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Blondie

Hey, folks! Covergirl checking after a super-long absence! I doubt anyone remembers me from the old days, but I was the Woman's World magazine cover story chick back in 2008. I'm the same weight I was when I did the shoot (and with a one year old baby!) and I really have taken the No S principles as ...

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Just to let you know, I posted the quote below 5 and a half years ago, and I'm steady at about a 20-25 weight loss from then...keep it up, you can do it!

"And my pants are falling down today. I had picked them up from the dry cleaner's and left them in my office, then put them on when I got here ...

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Who knew?

http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-sein ... ity-secret

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What I found is that once I had the habit down, then I could fool around more with stricter rules. Meaning, you may not lose at first, but you'll train yourself to skip dessert, snacks, and seconds, and then you can try to cut calories by eating healthier, cutting out junk food, etc.

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Covergirl checking in :D

Just want to say hey and let everyone who might remember me know that I'm still very No S...the snacks and seconds habit is 100% solid...sweets creep in a bit if I forget to eat lunch and figure a snickers bar is lunch (ick, seems gross to write that!).

Knee is good ...

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Not a recipe, per se, but last year I saw pumpkin angel food cake at Whole Foods.

My mom is a pumpkin (well, really, pumpkin pie spice) nut. She adds it to anything. Pancakes, coffee, ice cream...

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Hey Debs. You rock.

Blondie

But the real reason French women don't get fat is because they are obsessed with being thin.

This was my experience in Italy, too.

Blondie

3 pounds in 10 days IS a lot. Because this is not a crash diet, you aren't going to see huge numbers in a short time (7 pounds in 10 days is huge numbers), but you will be able to sustain the way you eat indefinitely, once you establish the habit. Don't give up!

Blondie

Hey Debs and Rein,
Yeah, I think, because she ultimately rejects the idea that perfection is sustainable, it's a good lesson.
Rock on.

Blondie

This article, although it's sort of anti-No S iits micromanaging, has several aspects that made me laugh and think of No S, not in the least was the paragraph that starts with "After the third week, the hunger pangs went away" or something to that effect. :D

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/16 ...

Blondie

My "no stalking bulletin board members who go silent" policy was sorely tried in your absence

Haha, sorry, you could have emailed me! Just been busy--new job, etc. No knee improvement, unfortunately, though.

My mom insists on keeping the mag on her coffee table, and I cover it up every time I ...

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Also, thanks LA. You're sweet

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Nah, I actually just logged in for a tune up just today! Sorry to be MIA

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(make sure to send her a copy of Woman's World

http://coverawards.com/tag/stephanie-saible/page/2/

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Heyyyyy!

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flipturn wrote:Carlos Santana, a well-known functional-fitness authority/trainer in FL, has used sandbags and fire department dummies, for years. He has clients flinging those 100-lb. sacks around as though they were 10-lb weights.

Plus he can really wail on that axe.

Blondie

Seconding peanut butter. Yum.

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Excellent.

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Hey Reinhard: JINX!

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One of the oldies, Kevin, is a diabetic (Type I, if I recall). He started out doing 4 meals a day to make sure his sugar and insulin issues were under control, but I think eventually switched to three meals, vanilla NoS.

Here is a link to his posts:
http://everydaysystems.com/bb/search.php?search ...

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Odd thing happened, my SO tried to force me to eat half of a Hostess Cup Cake after dinner - by trying to physically shove it in my mouth - I didn't eat it; I still can't figure out why that happened.

Meaning you can figure out why he or she tried to shove a cupcake in your mouth or you can't ...

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I find this phenomenon totally hysterical.

Depending on the store, at my present weight I am usually a 4-6, which I think is kind of low. I remember being smaller and wearing an 8. I actually have a suit that is a size 2. Come on. I'm 5'4" and around 130-something right now. Ridiculous.

Blondie

May 10: tasks failure (forgot to give my daughter her eyedrops -- a much hated procedure on all sides -- till after she fell asleep)

And then once she was asleep, you pried her eyes open and plopped them in???

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Is that you, mom??

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I wonder what it means that people are responding with a degree of hostility to my comment simply because I'm the only one who thought it was a sugar cereal. Hmmm.....

My comment was a joke, I didn't intend any hostility, and I didn't read Bright Angel's comment as ...

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But my guidelines have been if sugar is in the first three listed ingredients

Is that you, mom??

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Wow, that is a frustrating thing for your husband to say and absolutely very well done on your part! Someone was saying that bingeing is really a punishment to your self, of which this is a great example.

Hang in there, things will start to shift your way

Blondie

(((Debs)))

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Hey Noel,

I'm hoping you are okay.

