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Yay!, that's great news!.

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I'm now a fan, too.

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Merry Christmas, you all!

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Thank you so much, Noni.

My Christmas as a married woman have been easy because my own family is in a separate country and my american family lives far away, so, there's only the two of us and we do whatever we feel like doing, we've had everything from delivery pizza to a five course home-made ...

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Wah!, I forgot to update for a few days, but the reason is that we have decided to take a low profile on the holidays, for the reasons that I lost a family member on october and I really don't feel like celebrating much and also because we always make december a month of celebration, which is nice ...

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Congratulations on your success!, I'm glad that you found the solution that works best for you.

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I never do these kinds of resolutions, but this next year

I'll try Wosnes approach to No S

I'll get back to you in a few months.

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I'm sure it could be done... I just don't wanna!. :lol:
Actually, I'm thinking of weaning myself off the rigid S days observance first for about a month or so, before I relax a bit and start observing them casually here and there, just to get the idea that I don't have to observe the S days at ...

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While I did need to lose weight when I started No-S
-- it wasn't as much as I need to lose now.
S days... I know I was eating more than I would have
if they weren't days to have sweets, snacks and seconds.
I was actually eating more than I did BEFORE I started No-S!
Doing that maybe 6-10 ...

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mavilu...remember s days are supposed to be guilt-free, enjoy them. Does that sugar tongue really happen? I've never heard of that. Tell us more. :wink:

Yeah, I know... but there were apple cookies (many, many), orange chocolate and jelly beans...

As to the "sugar tongue", for some years ...

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In Germany, we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day.
So do we in Argentina and the rest of Latin America.

I'm still hanging in here, but it's getting difficult, it's cold (for California) and I miss how jolly my kitchen becomes with all the baking.
On the other hand; I'm ...

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Alright, I'm in.
Since I hit 40 this year, it seems that my stomach has gotten very picky when it comes to excess and I fear that a typical december excess would be catastrophic, plus, I gain weight every. single. december.
So:

I say no to all Christmas goodies until the week of Christmas, unless ...

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Welcome!.
We are happy here because we allow ourselves to enjoy cake.
:D

And chocolates
And cookies
And candy
And Steak!

None of your favourites will be at stake!

And, Oh, the wonderful eats you will eat, when No-S'ing makes your treats into treats!

(Maybe it's time for my pills...)

Hahaha ...

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Welcome!.
We are happy here because we allow ourselves to enjoy cake.

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The water thing is like the snacks thing, you think they would make a profit selling bottled water if they didn't convince everyone that they must drink as much water as possible and that the bottled kind is much better than tap?.
Thank God people is starting to figure out that tap water is the same ...

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Woah, welcome back, Noel!.

As to the article, see?, we knew it all along and this makes me think that eating all the time and at any time messes up with your hunger.

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I think to answer your question one would just need to glance around at the nation of snackers we have become.

Do we look healthier than our ancestors, do we look fitter, leaner, trimmer?

:cry:

No, but I have noticed that people who do work out and are very healthy swear by eating 5 or 6 times ...

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I'll pass this time.
I have a bad case of acid reflux and I'm trying to get it under control, as it is, that's all there is in my mind when I think about eating and I'm frankly playing by ear.
Regular NoS for me this month.
But good luck to you all!.

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You know, it has happened to me too, after a bit more than a year, I eventually started getting looser in my rules, too.
I don't know why, maybe because I felt confortable that I had it all figured it out?, don't know.
The important thing is to realize that (well, in my case, my Wii Fit told me that ...

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My condolences, Oliviamanda, the death of a loved one is always sad, moreso when it is so unexpected.
I can't have any chocolate for the moment, but, I'm making brownies anyway and inviting my husband to have them in Peter's honor.
And I'm praying for his loved ones.

