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Blithe Morning

Walked to work this morning. Slowly getting back on track with regard to exercise. Weekends are slowly, slowly, slowly getting calmer. I notice that I am no longer emotionally anxious for them to come even if I still do indulge more than what is comfortable for me physically and spiritually. I want ...

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I'm reading a book now called The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran AdriÃ 's elBulli a behind the scenes look at one of the most highly regarded restaurants in the world. I read a similar behind the scenes look about a year at Cordon Bleu and enjoyed it immensely so I thought...

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For the first time since I started, my weight has not dropped this week. I am comfortable here. I will continue with my inputs to see what happens to my weight.

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Trying to optimize fitness by timing work outs to coincide with peak metabolic processes is really only necessary if you are a high level competitive athlete or so I think. Whatever advantage we might gain in the short term from micro-timing workouts can be undone if this is not sustainable for us i...

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As for beans, I'm a big fan myself -- had leftover dinner beans (Cannellini and Fava with Brocolli Rabe and turkey ham) for breakfast this morning. I have to admit, though, that I'm often lazy and just open a can. I know it doesn't taste quite as good, but it's not bad, and I think still approximat...

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wosnes wrote:[I haven't looked at Jamie's recipe, but I used to love salmon patties made with canned salmon, egg, onion and crushed saltines. Yum!

It's similar but uses potato as the starch binder instead of saltines.

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Classic yes. But even so...

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I take a middle road. I eat as much fresh as possible, but it's not always organic. I am learning to make more and more from scratch, but it's stuff like gravy, baked beans (although I do use HFCS free ketchup), ranch dressing, taco seasoning, roasted potatoes and sloppy joe sauce. I can make my own...

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Made Zumba class last night. Today at worked, we hauled stuff around as the basement is still unusable from the flood. Everything is in different storage locations and we are trying to get like things together. Still feeling weak from the UTI so I will skip weight training tonight. I might go walk. ...

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I wonder how all those MIA posters are doing.

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Oh, how lovely! Where to, if I may ask?

I haven't been on a vacation that lasted more than a long weekend in years so I don't know if this will work. Is there anyway you can pick out your NWS events in advance, like going for tea at a special restaurant or getting a local delicacy?

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Hah! Great visuals!

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Start with the larger one but don't feel you have to fill it to the rim. If you are used to snacking you may need the extra room at first to make sure you are getting enough food to carry you through to the next meal.

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Now I just have to find a good sauce for the BBQ beans. The actual white beans themselves turn out good. I don't have that sweet spot of tang and sweetness though. :? Reviving this thread because I think I'm closer to the sweet spot. 8 oz Great Northern Beans 5 cups water 4 chopped strips bacon 1/2...

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Was compliant today but did not exercise. This UTI really knocked the stuffings out of me. I probably could have walked but just was not motivated. Tomorrow, back to exercising, even if lightly.

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Went out of town for the weekend. Too bad I got sick. Thank goodness for antibiotics.

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Bright Angel,

You will only see it on threads that have new posts since your last visit. It's that little yellowy-orange piece of paper looking thing to the left of the thread title.

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Go No S!

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I've used Cold Turkey as well when I was finishing up my thesis.

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Lunch meat out of the container? Yikes.

Maybe you could leave a copy of No S in the break room. I can't imagine eating that way being very sustainable.

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How wonderful! Over size portions completely ruin dining out. Sat. night Mr. Morning and I have reservations at a slow food place on our weekend away http://www.cornexchange.com/ I have already picked out my entree. I hope I'm not becoming a food snob. I do confess to becoming more particular, espec...

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Research update: I'm down to a new low this morning. I weighed 145.2 on the first Thursday, May 12 of my "research". Today, I weigh 133.2. My BMI went from 23.8 to 21.8. I have gone down a size in pants, from 12 to 10. I continue No S with my mods: Daytime vegetarian/vegan Half plate of fruit/veggie...

Blithe Morning

The fajitas were awesome. And easy. Slice up chicken breasts. Season*. Squirt with juice from fresh lime. Grill over med-low heat. Slice up red and orange peppers and red onion. Toss in olive oil. Grill over med-low heat. Serve with rice (seasoned, coarse chopped tomatoes, half a can of green chilis...

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When you are ill, your body does ramp up to fight off the infection. That's why you feel so tired when you are sick, because your body is working hard. It's been so long since I've had a bad cold that I don't really remember how I eat. I do tend to rest a lot. And I even take that awful night time c...

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"Turbo pump" at the Y this morning. My arms have felt weak-ish all day. Tonight's dinner will be chicken fajitas and brown rice w/ green chilis. Jamie Oliver's recipe of the week was Chicken Fajitas (and yes, I was inspired by this recipe) and his team wants you to post pictures on FB which, quite f...

