have time to...

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day 2 (of my check-in reports--really I've been doing this for almost 4 weeks) Breakfast: plain oatmeal w/almonds, cinnamon, small amount of sweetener plain nonfat yogurt Lunch: Whole wheat pita with 1/2 tomato, reduced-fat feta, 1 veggie burger 1 medium nectarine small amount of almonds (small hand...

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Wow! Thanks for all of the support. Those are some helpful suggestions. I guess I've been No-Sing for approximately 4 weeks now. The first two weekends were fine. The last two weren't. Last weekend I did throw a party, and while I did shove off most of the food onto other people (and I did have plen...

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Hi there, I've been lurking around but finally decided to try this daily check-in thing. First, please note that I allow myself 4-5 meals per day (remember, Reinhard said that the actual NUMBER of meals wasn't necessarily fixed to 3), because this works better for me. It doesn't lead to uncontrolled...

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Thank you, Pangelsue. That sounds like a good idea; at least it will make me pause before cramming stuff into my mouth when I'm not hungry. It is good to hear from somebody that actually understands the situation.

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Hi Mommashell, Speaking from my personal experience, as well as what other family members have experienced, I'd say one thing: maybe it is good to pay attention to this. Here's my story: my parents fed me healthy stuff, but didn't pay enough attention to making sure I got enough exercise. Then I got...

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Dear all, I am writing here to express my general frustration regarding overeating on weekends. If anybody has any helpful advice I would greatly appreciate it. First, I'd like to say that I was pleased to have found this website. I had essentially come to the same or similar conclusions as Reinhard...

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