Everyday Systems

Tessytwinkle

Success my first green day of stage one. Very hungry this afternoon, wavered a lot. I think one of my worst traits is that somehow my brain can convince me that I can always start again tomorrow!!! Anyway, was wobbling badly so looked up my thread to inspire me and found Kats advice. So started sing...

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Well done Sinnie, one good green day under your belt. Forget about the weight and dieting as much as you can. Concentrate on eating well and enjoying your pregnancy. Think how strong your habits ill be after the baby.
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I'm in awe of your steadiness, a green week is a good plan. We need to go back to smaller steps and goals than 21 days at times. The bigger steps beckon. Hang in there and I wish you a strong green week
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Hooray for magic jeans

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I'm following you Sinnie, we can do this. Take each day at a time. I've set myself a challenge of three days green in a row, that is my first goal. You might want o try I too? I know you can do this, focus on your teaching, think of how much you are sharing and supporting your students, give yoursel...

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Hi Kate. How are you doing? Hope all is going well? I love scrambled tofu - yum!!
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Totally brilliant. You deserve big hugs and loud applause. I am sending you both in a virtual way

Keep going, you are really on a roll and seeing some real gains
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Brilliant well done. Weekends settling down is a major achievement. Great stuff. Now have a great week to follow it up!!
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Oh goodness I've been there spooning syrup into my mouth as if there was no tomorrow :) however a lovely rich soup is much much more nourishing. Good planning though on your part, maybe i shall make a soup for next week. Enjoy yours. It looks like your events could be very challenging, planning is p...

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Hi Linda. I know what you mean. One big joy of noS is I no longer have good or bad foods just plates of food :) also I am really feeling hungry between my meals and I am trying to train my brain to relish that feeling. It means I have not blown it and that I might be losing weight and that I am in c...

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Thanks Linda. I am feeling determined. I think I shall go back to,logging my food in the week, there is something calming about it. Sunday has gone. No structure but not free fall either. Next week is an important challenge for me. First stage. 3 green days in a row. Bring it on

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Hi Kat. You know your own advice is so wise, thoughtful and helpful you really can't go wrong if you listened to it as well as me

I nearly gave up on Friday but I remembered our pact and it kept me going, thanks.

Also brilliant to hear your urges are going

have an urge free Sunday
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Hi hippy dippy. I love your white pants story. I feel like this about jeans. FOr years never wore them then one day found brilliant pair in a shop for larger girlies. They felt so great, i felt confident and sassy and I love them. Yet I waited years before I allowed myself that feeling. So sad how w...

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Dear sisters of the sane you definitely keep me sane! Kat you are right I definitely am changing, I can really feel it, just have to keep going. Hippy dippy, yes, I could often do with a "second lunch" I am a bit of a hobbit :) but with better feet!, Linda thank you for your support, I am trying to ...

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Terrible Friday. Bad fail. Pick myself up and start again. Aiming for a quiet s weekend.

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Well done for hanging on today. It seems that we really need meal regularity at the moment. I don't know if that is always going to be the case. But I have noticed that we often are at risk of failing when our regular meal times are disrupted for some reason. You did really well to remember the milk...

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Well done! I am so impressed with how you keep on track, even when you have a bad day you pick yourself up and stabilise yourself really quickly. You are doing so well :) you have so much on your plate ( life wise not food wise) :lol: yet you still find time to get in your exercise! that is such a s...

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Lucky girls to have such a great mum

Lucky dogs too!!!
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Oh dear Sinnie, never mind, just think about how you used to eat and how far you have travelled. Pick yourself up and tomorrow will be better

I am always struggling at the moment but every now and then the sun breaks through. So I am sending you hugs and wishing you a sunny day !!
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Hi clarebear, isn't it so wonderful that your days are settling and your hunger at work is easing. This is so brilliant I am very pleased for you. Your weekend plans sound good, something to look forward to. Oz is getting closer every week, exciting!!
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Hippy dippy those Hershey kisses get you every time :lol: good attitude though. I am learning lots from you. Today was good green day. I am feeling pretty stunned that I am getting through the rest of this week without bingeing or snacking. I find it hard to believe. And I am feeling hungry between ...