Ditto.

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PS: Day 2.

Been slipping a little, just need to refocus.

Blondie

Thanks, Joanna and Reinhard.

I do swim, but my ability to bike has been effectively destroyed. I usually bike to work (about 5 miles round trip), but barely. My right leg is almost passive on the pedal, and I really only do it because it's quicker than walking and less annoying (parking and ...

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For me, there is nothing like exercising first thing in the morning to start the day off right. I feel better, look better, think better...

Well done.

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Deb! So happy for you, my friend. Ah, life.

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Excellent, Freaky! 100+ pounds is phenomenal. Wow.

And thanks for looking at the cover. Agreed, I look ridiculous, especially for a tomboy like me.

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Sweets.

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Hey Jan, glad you made it back north safely--I hadn't really been following too closely, but I know you weren't all that thrilled with my former hometown...anyway, keep up the good work, as usual!
M

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anniecbee! anniecbee! She answered you!!

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I lost about that much. And they put me on the cover

It really was amazing how many calories the snacks and sweets added up to.

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Yeah, I'm kind of over the scale, too, for now.

Cheeks, I'm still kind of giggling about "Cake Week" from the other thread. It's brilliant. Did it work? People brought you cake all week?

Blondie

This is funny--my dad just saw the thing and had two comments

1) that the real me is better-looking (he's my dad, he has to say that) and
2) they seemed to have changed my eye color. My eyes are blue in real life--I guess they look dark here?

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Hang in there Lisa.

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Oh, ok...so I told Mom.

I wonder if anyone I know will see it on the newsstand and recognize me. It sounds weird to say that no one will (I know a lot of people, I have a LOT of family, etc), but seriously, it doesn't look like me. I'm not saying it's a bad picture, it's fine, it just really doesn ...

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Thanks, Deb (good to see you around here!!), jaxhil and Too Solid Flesh (and Reinhard).

I took all the copies my coworker gave me and hid them. And I haven't told my family. Ha. I'm a dork, but I'm embarassed!

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Sandra Bullock, Angie Harmon, Drew Barrymore, Debi Mazar (?), and Jessica Biel.

Drew Barrymore's thing is fake sugar, though.

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By the way, I totally don't think this picture looks like me--I feel like the make-up looks caked on and gave me wrinkles!! My coworker busted into my office with all the copies from the gift shop, and I gave him a bemused smile and said, "oh, that's the wrong issue, that's not me...oh, wait...wow ...

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(I have a few nits with some of the wording

Ditto.

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The eagle has landed.

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Wow, so it's on the stands? I don't want to see...

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Jamie, what issue of Women's World was it--NoS on the cover?

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<<oops>>

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Non-Weekend S days. Also known as the Special S days.

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Oooh, Good Friday AND Purim...sneaky!

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Alrighty then! Welcome!

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Great interview, R. By the way, I took the train to NY.

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(BTW, the 40-50 miles/ week is because I'm training for my second marathon- not because I'm a weird exercise freak)

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Have you ever been able to establish the habit, without worrying about whether the weight was coming off? Maybe if you could do that and then get stricter with food choices, then that would work?

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Awww, look at that cute little NoS webpage...

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hm...so someone in Tennessee got to see it, but you (Reinhard) and I haven't...booger!!

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Roseha, I think it's great that your doctor said something, actually. Not fun to hear, but I think a lot of doctors don't pay enough attention to their patients' weight and get real with them and advise them to lose it!

Great for taking responsibility for getting back on track, everyone! I was ...

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Love the tire idea, sorry it's buried--damn those Maine winters!!

Good to hear from you, Freaky!

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Don't give up...fat is definitely not your destiny.

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No.....?! Suddenly I'm mortified!!

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Keep it up!

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(((Deb)))

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I totally agree. And someone please tell me, with a straight face, that America got fat from eating fruit, carrots, and beets.

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How are you doing today?

I answered your earlier questions on my check-in!

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And with that, I think I will start a fresh 21 days.

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Thanks, Joanna. Yes, I'm not anxious for open knee surgery!

To answer your earlier questions, all told I lost about 25 pounds. I exercised a very large amount throughout most of the time, but I also lost weight when I wasn't. I am addicted to exercise, and it really makes me feel and look my best ...

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Isn't it great!? Remember when R was tossing around the idea of even writing the thing?

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Thanks Merry, Joanna, Lisa...sorry, I haven't looked at my check-in since mid-January! Anyway, despite the totally fun and weird magazine experience, the last few months haven't been going very well.

One, time Kevin (the oldies will know him) asked me what my secret was for running so much and ...