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I haven't updated for a while but because this last friday, I had one huge red, we went to the movies, which is a pretty special occasion now a days, given the price of admission and bought candy which is also a very special thing, since I never eat regular candy any more.
Anyway, huge box of ...

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If I may, given that I only post once in a blue moon:

What I'm seeing is a new brand of posters that have a very particular mindset, the mindset of being *very* healthy, in *excellent* shape and full of energy and gusto, which is good, I know, because I was there a few years ago, many of us go ...

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Hmmm, well, first we have to consider that people that say that they want to lose weight for X reason might be pointing out just the most prominent reason or the one they first thought about, or the one that will effectively push them to do the effort, or simple social reasons such as to belong in ...

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I grew up without snacks ( I have said this before, haven't I?)
I did have a "merienda" we all do as children, which is invariably tea with milk and a couple of slices of french baguette with butter and jam during the cold months and milk chocolate (with Nesquik powder) instead of tea in the hot ...

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I grew up without snacks ( I have said this before, haven't I?)
I did have a "merienda" we all do as children, which is invariably tea with milk and a couple of slices of french baguette with butter and jam during the cold months and milk chocolate (with Nesquik powder) instead of tea in the hot ...

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Was it the guy saying that he liked the "pretty colors" in the August challenge thread?.
At first, I thought it was you and that you had changed your username, because the picture in his avatar looked a lot like you.
But then I wondered why would you do that and why would you talk like that.
Hah ...

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That Seductions of Rice book looked too good to pass and so I bought it last night on Amazon.
I'm a big fan of vegetarian rice dishes and my husband is a big fan of rice, period and while he genuinely likes brown rice as well as white rice, I rather have just white rice, especially since ...

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If you're smooshing together Cool Whip, Jell-O instant pudding and a Duncan Hines cake mix, not only are you NOT cooking -- you're making an edible food-like substance. The heck of it is, it would probably take about 5-10 minutes longer to make something similar from real ingredients.

I always ...

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I'm in.
After two months, my portions have been getting a tiny bit bigger every time and I know where it leads; today, I'm wearing a pair of pants that I haven't been able to wear at all last summer and I intend to keep wearing them.
So,
Besides the core No S, I'll watch my portions at all times ...

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Thank you, Reneew!.
I'm writing to tell you that thanks to your challenges, I've lost another inch or so overall this month and for that I'm deeply thankful to you and to everyone here (especially Reinhard).
I also wanted to comment that, while I've gone down a size and lost an average of two inches ...

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That Seductions of Rice book looked too good to pass and so I bought it last night on Amazon.
I'm a big fan of vegetarian rice dishes and my husband is a big fan of rice, period and while he genuinely likes brown rice as well as white rice, I rather have just white rice, especially since traditional ...

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My granny will 106 this november and she doesn't snack, either.
Three square meals, a little bit of everything, as she puts it.
She has always practized that, but, when my grandfather lived, he insisted on tons of meat and sausages and little else (so she says) and during her early forties she ...

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Thank you very much Bright Angel!.

And you too, Vmelo!.

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Yep, I'm very small too, 5'3" as well and with a small frame and I know that sadly I need very little food.
I've reduced my portions dramatically (lunch is a pita with hummus and tomatoes on top with a glass of orange juice for examle) and even eating like that sometimes will keep me satisfied for ...

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vmsurbat wrote:Woohoo! Today I am celebrating 1 year of building NoS habits.

Congratulations on your first year and here's to many more to come!

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Doing fine!.
I've drank my water at every meal so far and have only one failure (curse that cherry pie!).
I've decided to ditch the scale (since I've noticed that I weight less if I'm slightly leaning into the left and more if I lean into the right!) and only measure, but now, I have to resist the ...

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I weight myself all the time, that is, whenever I'm about to jump in the shower and I notice the scale, and I have no idea how much I weight exactly, because the number changes all the time.
I thought that last month I had lost some weight while participating in the challenge, but then I figured I ...

