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4/10 - Success (No S) & S-Day (Exercise) Yea, success! Things are going much more smoothly now that I added the nuts to my morning. I know there are discussions going on the general board about drinking water instead and not adding mods, but I really think this was the best move for me. Looking back...

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4/9 - Success (No S) & Success (Exercise)

Fought off cupcakes today. The cafe downstairs claimed it was National Cupcake Day, but that's just silly if it doesn't fall on an S-day!

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Welcome back, Amy! Your trip sounds wonderful (again, except for the laundry).

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Really well done on 4 consecutive days of success! I was reading one of your older posts and can relate to the mentality of going from all successes to all fails. I've had a bad few days so will use you as inspiration to mark it and move on :D Hey, I had months of fails (2011-2013 when I re-gained ...

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4/8 - Success (No S) & Success (Exercise) if I really, really want one, I allow myself to take the red This is so positively down-to-earth, I like that! I think part of my problem the first time (2010-2011) was that I felt restricted and deprived. "Eating Less" has taught me that it has to be a choi...

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wosnes wrote: And probably more permanent since there's nothing to go "off." What you do to lose the weight is what you do to maintain the weight loss.

Exactly! Who can ever be on a "diet" forever?

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Thanks, KL. We had pastries in the work kitchen on Thursday, and cupcakes and brownies today. But I resisted!

The key for me is I go in and check them out and if I really, really want one, I allow myself to take the red. But generally they just aren't worth it.

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I should just start copying your daily meals. Probably the number one change I need to make to my diet is adding vegetables. It is amazing how easy it is to eat three meals and not include any FOOD.

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Had a good weekend. I cautiously allowed myself to have a snack on both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday it meant I didn't have room for dinner; on Sunday, it was dessert, and honestly, I didn't feel so good after I ate it, so I may try to keep the No" in the "S" days. The S's are always optional o...

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Eeyore, congrats on your successes and lessons learned!

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4/6 - Success (No S) & Success (Exercise) 4/7 - S-Day (No S) & Success (Exercise) Yea, a successful weekend! 8) What is nice about Saturdays is although I was very hungry in the morning, I can hold out until lunch because I can have it early. :D And dinner can be early too, although it wasn't necess...

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Wow, look at all that green!

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Go, MJ! Being a size 4 isn't worth it if you have to obsess about food all the time. For actresses, keeping small is part of their job, and the really successful ones can afford personal chefs and trainers. For models, I just saw another article come out about the horrible things they have to do to ...

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4/4 - Success!
4/5 - S-Day

Yea, so good to be back in the green. Especially since S-Days are no fun without having an N-Day under your belt.

If I remember, tomorrow I will add my exercise to my check in. I did that on my old thread and it was helpful to see them together.

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Just went back and read my thread from 2011. It was very educational, especially the end of it. It is interesting how I go from "all in" to all fails. Even this time around, I started back up on Feb. 1st, and No S was the easiest thing in the world. I suspected it was a honeymoon period, but geez, h...

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Reinhard strongly discourages taking away an S-day as "payment" as it opens up a line of credit to use in the future. Look at what you learned about the one plate rule and consider your failure a success! Now for the rest of your life you know you should stick to food on a plate, and all that knowle...

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Yes, I have 7-8 hours between breakfast and lunch, and after trying to adjust to the hunger for a couple of months, I have decided to add a morning snack. (Although since there are no snacks on No S, I have to call it second breakfast, even though all I am eating is a small serving of nuts.) It has ...

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April Fool wrote:Instead I will have a normal dinner tonight, concentrate on having a successful week and simply avoid the scale until July 1 because apparently weighing myself is hazardous to my waistline.

Exactly!

Best of luck to you!

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The layered salad sounds yummy! Sometimes when I'm trying to be good, I turn my turkey tacos into a taco salad.

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My goodness, Sweetness! It sounds like an area better run in daylight.

Keep safe!

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Congrats, Jasper!

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Welcome, and best of luck on the journey!

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Congrats on being on of "those" people!

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4/3 - Fail

Let's just call these failures a break from No S. And now I am back. There are pastries in the kitchen at work and I had my regularly scheduled nut snack instead.

I said nut SNACK; stop giggling!

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Seal meat soup? If people didn't know you were in the Artic before, they sure know now!

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4/2 - Fail

I was fine until I finished dinner, had some extra beer in my glass, and decided to have Easter chocolate with it.

Jonas - No BS and I will be here all week. Please tip your waitresses.

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Sorry about the scale, but you sure enjoyed that cake!

And loose pants are more imporant anyway.