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I suspect that Reinhard wouldn't want you to go to such expense...

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Are you sure? Because I didn't get mine on Amazon and I posted a review--maybe it's that you have to be registered as a customer that bought something sometime on Amazon?

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I recently experimented adding a little peanut butter to my oatmeal. Who knew? It's the best. That and a little fruit and the whole shebang really sticks to your ribs until lunch.

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Indeed. Wise thoughts, all.

Although I don't really eat a lot of junk or fatty stuff, there is something so freeing about the idea that I COULD eat french fries if I wanted. I don't know about you guys, but once I got over the anxiety of the OMG-if-I-eat-cheese-I'll-never-be-thin-again and just ...

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Awesome. My work here is done. Back to the bat cave.

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Can you imagine what it might do for Reinhard's sales if everyone who has appreciated the book/this site/R's advice/each others' support wrote a review on Amazon? I KNOW more than 5 people (including Dru and me and the three other people I don't immediately recognize) have either read the book or ...

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I started a new thread about my comment...

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Thanks.
*waves

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*waves

Good on ya, Deb, that is ABSOLUTELY the hardest thing to do--stop in mid-binge and check yourself. Nice work. And nice on the 5lbs.

I hope Richie feels better ASAP!!

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Nice work.

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I also don't worry about the starch in things like jicama or potatoes and so on. I really only worry about the starch in man-made foods.

I'm so with you on this. I avoid white bread, overprocessed starches etc, but usually I think it's silly (barring doctor's/nutritionist's orders related to ...

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Jerseymonster mentioned that she's lactose intolerant, so the milk idea wouldn't work--I'm the same, I can have yogurt and cheese but real ice cream and straight milk is...ugh.

I like the idea of a piece of fruit for the 6am (like an apple, which, because of all the fiber and water in it makes me ...

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Yes, Fridays are always the most vulnerable days for me. No suggestions at the moment, though...

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Also, and this applies to the coffee post, too...they make some very yummy herbal teas that satisfy that craving for a warm, nutty flavor without the S. It shouldn't be too confusing to the habit, I think, especially if you don't sweeten it (I don't think it needs it, personally).

Celestial ...

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I don't count coffee. I drink too much of it (although it's decaf only), and I will soon try to cut down...soon. But no, I don't count it.

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Nice job, Sean, and I agree with you on both counts!

(I also tend to not drink with meals because it causes a little acid reflux--sorry, TMI).

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Hi Betty,
I think a lot of people do this, and I do think it's a learning experience. I think the more important thing is building the N-day habits. I think most peoples' S days become more sane once the panic of having "only" two days to get in all the snacking and sweets subsides...and I've heard ...

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I keep ALL my work clothes at work (I wear a suit everyday) and wear layers of comfortable clothing to walk.

That plus Gore-Tex (which is very expensive but totally worth it--and it has a lifetime guarantee) jacket AND pants.

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Believe it--it will work. I lost 25lbs total eating this way, but more importantly, the habit was so sane. Once you trick your body into following the rules (it does take a few weeks to make your body understand that you don't neeeeeeed a snack or a dessert), the habit is mindless and mindful all at ...

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Welcome back, I'm back after a posting hiatus, too.

You can do it, we all can.

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Hi, Deb <waves>

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Tomorrow will be Day 1. Let's get this party started, shall we?

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Hey Reinhard,
Just sent you an email, but with the new deadline, not sure when the pic would be taken, may need a few weeks of NoS to get back down to fighting weight (THAT would be a great motivator, eh?)

Mandy

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Ooooh, that reminds me that I need to get back on the hummus. Thanks, Merry.

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Hey Babypurr,
Like KCCC said, make sure not to make it feel like a diet...by all means, refocus and get back on track, but if you feel like you aren't losing on the plan, before you start slashing your meals by trying to survive on fruit for lunch, take a look and see whether you are actually ...

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I love this substitution--graham crackers taste sooo much better than ice cream sandwich, uh, "bread." Hint: if you let the graham crackers get a little stale first (just leave the box and liner open a few hours) they get a little softer and easier to eat--I learned that one by accident.

So, on ...

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Mmmm, that hummus and tomato on whole grain toast post was me, back in the day. I gotta do that more often (for lunch, too). These days I'm oatmeal with a banana or peach or berries.

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Day 12 (May30): SUCCESS.

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Day 11 (May 29): SUCCESS. Swam a half mile and did yoga.

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Day 10 (May 28): S day, but I don't think I had any esses other than a few stray munchies at a bbq. Ran 6 miles and cycled about 8.

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