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Your toast is so nicely cut. It really is a delight to look at these. Really, if this is the way you eat I wouldn't be concerned at all about people looking at you odd because you are a picky eater. This looks like good, normal stuff.

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If you want to build muscles, then do shovel glove or other weights and make sure you are eating plenty of protein at your three meals. People are all different and while one person may be able to sculpt beautiful muscles from kettlebells, you may need more resistance to build yours so you get the p...

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Three pounds isn't a disaster especially since some of those three pounds is water weight. To gain three pounds of fat, you would have had to overeat by 10,000 calories, highly unlikely in a week. I don't know how long it will take before you see results since I don't know how you were eating before...

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Too much ice cream on Friday. Too much white zinfandel on Sat. I had about half a glass more than the 2 glass ceiling and it made me dizzy. :P Having clear, pre-determined yet generous boundaries is a good thing. It's rarely a good idea to exceed them. Back on habit today. Meals are pretty much auto...

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Could you put the scale away in a closet? Or better yet, have someone else put it away?

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A knack means an acquired or natural skill at performing a task. I'm not really using the word properly in "knacked out" as there is no such phrase. I was trying to say that I'm not willing to do even the little bit of work it would take to make a Bento lunch. Most days I'm dumping a salad into a co...

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Toad in the hole. Bangers and mash. Spotted dick.

The British have the BEST names for food.

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Ice cream here too. I over did it last night and today ice cream is not appetizing at all.

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Bento doesn't look like my style because it looks like there's a knack and I'm knacked out right now.

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Ooh, things ARE going well, plan wise.

Although last night (I start my S days with dinner on Friday nights) I overdid it with the ice cream and not just by a little bit either. Better ice cream than booze, I guess.

My eldest is going back to college today so I am a little bummed.

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Not as bad as yours but I almost put my hair gel on as face moisturizer.

It's easy to do when you are tired or distracted with thoughts of the upcoming day.

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These are fun and adorable! It's almost enough to make me want to try bento and that's not my style at ALL.

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Still on track with habits including No S and exercise. Yesterday I walked with a friend. It was good. She's about 3 inches shorter than I am but really hustled! Today I went home for lunch because I was teaching class nearby. I plated my lunch (cuke/tomato salad in homemade ranch dressing, large pi...

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I've dropped six pounds while doing my action research on No S which doesn't sound like a lot but I was at a high end of the BMI and now I'm at the middle. That hasn't convinced DH though.

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I learned my lesson once when I thought I wanted them to "police" me. I actually told them the rules and told them to make sure I followed them. Duh. They thought it was a new game and wow was this going to be fun. After about a week, my oldest son started waving deserts in front of my face saying ...

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Keep in mind that talking about OPD's (other people's diets) is quite boring. It's right up there with vacation videos and wedding plans. This may be in part why your family razzes you so. If they start in with teasing without you bringing up the subject, just make non-committal noises and nod with ...

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Joyofsix wrote:You need to figure out a way to charge for an empty bag and call it a no-S snack.

Brilliant!

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Today, I received a certificate and patch for earning a Presidential Active Lifestyle Award. As an annual President's Council on Physical Fitness award loser in elementary school, this was something of salve to my chubby 9 year old self. Back in the day, the Physical Fitness award involved climbing ...

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My family knows but I don't talk about it. If they forget and offer something, I say "No thanks, I'm not hungry" and leave it at that.

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Weekend was typical. Today is going fine. Still wondering what happened on Thursday to make me so ravenously hungry.

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The good news regarding sons is that they do grow out of that brain dead-ness. I've heard (though can't confirm) that brain dead is better than drama you get with girls. DH still has to bark at the youngest one at 17 occasionally. When they were younger and in that state, he would bark at them and i...

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"Find life between meals".

What a great way to put it.

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I have three sons. Really between the ages of 11 and about 16, you should just quietly consider them brain dead. I know an 8th grade science teacher who had her science class segregated by gender because it was on a block rotation w/ PE. When it came to doing labs, the boys were pretty much hopeless...

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I posted a comment promoting No S. I hope we see an uptick in visitors.

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From NPR: As the United States struggles to cope with obesity rates, France is often looked to as a counterexample. Yet obesity is on the rise there as well now, and though French culinary traditions are often credited with keeping people trim, some worry those eating habits are under assault. Frenc...

Blithe Morning

Whew. Thursday was a rough day, hunger wise. Friday was a little better at least I wasn't hungry all day long, just at various times. Had a beer with dinner, plus a second consisting of half a soft shell taco. Had a small ice cream later in the evening. Of course, I'm up .8 lb this morning but given...

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Congrats on the retirement! I've been thinking about retirement and like a lot of Americans, I feel like it's the impossible dream. Perhaps I will look at going to part time work first. That sounds a lot more doable. And so sorry to hear about your son. My middle son had an emergency appendectomy, t...