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4/1 - Fail Ah, I had such plans for April. Getting on plan with No S and getting more exercise. So I started with a fail in No S and a rest day for exercise. So far for April 2nd, I have a fail for exercise, but I'm on track with No S. And I have water at my desk! :) No BS , thanks, but that weight ...

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3/29 - S-Day 3/30 - Fail 3/31 - S-Day Another fail. Saturday involved a bit too much together time with DH, and I needed some wine and chocolate to get through the day. I somewhat made up for it yesterday by having an N-Day except for some Pepsi with dinner, which I only drank for the caffeine since...

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Thanks, No BS! Have a great Easter weekend yourself! :D 3/28 - Success! Today I am so glad I take Friday as an S-Day, because instead of our regular breakfast day, we have Polish Easter breakfast day. Oh my goodness is there good stuff in our kitchen!! I have my monthly weigh-in on Monday and it sho...

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Good luck tonight. Remember that while your friend can "force" you to take things, she can't actually force you to eat them. So let her put all she wants on your plate and just leave it there. Eventually she'll figure out that giving you food you don't want means that it will just go to waste. Work ...

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140 people? Wow, do you know them all (as in could state their names and at least one personal fact about them)?

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3/27 - Success!

Yes, life is so much better with second breakfast. When I started getting hungry yesterday morning, I had some almonds and was fine until lunch. Now I just need to make sure I keep myself supplied at work so I don't need crackers out of the vending machine.

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3/26 - Fail I'm having a snack right now. :evil: Sorry, but I am tired of being hungry every morning. I just can't get enough down at 5 a.m. to last me until 1 p.m., so I am going to add a morning snack from now on. I'm thinking of bringing in nuts to have around 9 a.m., and I'll just have to determ...

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3/25 - Success! This morning as I walked to my work building, I happened to think about the cupcakes I brought in last year for my boss's birthday. Then I thought, "Man, I want a cupcake!" Then I thought, "Geez, I hope no one brings in cupcakes today!" I don't know if I could resist. :shock: Turns o...

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Sounds like a healthy attitude. Live and let live. You do what you gotta do, and she'll do the same.

Congrats on the new exercise attitude too. It should make you feel good, not be something to obsess over. Kind of like food!

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Uh, oh. I hope that Snickers wasn't my fault!

I'll be more careful in the future, I promise!!

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3/23 - S-Event 3/24 - S-Day Yes, it will somewhat of a miracle if I lose any weight this month. Saturday was another S-Event (my anniversary) and I enjoyed pre-meal chips and salsa, and a junior hot fudge sundae after dinner. I was somewhat disappointed in the sundae as it was one of those where the...

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It took me about a year to lose the 16 pounds, but like I said, I had a bad attitude, so I was on and off in compliance. This time around my goal is 23 pounds in 11 months. I fall under a couple of the "hard to lose" categories, so a half pound per week would make me very happy. Like you said, the m...

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3/21 - Success! 3/22 - S-Day Almost ran into trouble last night at dinner. I made myself turkey tacos, which I looooooooooove. I figure a proper dinner would be four of them (yes, I know, at some point in my life a proper serving will be 1 or 2 with a half plate of veggies, but I'm not there yet), s...

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Welcome, Chris! I don't use shovelglove, but I recently read about someone's experience and it made me want to start. I don't remember what this person's results were, but they were definitely inspiring. As for the No S Diet, I lost 16 pounds on it during 2010-2011. I ended up going off the diet and...

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Congrats on your progress (both physical and mental)!!

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3/20 - Success!

Yesterday was much better. I had enjoyed more sleep.

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3/19 - Failure

First day back from vacation, I was hungry and cranky in the morning, and after my lunch decided to go ahead and have a Snickers bar. At least it did make me feel a bit better, so the fail wasn't a total waste.

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3/13 - Success! 3/14 - S-Event 3/15 - S-Day 3/16 - Failure 3/17 - S-Day 3/18 - Success! Well, there you go. I experienced every variation of the No S Diet in the last six days of travel. On 3/14, my brother hosted a dinner at an Irish restaurant, so I took it as an S-Event. I was very good and did n...

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3/12 - Success!

I'll be traveling starting tomorrow, so I won't be checking in for a few days. It will be interesting to see how No S does on the road. I have to remember not to ask for a soda for my complimentary drink on the plane.

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3/11 - Success! Last night DH brought home dinner late, but I resisted having any of the chips and dip leftover from Sunday. But because I had been thinking about them all evening, I put some on my plate with dinner. It was rather silly because I didn't really need them, but once I could have them, ...

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Decadent! That's the word I was trying to think of. Eating plain melted cheese is decadent!

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Oh my goodness, if I want melted cheese, I always find something I can put it on. I suppose this just adds carbs, but I don't think I could let myself get away with just eating plain melted cheese. I have to pretend it is a meal, you know?