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Hi there. You are doing great. Breakfast is really important to me. Like you I sometimes get too busy. But it always backfires on me and I just get too hungry and obsessed by food later in the day. Can you leave out something the night before? Or at least get everything ready bowl etc so that you ju...

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Hi JW. You are really sorted on this. I am so impressed. You give me such hope that I will start losing someday soon. This really is a way of life. Good luck during your busy time.
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Wow, that's real progress. Your living the dream!! I am so pleased for you. You're getting closer to your hundred days. I think if your face looks thinner you re defining losing weight. But like you say, it will take time. You're doing it all the right way though
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Thank you dear fellow travellers for your kind words, nourishment for the soul after a tiring and rather frustrating day. Sadly today is not really a green day as I nibbled some nuts this evening. . Which I am rather annoyed about now. But I'm very proud that at work I did not nibble or binge. So ju...

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Hey Kat you're on autopilot wow!!! You are so on top of this. Very big smile on my face
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Sinnie I am so proud for you. This is really impressive. You are going to b such a great mummy (mom). I know how hard your work must be but you are facing it down and establishing your own rhythm and control. Very powerful. Certainly an example for me to follow

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You are doing brilliantly and you will love Australa. I have been twice each time lost weight and felt great. Your habits are getting hard wired. Come Xmas you will be a very different clarebear

I am really impressed by your progress particularly your determination.
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Oh dear Hershey kisses are very addictive I am sure

and once I have opened tortilla chips no matter what sized bag I seem to eat them all so a little tortilla Craziness is completely understandable to me! But as they say what a difference a day makes

have a good one tomorrow
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Hippy Dippy. I love your posts. You always make me laugh and in amongst your funny words are so many wise ones

sooooo glad your hunger beast is starting to relax. You are taming that beastie!! Go girl

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Oh dear. I know how you feel :( I think one of the hardest things to cope with is missing a meal. If I get behind with food everything unravels. I think we will get better at this but for now we are still vulnerable. But You are doing so brilliantly it will quickly get back into shape :) Have a good...

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Hooray :) :) I managed to get through the day without bingeing. I bought a special small carton malted soya milk ( I am allergic to cows milk) and I drank it about 4 pm. Then somehow held on. I am feeling very pleased with myself. I really believe this support group and all of your kindness and wise...

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Wow, I checked my thread before I set out for work today after last nights despair and already two wonderful responses from two wise sisters . Thank you so much. Hippy dippy. Yes, you are so right. When I stopped to think it over, in the past there is no way I could have started back after such a lo...

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Oh dear. Terrible day :( Started ok, felt I was doing really well then had a very tiring afternoon, I was and am completely exhausted. Had a long teaching meeting came back to my room and was desperate for food - 4 pm always terrible time for me at work as I need snacks bad - well I think I do!! Any...

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Overall a good weekend. Nothing horrendous. In fact rather casting around to see what I can eat! What's that all about?! Went a bit overboard on my home made custard tart, but nothing scary. Weird, maybe my brain is settling. Mega challenge tomorrow, return to work, the place where it can all unrave...

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Hi there. Thanks for this thread. Been helpful to me as well as you :) I just want to chime in about the smaller plate thingy. I do now use a smaller plate. That is my only mod and it helps me because it signals to me and everyone else I eat with that I am serious about this. It has also made me rea...

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Hi Andi

Wow, you are doing so well to manage a big move like that and stay on course. I would have been floundering I am sure. Have a good week and enjoy your new home.
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Hi Sinnie, hang on, I am rooting for you. A return to teaching is very stressful. It is hard to explain I know. But I am a teacher too, and I am very anxious about going back tomorrow. Your day will be very demanding of you and your eating may become erratic at times. But you are trying so hard to e...