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Ok, maybe No S doesn't need celebrities. But in the diet world, celebrities are the marketing ticket the diet corporations are looking for: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/fashion/celebrities-as-diet-spokespersons-a-two-edged-sword.html?src=recg Maybe I could make a Youtube video with my cat (Note...

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You are going to rock the maintenance, Grammy G. And I totally get where you are coming from w/r/t the secondary. In my world, I have rules and guidelines. No S is the rule, daytime vegetarian is the guideline. I've dinged the car today with mints. It's a tapeworm day where I am stomach rumbling, ca...

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Still compliant, still losing. Last night for the first time in I don't know how long I was tempted to eat after dinner. It was partly psychological, partly physical, I think. I am down another pound or so from my previous post and after doing a guesstimate calorie count of the meals I've been eatin...

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If you're worried about antioxidants, you don't have enough real problems.

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Certain snacks can trigger a binge in me. I no longer eat them at all.

Give yourself a year. Seriously. Eating habits are a tangled knot of hard-wiring, habituation, and social cues.

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Millie, I pretty much weigh all my ingredients when backing. Flour is 120 grams per cup. Sugar is 200. (Actually it's 196 but who's quibbling?). I forget what milk is off the top of my head, I have it written down somewheres.

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Why does it have to be either forcing yourself to eat food you don't like or telling people about this syndrome no one has ever heard of? Most of the people you interact with won't notice or care once you explain that you prefer your food plain. Those that do, just be polite but firm about your pref...

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This is freaky. Yesterday I went to a bridal shower and one of the gifts included a recipe for baked oatmeal. "Mmm," said I. "I've never heard of such a thing but it sounds good. I must find that recipe." And today, here it is.

Nice.

Blithe Morning

This is definitely a vacation. I think on vacations "sometimes" and "special" are the operative words. It sounds like that was the case for you. Well done!

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Interesting. He's ruthlessly utilitarian about this, approaching eating with an engineer's perspective.

I think I will stick to No S. There's enough latitude to accommodate our human foibles.

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john wrote:He

WHAT CAN I TRY TO SUBSTITUTE FOR SNACKING?????[/b]

Uhm... sex?

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Linguisticsgirl wrote:
That sounds utterly delicious!

It is knee-bucklingly, whimperingly good. In fact, I think I will make some up for this weekend.

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Still going strong and still losing. I'm down to a new low. Another two pounds or so and I will be at the point where I will want to maintain. I am at the age where being too thin makes one ... droop.

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No S absolutely will help. The longer you do it, the more of your life you get back. In addition I also suggest the following: 1. Limit or eliminate (I recommend eliminate) popular media, especially weight loss and fitness websites and magazines. 2. Build up your other interests. Use your new found ...

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Last week, I had the opportunity to meet Mrs. Art Hawkins who was married to one of Aldo Leopold's graduate students. Aldo Leopold is a conservationist who wrote some fairly important pieces in the conservation movement - The Land Ethic being chief amongst them. Anyway, Mrs. Hawkins was telling me a...

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Make your other meals as big as supper.

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Eat a big meal at 11:30 and then have a protein drink at around 5PM. If you like milk, have that. When I know I will be eating late, I mix protein powder with water, but then I like protein powder.

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Excellent article. His point - that no one strategy works for everyone - is certainly borne out here. We have people who eat four, three and two meals a day. Me? I'm good with three. I get hungry shortly after waking up and am rarely hungry at night so eating at 7AM, 12:30PM and 6:30PM are just righ...

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You are starting today! In the original version of No S, the mantra says No Snacks, No Sweets, No Seconds except (sometimes) on Days That Start With S.

You can practice the sometimes, if you so desire.

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That almost sounds like its a violation of some ethics rules. Is this like a multi-level marketing product?

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When you are dealing with a crisis, the last thing you need on your emotional plate is guilt and anxiety over whether or not your food is good enough. Our community is experiencing flooding and for about two weeks it was all hands on deck to get everything sandbagged. My eating was not the best thos...

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Habitcal is a great piece of software. But I too have never been able to get pass the red mark. I use Joes Goals. I have it set up if I am compliant I get a smiley. If I'm not, I don't - it doesn't matter what I ate. Removing the "punishment" has helped me stopped wrecking the car. True, I don't get...

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Life got unraveled since my last post. However, despite being in the field for three days and an over top 4th of July (oreo fluff) my weight has been stable. My new favorite treat is olives, pimentos and blue cheese chopped into a spread and served on a pumpernickel bread. A stout beer makes this do...

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Good for you, Uncle Al. I think you'll find it to be a sane, sensible way to eat better. I tend to think of dividing the plate (1/2 veggie, 1/4 protein, 1/4 carb) and day time vegetarian as guidelines while No S is a rule.