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Happy birthday! :D You can do it! Just imagine where you want to be on your 37th birthday. Still on No S and losing slowly but surely, or jumping around from diet to diet looking for a quick fix? I dropped out of the No S Diet before and really regret it because I undid all my progress. This time I ...

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3/9 - Success!
3/10 - S-Day

I didn't get my sundae after all. DH brought me some snacks before dinner, and then after dinner I was too full to have any dessert. Oh, well. I know where the ice cream place is, so we can always go another S-Day.

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I had a couple of sick days in February, and I found a few chocolate chip cookies with my decaf made me feel MUCH better.

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I was not a dark chocolate person in the past, but I have learned to enjoy it, and I buy the highest percentage I can find. I think I can get 84% at my grocery store. It really helps regulate the amount I eat too, because at that percentage, one or two squares is plenty.

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Congrats on your 1.5 pounds! I am aiming for 0.5 lbs. a week, so that would be right on track for me.

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Happy Birthday, Middle Son! Enjoy your cake, Amy!

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Congrats on your red-free week!

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3/7 - Success! 3/8 - S-Day My fellow No S'ers will find this amusing. I went to a meeting Wednesday evening and sat right in front of a big plate of donuts someone brought it. It was okay, because I don't really like donuts that much and I wasn't hungry. But just to make sure, once the top layer was...

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I've been doing Shovelglove 5 days a week for a month now, and even with the lightest of sledgehammers (6 pounds) I have developed incredible abs! That spare tire I've carried around for 20 years is finally gone. Better even than a Jillian Michaels DVD. Hmmm. Makes me want to go buy a sledgehammer!...

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I liked the part about "Future You" being considered another person. I do that to myself all the time. "Hmmm, if I do this now, Morning Me won't have to rush around trying to get it done on time. But I don't feel like doing it now, so screw her."

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I don't really like pancakes, so I would have very much preferred your curry.

Re: the drips. Hmmm. We're watching you!

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Jonas Jonasson wrote: I was wondering how much cheese I could actually place on a plate and was tempted to take the silly greens/fruit off my plate.

Maybe someday you'll have a "only one kind of cheese per meal" mod. In the meantime, enjoy!

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Nicest of the Damned wrote: Yes, I know I've ruined your appetite. That will help you make it to dinnertime without eating anything. You're welcome.

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One of the best parts about the No S Diet is that after messing up, we can get right back on the wagon. No punishment dieting afterwards. That's a pretty good feeling. Once I got back into the 21-day Club, I'm not going to worry too much about keeping a streak alive. My goal is to have fewer NWS-Day...

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Strawberry, I am coming over to eat at your house! I want a big salad, cornbread, tacquitos, and mini tacos (although I don't eat beef, so please put ground turkey in mine).

I may have to stay for a couple of meals. That seems a bit too much to put on one plate.

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Way to go! That is exactly how you do it. Acknowledge that the hunger isn't real and choose not to satisfy it.

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3/5 - Success! 3/6 - S-Event Today is another boss birthday, and I had a piece of the fruit tart I brought in for her. So a very nice S-Event and the rest of the day will be a regular N-Day. Today finished my week of exercise because I'm taking the next two days as rest days. I've been a good girl s...

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Another cornbread lover here, but I never have it nice and fresh out of the oven.

DH doesn't eat it, so it would just go to waste at home. I have it whenever I can in a restaurant (especially that sweet cornbread in Mexican places!).

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Great post, ZippaDee! Sometimes we're so worried about how other people see us that we don't realize how other people see us. As a wonderful mother. As a valuable contributor to the community. As a inperfect like everyone else human being.

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The no solitary alchohol sounds like a great mod. It would have saved me a bunch of calories last night!

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3/4 - Success! Yesterday was a bad day, like Friday, but unlike Friday (an S-Day for me), I couldn't just eat whatever I wanted to make myself feel better. So I debated just having a failure, but my goal for March was to have fewer NWS-Days/Failures, so how was that going to go if I failed in the fi...

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Skelton, I had one of those S-Day "I'm not even hungry" snacks yesterday. The good news was that I realized I was just having it because I could, so it wasn't mindless. I think it helped reinforce for me just WHY I am not allowed snacks during the week. I have found what helps me is because I can't ...

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3/2 - Success! 3/3 - S-Day My co-worker almost caught me this morning and offered me some chocolate chip cookie bars. :shock: But I caught myself. I thanked her very kindly and told her I wasn't allowed any sweets during the week. She said, "Good for you!" :) Pretty good S-Day yesterday. I had desse...

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That's right, Amy. New month, new start!