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Hi Kat. Hang in there. We can crack this. I am about to go back to Work and 3 pm munches is very real danger so great to hear you are holding up and resisting. I shall endeavour to do the same. This will work, I am willing you on
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Hi clarebear. Wow what a week you have had. Very good days and a major battle with the chocolate monster!! You won - hooray

you are so getting this sorted. Swim fit sounds good. I am going to,check it out. Hope you are enjoying your weekend.
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Hi Linda. You are such a star, what a great week you had last week :) hope you are having a good weekend, and glad your moms there. I bet she can see a change in you? " uncomfortable, unnamed and unresolved emotions" get me very time too. Food is so much more than hunger. Enjoy your moms visit Tessy

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"Supper tonight was filling and delicious and I don't actually need anything else to eat" how brilliant that you can write those words. Looks like you have had a good week and you are finding your own path. Well done
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Hey, way to go, you are going to get yourself seriously fit. You have got to grips with the gym, keep going. it looks like living healthily and being fitter is so important. Plus you have lost weight!! wow, you are so impressive. I am so pleased for you and will follow your path, slow and steady. It...

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Well here I am back from my holiday refreshed and feeling a bit wiser and stronger. While I was away I watched three of the bbc programmes called the men who made us thin (fat). Funny I knew a Lot of this stuff but when you put it all together it is enraging grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I am now so so determi...

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Thanks for hugs and all kind words. I am comforted and encouraged. I love the idea of being part of the sisterhood of the sane. I am now on holiday for week. Peace and reflection and lots of walking. I am going to do noS in the week. But with one S event a day. Which will be a cake or treat with eve...

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Have a great weekend clarebear. You have so earned it

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Hi Linda. Great to have anther green day. You are really cracking it

Hope our weekend plans go well, they seem really sensible and respond a lot of our general anxieties about S days.

Have fun
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Kat we are going to do this. We've taken years to reach this time. We must hang on. I will stick it out if you will

I listen to your advice. So should you, it's wise, funny and thoughtful!
Enjoy your yummy shortbread,
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Thank you Linda and okbyxmas. Your words are very comforting. Kat - ok here heres the pact. I will not give up and neither will you. Lets try another month. See how I goes? By the end of September we will know more about ourselves and we will be in a different habit space. And some of that elusive w...

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Well I've had a bit of a day! Saw the doctor, she is happy overall about my op, thinks it was successful, so that was brilliant :) wants me to to back to work slowly as I am still healing and still so tired, reduced hours - nice thought but won't be possible. I don't have that kind of job. Weight wi...

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Oh dear Kat. You could be me talking :) I know deep in my heart I am thinking if this does not work what then.... It is a very bleak and scary thought. I also know how you feel about going back to work. It is my biggest fear. I have been off for weeks on the sick and everyone - including me!! Thinks...

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You are doing really well, keep it up. I love your plan to get healthier by Xmas. I really want to do that too. I have had some odd dinners too but like you have felt ok about it. I will check out your blog. Good luck with everything
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Yay, you're back on track. Well done. Success food wise and exercise too, great stuff :) parenting such a responsibility, but what a great role model you are for your girls :) glad they like their new school. Moving house is stressful huh!! I would have eaten very thing in the cupboard by now :lol: ...

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Wow JW you did so well to resist temptation when food has probably always been your first solace when times get hard - and it sounds like a really frustrating and hard time you have been having. Good on you

hope it is all sorted now.
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The end of cake-Fest. Hooray!!! You're back in the green zone, well done
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Snacking with boredom! Why does that happen? It's so annoying how your snacking brain is always ready to take any opportunity to snack! Grrrrrr
Hang in there
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Hey Hippy dippy you are losing some weight!!! How brilliant :) Forget about the muffin, think about the big picture. This is working for you, gives me hope too. Well done, now relax about weighing again till end of September. Freedom from scales is a good Thing. Parental visits on the other hand can...

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Hooray, I'm back in the green zone. You are all so supportive, JW, Linda, Kat and Hippy dippy, it just makes everything seem possible, thank you , thank you :) thanks for the book tip Linda I will try to find it. Hippy dippy I hope if I am ever in a burning building you are here to drag me out!! Kat...