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This kind of title drives me crazy because the answer is No, exercise does not make you fat. It's wildly overestimating how much impact exercise has on weight loss that makes you fat. However, people being what they are will use this to rationalize not exercising because they don't want to get too h...

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Oreo fluff here.

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Of course exercise doesn't make you fat. It's using the exercise to rationalize poor eating that makes you fat. But try telling that to someone who doesn't like exercise and is looking for an excuse to not do it. How easy it would be to say that you aren't exercising because you want to eat better? ...

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What's that adage? Never buy a food that advertises it is good for you? Probably an overstatement but there's a kernel of truth there.

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Welcome back. Hang in there, Capnswife. Slow and steady win the race!

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What fun! This, indeed, is a celebration. All my best to the new couple.

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I don't think you've gone astray from the Pure Faith. It sounds to me as if you've made some sensible mods for your everyday eating. Regarding the low carb/no carb issue, I think just as there are people who are lactose intolerant there are people who don't do well on higher carb diets. It makes sen...

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I had this dynamic with my late grandmother in law. She was well known for her cooking and she came from a generation and place (mid-West) where cooking was one of the few ways a woman could get public attention and praise. Along comes me from the Northeast who came from a line of women who didn't e...

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Most of my pants are too loose. I'm trying to decide if I should bite the bullet and buy new ones.

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If I were a gazillionairess, I would hire Jamie Oliver to be my personal executive chef. Shoot, he wouldn't even have to cook - just plan the meals and one of his staff could set up the mise en place since I like the cooking a little bit too. Since I'm not a gazillionairess, I do plan otherwise I sp...

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The other thing you don't see in those old photos are the uberbuff, no body fat women. Most women were slim but not thin by supermodel standards. I think we, and I'm talking mainly to women, have such a distorted image of what a mature, adult woman's body should look like. The media shows us images ...

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Too solid flesh wrote:Errands. Newspaper to buy, library books to return etc.

This. Plus going to work when I don't need the car to go do a program or run to a meeting. I cheat, though. I catch a ride home with DH.

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I went out of town this past weekend. On the plus side, the Minneapolis airport has a nice 1.4 mile walking route laid out. A nice brisk walk was just the ticket after a long drive and flight. On the down side, it also has a fancy pants candy store so I bought a cafe au lait truffle for $2.50. It tu...

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First of all, you are not binging because of lack of self control and weakness, you are binging because of a complex interaction of habit, brain chemistry, and external cues that signal you to overeat. This interaction can be overcome, but it's harder to do and takes longer to change than most of us...

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I bought The End of Overeating yesterday just to refresh my understanding of the addictive quality of food. Mammals are hard wired to eat more of certain types of food, especially those with fat, sugar, and salt. Their brains showed certain "hot spots" in the pleasure center lighting up that is simi...

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Fascinating. I had no idea. My son picked up smoking in Afghanistan. Apparently, EVERYONE smokes over there mostly as stress releif. I don't think he smokes much anymore, if at all, but I will point him towards the tobacconists tobacco if he is going to smoke. I believe Dr. David Kessler addresses t...

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I had developed a metric for determining an S day, that I reposted below from a post from 2008. I don't use it all the time as most NWS days are fairly self evident but to help keep me honest when considering opportunities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My metric for special days: A) How often does this ev...

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I love your screen name. If you are able to lose weight by giving up chocolate for Lent, then I have no doubt you will see results on No S. And don't worry about slivers or trading S days, especially at first. Unlike most diets, No S works best when you start out in maintenance mode then make the mo...

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Crumpled the fender by 10AM. I really wanted some chocolate decadence last night for our anniversary but had creme brulee (yum) and cannoli (meh) instead.

So today at work there were two pieces of chocolate which I ate. It's a fail but I got my chocolate so I'm satisfied.

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Per my promise above, this is a graph of my daily weight with a trend line. These results are from strict vanilla No S with one minor fail, half plate veggies for most meals, day time vegetarian, at least 45 minutes of exercise 5 days a week that include two days of weight training at about 15 minut...

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Wosnes, I work with a gal who is about the same age as your daughters (I think - mid 20's?) and hadn't heard of Frances either. I actually don't think I read them to my children, the oldest of whom is 23; the only reason I know of them is that they were read to me as a child. I've been enjoying my c...

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I've never eaten at Cheesecake Factory. Are their portions just that big that they end up so calorie inflated or what?

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I've started doing more walking, mainly because the bike trails are underwater.

Per Urban Ranger, walking is as much transportation as exercise for me. I am going to attempt to walk to work 2-3 times a week.

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I've fasted but not for weight loss or health reasons. Fasting is a great spiritual discipline but I admit I'm skeptical about all the reputed health claims. When I do fast, I essentially skip breakfast and lunch and break it at dinner.

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