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2/28 - Success! 3/1 - S-Day Weigh In Day! In January, I was a pretty consistent 193. For my February 1st weigh in, the scale said 192.5. My goal for March 1st was 191. This morning's weigh in was 190.75. Success! :D And that was a month with two Sick Days, one Special Day, one S-Event, and one Failu...

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I started back on Feb. 1st, and I've had the same experience. Much easier the second time around. In my case, I think it is (1) because I know it works, so (2) I'm not fighting it this time.

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Oh, I forgot to report my first back on No S Diet dream. (I remember having these from the last time.) At one point in a dream last night, I had a tortilla chip and then remembered, "Oh, no! This is a snack!" But then in my dream it was Sunday so it was okay. Sometimes I would have to wake up before...

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I admire your ability to follow No S while in a deep freeze. I would want to stay inside and fill up on hot food all day!

Sorry if I missed it, but what kind of dogs do you have?

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Go, Amy, you can do it! Your positive attitude will carry you through!!

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2/27 - Success! Yesterday was a good day without a lot of hunger. I wanted something more after dinner, but I knew it was a false signal so I waited until it went away. One and done! Today is the last day of my first month back on No S. No big insight to share since I've already admitted snacks were...

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Sorry, I have no tips for giving up the snacks, but I did want to say that the No S Diet definitely worked for me. I lost 16 pounds before being an idiot and going back to my old way of eating (lots of snacks and sweets). Now I am back and knowing it works is what keeps me from the snacks. I want to...

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2/26 - Success! I had a big free lunch due to training (had a turkey/swiss sandwich and pasta salad) and thus made it to dinner no problem. Enjoyed some leftover takeout for dinner (after some Walk It Out on the Wii) and was fine all night. But it wasn't so much that I couldn't eat my breakfast this...

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Jonas, as someone who just had a "hungry fail" that then led to a "chocolate fail" later on, I know where you're coming from! 8) At least we can laugh at ourselves. It seems some of the people who have trouble with No S take everything very seriously and a fail is the end of the world. Now I know ev...

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Happy Birthday!

German chocolate cake is definitely worth the fail.

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Stopping by to say hello! I re-started February 1st, and snacks definitely seem to have been my main problem. I agree with you about kids these days. I don't know if people really think the kids need all that food, or it is just nice to keep them quiet by giving them some goldfish. I do the same wit...

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2/23 - Fail 2/24 - S-Day 2/25 - S-Event There you go. I'm not perfect after all. 8) I was doing well on Saturday. I was hungry after lunch, but after a while the feeling went away so I was okay. We went out to dinner, and I had some seafood stew that was pretty good and fish and chips that weren't. ...

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I returned to the No S Diet on February 1st, and 21 days later, I'm still here and going strong. :D I am glad to be here to renew my membership in this club! What I learned: 1. Snacks were definitely my biggest problem. I really haven't been craving sweets that much. 2. I read some of the archives a...

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2/21 - Success! 2/22 - S-Day Thursday was a weird eating day, but went better than I thought it would. I had a small breakfast and then attended a funeral. We went out to breakfast afterwards, which I considered my lunch even though it was 10:00 am, and I usually have lunch at 1:00 pm. I couldn't ea...

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2/20 - Success! Okay, I kind of cheated at dinner, but I still consider it a success. DH and I went out for Thai food with a former colleague of his who was in town. I started with soup, and then used only a small part of my plate for my rice and curry (virtual plating). Well, I ended up not having ...

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2/19 - Success! And boy did I have to fight for this one! Lunch was a "mindful" salad (the cafeteria is trying to offer healthier choices), which filled me up fine, but I was very hungry by dinnertime. When DH got home, I suggested we make these frozen lasagna rolls I had. So I got them all ready to...

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2/15 - S-Day 2/16 - Success! 2/17 - S-Day 2/18 - S-Day (holiday) Yes, I took Presidents Day as an S-Day. I wasn't going to, but snacking helped me be more productive at home than I would have been without. I ended for paying for it because DH and I went out to dinner after an appointment, and I wasn...

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2/14 - Success! Wow, good to see I am not alone in the pants situation! :lol: Another one of my motivations for getting back on the No S Diet was the fact that the two pairs of jeans I wear the most were wearing out in a very necessary area. I have smaller jeans, and darn it, I was not buying any ne...

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I don't really like the concept of self-sabotage. For one thing, it usually makes people feel worse, and feeling worse is not associated with success. Plus, I just think it is natural for the habit to put up a fight. It is a neurochemical pattern. This phenomenon is called "extinction." The old beh...

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Great response to the noodle question! Much better than the alternative:

"Are you on a diet?" "No, I just want a normal sized serving of noodles and not enough to feed a small village!"

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