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Oh dear the beastie won :( I held her off for a day but she was right there waiting for me when I woke up this morning! And because I am tired and scared about going to the doctors for my op check up on Thursday in case it has not worked, and because I know she will ask if I am losing weight when I ...

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Hey Linda. You did brilliantly to not distract yourself with food. Food is our Comfort blanket. We reach for it without even thinking about it because that is how we have always coped. You are breaking that dynamic down. You should be very proud of yourself. And you are right. Tomorrow will be bette...

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Thank you Kat. I needed that quote too. We must steel ourselves and focus just on getting the habit established.
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Hi Rea, oh dear I know what you mean about having your cake and hating it :lol: Food intolerance wise I have bad food allergies and find I am so much better if I stay off certain foods. It really sound like you might have a wheat problem. If you want to see for sure stay off all wheat for 2 weeks at...

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Hey there Hippy Dippy. Your cabin break sounds divine. I'm a sucker for a hot tub!! Mini breaks are fine and should be S days in my book. A good part of everyday life. We're aiming for balanced everyday life right :) Good luck with smaller plate. Sometimes mine is filled quite high, but overall it f...

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Oh dear. I know how you feel. I did that too. As you say it's not the food amount it's the change we're trying to make that comes under threat. But it will take time for our new habits to kick in and it is that mindless eating that will respond to a changed way of being. I am just starting to realis...

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Welcome to the board. Good luck with it all we are all on your side. I have started posting my food , never done anything like this before and understand jws feeling that posting each meal is too much about food food food. But for me it has been rather revealing about what I do eat!! So helpful that...

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Oh my goodness I love dates!! I like medjool but my favourites are degle nour dates but natural ones not in glucose syrup - yum

I could eat dates all day. Had forgotten about them, will try them for my weekend treat, although like you Bonnie may have trouble with moderation

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Success, just! Had flapjack packet in my hand for a long time and in my mind for even longer :( but I resisted so a good result I suppose, although can still hear the siren call of the flapjack downstairs in the cupboard even though I am in bed!!! Breakfast - walnuts, tomato and carrots and plums fr...

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Hooray for Mondays

funny I always thought it would be the other way round, hooray for Saturdays! Have a good week, you are doing so well

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It would have had to be a very good delivery to beat your cooking

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Wow, well done. Brownies are VERY tempting. Let alone fudge topped ones!,your are right. You are making great progress

have a good week
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Oh dear

thank goodness it was an S day. You are really changing though. It didn't feel right for you in your head or your body. Monday will be feel so much better

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Nibble, nibble, nibble, snack, snack, snack, snack........ Phew glad that's over! roll on Monday

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Woke up this morning and though lighten up girrrrrrl :) :) JW you are so right. Easy to forget I was out of control 7 days a week before!! I need to take care of my inner beastie, love her and nourish her and most important learn to live with her. Saturdays let out of her cage she is particularly wi...

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Sounds like you are getting your days so sorted. You are such an inspiration to me. I read your posts and feel so sure the path is right. I am stumbling along but still convinced by your example and all the others that this is the right path.
Hooray for nonfat mocha

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It's funny in the week I am so pleased if I can say I have I succeeded at noS. on the weekends I just feel rather defeated by myself. I am thinking I need to try and make my weekends as much like. Week days as possible but if I have something then that is ok. But gonna try and stop seeking out sweet...

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Thank you oolala. I long for that day

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Hi JW really well done. 50 no fail days! Awesome. Glad you are back on the wagon

holidays are for fun and relaxation. I suspect all my holidays will be red!!

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Hi Linda. What an achievement. How brilliant to be able to post 21 days and join all these other determined and successful noSers. Awesome. Keep it up!
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Hey!!! Fab compliment

way to go

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Success!! This was a struggle today. I was feeling really tired all day. I think it is because I have started doing some work at home ready to go back to work in a week or two and it is tiring me out. Still recovering from my op. plus walked for 30 mins. So feel desperate for a quick pick me up. But...

