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cannelini (white kidney beans) garlic basil soup:

1 T olive oil
1 head of garlic*
4 15 oz. cans cannelini beans
water as needed
1 32 oz. canned plum tomatoes
basil
salt
fresh ground pepper

Thinly slice the head of garlic and saute in the olive oil. I add a couple of tablespoons of liquid from the ...

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I'm just a few days past 3 months on my modified version of no s. I can't say enough good things about the diet. No s has had a very positive effect on my relationship with food. In turn that has led to some increase in self esteem. I'm not losing weight rapidly but when I have mostly green days I ...

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Thanks Who Me.

I have decided to use habit cal for my daily check in instead of here, so I will probably post more like monthly here.

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Not sure if this holds true for all of those groups, but it seems a lot of them live in the same place for most of their lives, follow a pretty traditional lifestyle (not just food) and are part of a tight knit community as well. It does me good sometimes to remind myself that there is a lot to good ...

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One of my favourite desserts is vanilla ice cream (I use Haagen Daas), fresh berries and a chocolate sauce. This is delicious and very pretty!

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Hi Clarica,
Thanks for the welcome.

Hi Who Me?,
I see that wosnes provided a link to the original discussion. If you want to discuss it more I have a slight preference that the discussion would be continued in the original thread.

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Hi wosnes,

I'll check out that book you mentioned, it sounds very interesting.
Here are my mods and commentary about them, maybe more than you wanted to know!

Mod one: not following the no seconds rule. The reasons for this mod are that I thought I would overeat more if I had to have it all on ...

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Some of you may remember me from back in February when I started a discussion about my fear of not being able to eat healthy enough if I followed NoS. At the time I announced that I would commit to following NoS for 6 months. I did not follow through with that. However, the discussion has been ...

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Not checking in daily but I have been sticking to things. Overall things have been going well, mostly green and yellow days. I've lost a little weight as well.

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9/6/11 was a failure in two ways. One is that I ate an ice cream cone on a weekday. The other is that I told myself I was going to go on a different diet and mentally gave myself an in between diets "free zone". The good news is that I got right back on the nosdiet at the next meal and immediately ...

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9/8/11: SUCCESS
9/7/11: FAILURE
9/6/11: FAILURE
9/5/11: SUCCESS
9/4/11: SDAY
9/3/11: SDAY
9/2/11: SUCCESS
9/1/11: SUCCESS
8/31/11 SUCCESS
8/30/11: SUCCESS
8/29/11: SUCCESS
8/28/11: SDAY
8/27/11: SDAY
8/26/11:SUCCESS
8/25/11: SUCCESS

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This sounds so good! I've been "off" oatmeal and on a Greek yogurt binge for a bit, but this may take me back to oatmeal.

The way I'd been eating it was not to cook it at all, but to soak overnight. I use 1/2 cup of old-fashioned and 1/2 cup of milk, a pinch of salt, a dash of cinnamon, and dried ...

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Thank you all so much, you have been very helpful. I will be mulling over a lot of these posts for a while.

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2/3: Failure
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I'm still curious as to why you don't think eating in a way that promotes health and No-S aren't compatible.

By the way, I have heart disease and I had a heart attack in 1995. My overall health has improved since starting No-S.

I think it would be hard to eat the amount of vegetables & fruit ...

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I am going to start this today. Friday and Saturday will be my s days as I have Thursday, Friday, Saturday off. I will reread nos starting today.

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Thank you all for your replies. I found them very helpful. I am going to give this a 6 month trial.

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One thing that is getting in my way of making a commitment to following no s is a fear that I won't eat healthy enough (to prevent heart disease, colon cancer, etc.). Yet, I really don't eat all that well now. It's just that I have this ideal in my head of what I should be eating and I am worried ...

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The best thing is to do shorter work outs but really intense ones ... that burns more fat and boosts your metabolisms for the whole day.

I think the best thing for most people is to find something, or a variety of somethings, that they like well enough to stick with over the long haul.

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black beans, roasted yams, garlicky rice and fresh pico de gallo

rice with edamame, sugar snap peas, red bell pepper, green onion and cilantro, seasoned with rice wine vinegar and sriracha

corn bread, baked beans, and green beans with a mustard vinaigrette

Just wanted to point out that not all ...

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Are you highlighting the habitcal tags before trying to load the calendars?

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After about a year of not posting, occasionally nosing, often following other diets for short amount of times, and sometimes just eating whatever and however much I want I am at an all time high weight (well technically down two lbs. off of my all time high weight established in October). I have ...

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I'm back. I keep trying other diets. I'm at my heaviest. I think this has the best chance of healing my very unhealthy relatioship with food. I've tried a few times in the last month to restart nos without success. For now, I've decided to only focus on eating 3 meals a day at reasonable times ...

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11/5 failure
11/4 success
11/3 success
11/2 success
11/1 exempt
10/31 exempt
10/30 success
10/29 success
10/28 success

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3/11/08 FAILURE

I think I may need to work on coping mechanisms for stress or I am going to have a lot of trouble sticking with this.

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3/6/08 FAILURE
3/7/08 FAILURE
3/8/08 SDAY
3/9/08 SDAY
3/10/08 SUCCESS

Unfortunately 3/6/08 turned into a failure.

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3/6/08 SUCCESS

I'm back. It's been a long time and unfortunately I am still overweight and still prone to gluttony.

I'm motivated and reading the book. I am also working with some cognitive therapy techniques to help me.

I have decided both with habitcal and here that I will start the day as a ...

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I want to thank everyone for your responses. Each one of you had very helpful things to say, thank you for taking the time to respond to me.

I will continue to stick with it and make some gentle changes.

overly beige · 7/14/07 SDAY 7/15/07 SDAY

7/14/07 SDAY
7/15/07 SDAY

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Thank you all for your encouragement and suggestions. There was a lot of really helpful advice/information in your posts.
I think I will start with working hard to eliminate cheating, trying to get more exercise and encouraging myself (but not forcing myself) to eat healthier meals.
I really need ...

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I've been doing this since 6/5/07 and haven't lost any weight. It is not a mystery to me why I haven't lost weight.
I haven't focused at all on nutritional quality (many of my meals have been very rich). I have cheated a lot. I have not been exercising as regularly as I should. I realize if any ...

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7/4/07 S DAY
7/5/07 FAILURE
7/6/07 FAILURE
7/7/07 S DAY
7/8/07 S DAY
7/9/07 SUCCESS
7/10/07 SUCCESS
7/11/07 SUCCESS
7/12/07 SUCCESS
7/13/07 FAILURE

I was on vacation from 7/5/07 to 7/8/07. I hadn't reread the section on vacations before I left and I misremembered it as being allowed to ...

overly beige · 7/2/07 SUCCESS 7/3/07 SUCCESS

7/2/07 SUCCESS
7/3/07 SUCCESS

overly beige · 7/1/07 SUCCESS

7/1/07 SUCCESS

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6/28/07 SUCCESS
6/29/07 SUCCESS
6/30/07 SUCCESS

I am loving this diet.
So far no weight loss. However, I hardly exercised this week, I had a house guest and ate out a lot of rich meals at restaurants and despite this I did not gain any weight. I really enjoyed going out to eat and not even ...

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6/22/07 FAILURE
6/23/07 SUCCESS
6/24//07 SUCCESS
6/25/07 FAILURE
6/26/07 SUCCESS
6/27/07 SUCCESS

I'm really happy with my experience with the diet lately. I am much less susceptible to temptation in terms of snacking. My biggest issue is not fitting in breakfast. Monday I had seconds so I ...

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Hi Judy,
I am glad to see that you started back on nos. As I was getting myself psyched up to start nos (again, I started it a while back and lasted about a week and a half) I read a lot of the old posts including many of yours and was wondering about how you are doing. I do not have as long of a ...

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mimi,
what is your exercise goal? Are you trying to exercise daily? I am trying to set a goal for myself, but I want to give it some thought first. I am curious about what other people here are doing or trying to do and how they reached that decision.
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Thanks mimi. It is weird to me when I will think about having a snack. I will be telling myself I can't have any snacks. I have to wait for my next meal. I will look to see how long I should wait and sometimes I will realize that I am past due for a meal. Yet my first thought when I was hungry was ...

overly beige · 6/19/07 SUCCESS I'm still just amazed by how often I think about snacking.

6/19/07 SUCCESS

I'm still just amazed by how often I think about snacking.

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Thanks Charis and mimi. I appreciate the encouragement.

6/16/07 SUCCESS
6/17/07 SUCCESS
6/18/07 SUCCESS

I was happy with the amount of snacking and sweets on Saturday and Sunday. I had a satisfying amount but didn't feel like I pigged out.

I started freaking out a little over the weekend ...

overly beige · 6/15/07 FAILURE Argh, I didn't even want to post tonight.

6/15/07 FAILURE

Argh, I didn't even want to post tonight.

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6/14/07 FAILURE

I realized a couple of things from the last two days. One is that I need to some planning if I am going to be very busy, the other is that I will have trouble being successful with this is I don't eat a decent sized breakfast early in the day. I am still feeling really good about ...

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6/13/07 FAILURE

Usually I wouldn't be thrilled to bite into a cookie and find that it tasted so bad that I couldn't possibly eat it. On a nos day however I was very happy to have my failure consist of one bite of a cookie. I was debating whether to call it a success since it was only one bite of a ...

overly beige · 6/12/07 SUCCESS

6/12/07 SUCCESS

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6/11/07 SUCCESS

I ate dinner much earlier than usual. In the past that would have always meant some snacking later. This time although I did experience some mild hunger I resisted the snacking.

I am still just so amazed by how often I think of snacking. Sometimes I'll realize that it is actually ...

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I wanted to add that on an intellectual level I always knew that I ate when I was stressed and sometimes when bored, but I just wasn't really that aware of it. Now it is becoming really apparent.

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Thanks Jan. I do feel like I'm learning a lot about myself. I am really noticing this tendency to think of food when I am stressed or bored.

6/10/07 SUCCESS

I have decided that for myself I will consider s days a success if I neither deprive myself nor binge. I don't want to feel sick from ...

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I agree with Jan, I think you should try to make your meals a little heartier. I also try to eat a meals that are high in fiber. It is good for your blood sugar and satiety.

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6/8/07 SUCCESS

It is very interesting to me to notice how often I think about snacking. I can really see how easy it would be to eat quite a bit more with snacks and also with seconds than without. I'm enjoying the process.

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6/5/07 SUCCESS
6/6/07 SUCCESS
6/7/07 FAILURE

I failed on day 3 by having a sweet snack, then had a strawberry lemonade with my dinner. The successful part of the day was that I couldn't finish my dinner. With only two days of nos my capacity for large meals had decreased. Also I don't feel that ...

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I have spent several years on and off (mostly off) that same vegan low fat diet. I recognize a few people on this board from a discussion board centered on that diet. It did not give me a healthy relationship with food. I could eat as much of the food as I wanted and still lose weight but I am no ...

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3 month check in

8/25 started back on NoS (with mods)

Overly Beige's Daily Check In

overly beige's daily check in

Fear of not eating healthy enough

I'm back to NoS

Ovely Beige's Check In

Not losing any weight

Day 4

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I also used to (try to) follow that same diet