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Hiya Kat. How strange your breakfast urge is gone. It is good to feel in touch with our body's needs. I think we are all different but we are so brainwashed to follow particular patterns of eating and cultural conventions that we lose touch with our essential selves. GLad you are scales free too, it...

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Hooray!!! 21 days and counting. You have made it and that is brilliant. Very pleased for you. I have watched you get stronger everyday and I really think you have made a Commitment to this way of eating at a deep level. You may have failures at times as do we all :( but you have already changed, you...

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I lost lot weight after my first baby. Only ate ham, grapes and Turkish delight! Then did really well on diet pills in the days when doctors would just prescribe them. Since then every possible diet, no fat, low carbs, no sugar, fat points, calorie counting, grapefruit diet, apple before every meal ...

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Hang on in there. The weekend is just round the corner

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Oh dear. Poor you. Just hang in there it took me loads of failed attempts to get really going. It will happen. Try to get a good green day under your belt today then there is a weekend to relax a little. Then set small targets, one day at a time. One week at a time. Then 21 days. I still have not ma...

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Oh dear. What a shame. I know how you feel. But it was not a major WTF binge and you know what went wrong and why. I think you will be back on track tomorrow. With no damage done

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Hi Jw, those really are sweet dreams!! Made me chuckle. Thanks.
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Hooray, well done. Sooooo hard to pass up stuff especially when everyone else is eating it round you. Social pressure very hard to stay strong against. Great stuff and a little something in the fridge for later. A win/ win I would say

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Today I am back on the green phew!! It was hard going. Still got some lovely cherry frangipani pie left that everyone was eating. I did the old trick of saying never mind I can start again tomorrow. Just have a piece and when it's gone you will start over and do it better. Aaa argh!! But still I hel...

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Well done clarebear. So good to see your resolve paying off. It's great when you can really enjoy your food and not tip over into excess. Giving up the scales is scary but it will be a big step forward I feel. Keep going

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Phew. Well done weight wise. Salty snacks and alcohol are dangerous if delightful indulgences - but holidays are there to be enjoyed and you did!! Your post reminded me of how many years worth of 21 days I have behind me reinforcing BAD habits!!! Sometime forget it goes both way. Hang in there Annie...

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Well done Annie. Flaxseeds sound good. Do you just sprinkle them on your food?
Hope your neck and arm are easing off pain wise.
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So glad 'sanity' has returned. Hang in there we are all rooting for you

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Oh no. That's what I am afraid of scales wise. Sad for you :( I know it is hard when trying to do this as a life change but need to lose weight too. I hate scales that's why stopped using them. Although makes me anxious not to. So I think I shall try monthly. That will capture any real change rather...

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Hooray :) You are doing so well. 21 days will be a really strong milestone in your life changing journey. I think you should have your mocha. As mocha lite in the week then mocha lush at the weekends. No good feeling deprived and as though something is always missing. You are a mocha gal :D accept i...

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Welcome B. like all of us you are no stranger to dieting. But this is very different. We are all here to support you and travel alongside you. Like you snacking is a big issue for me and i have always been arbitrarily modifying diets :D but these rule are simple and wise and yet not easy to do at th...

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Goodness where would I be without you all. Thank you all so much for your kind words of encouragement. I really needed to hear them as it all felt familiar and lonely yesterday. So I have picked myself up and will start again tomorrow on my 21 days challenge. I really need goals to aim for. But like...

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I know how you feel. I had a failure day yesterday and I am all over the place today. But You really can do this. Tomorrow will be the start of your next strong green run i am sure. Good luck
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Failure. Only 1 day away from my 21 days and I have stumbled badly. In a way I could feel it coming at the weekend. Today started badly. I got caught up in things. Did not sit down a quietly enjoy my breakfast. Ate it while I cooked food for later. Was not sure where breakfast began and ended. Then ...

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Oh dear. You've had a hard run of days. But you were really going strong before and vacations are challenging let alone adding in car accident!! You said before things were falling in to place. They still are. Tomorrow will be better

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