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Well, look at that, only one red day and because of something that I know better not to do.
Not too bad.
The important thing is that I realized can reign in myself when I get a bit out of bounds and that makes me confident that I can do this forever.
I also lost some weight, I can't really say how ...

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oliviamanda wrote: I've been going to Trader Joe's a lot. Lots of organic stuff at reasonable prices.

Try their ketchup, it's really good.

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Hmm, we've done that already at our home (our plates are now 8 1/2 inches), but I enjoyed the challenge, so I might have to think of something else.
A complete no red month or possibly to get used to drink a glass of water with my meals, either way, I'm in again.

EDIT

Okay, I've realized that I ...

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Doing pretty good, thank you, Reneew, for the challenge.
I had one red and that was because I moved one of the s days to the middle of the week and that didn't work, so, I've learned that.
I like updating my post every night before bed, I feel it's better that using the calendar, because you fellas ...

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A favorite of women's magazines such as SELF:

"Snack in between meals to prevent hunger that will make you over-eat at meal time"
But, wait a minute: so, am I eating extra calories in between meals to prevent eating extra calories at meal time?... huh...

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It's time I do one of these, especially since I've been slipping off a bit and the Wii Fit just yelled at me for gaining weight.
I'm in.

June 1 GREEN
June 2 YELLOW Wedding anniversary trip
June 3 YELLOW Wedding anniversary trip
June 4 GREEN
June 5 GREEN
June 6 YELLOW
June 7 YELLOW

June 8 ...

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A tip: people here isn't like the people you'll find at L.J.; "sigh, forget it" won't add anything positive to the discussion in this forum.

That said, I've gotten out of lurking to add that there is a big difference between "self- criticism" and "self-hatred"; if I say here or anywhere else that I ...

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I wonder if I was so out-of-touch with my own needs that I just missed those signals in the past, or if my body was so out of whack because of the lousy eating I did that it couldn't even protest?

I used to wonder about this too; my conclusion is that I eventually started thinking that feeling ...

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Real whipped cream made of cream, not hydrogenated corn syrup. :wink:

So you guys just eat heavy whipping cream?
I'm a fan of "if you don't use it, you lose it" and I'm aware of the million ways in which we don't move as we used to, therefore I buy heavy cream and I whip it by hand in the old ...

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Sara, if it's too hard for you, just do it in stages, as KCCC says, I first got used to one S and did it for a whole month and then kept adding an S at a time until I was used to all three, granted, I didn't lose much weight on those first three months, but I didn't have to stress it out, which is ...

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450 F is all you need to bake pizza, a commercial oven with a higher temp will just produce your pizza faster...like 10 minutes faster and you can always get a baking stone that will absorb heat like nothing else, unfortunately though, they are wickedly expensive.
I make pizza and focaccia routinely ...

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The negative reviews for the book at Amazon are just ridiculous, there's one guy that firmly states that it's either count every calorie every moment or go bust, there's the guy that acuses everyone that reviewed the book of being a fake and now this choice person, oi...
I reviewed already, but ...

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I meant to do this a couple of days ago, but I didn't have the time, so here it goes:

On the 14th I celebrated Valentine's Day and a year of NoS (with doughnuts)!.
On this past year I have re-learned a lot about food and myself, I lost the fear of spending more than two hours without eating ...

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I always get hungrier with an abrupt change of weather, if it gets much colder all of a sudden and it lasts for days, I'll get hungrier, the same when I get sick, I need my chow then.
When I get very nervous, I lose my hunger for days.

I think we all have periods in which we get hungrier or less ...

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I think your problem is that you are choosing to call your lack of hunger "deprivation", it wasn't deprivation; no one told you not to eat, you just were sick.
You didn't feel like eating and that's the end of it, turn the page and treat the next weekend like it is: just a new page and just go on ...

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I tried WW for one month exactly.
I fretted during the whole month, I had only 1200 cals a day or less to eat, so food became a very precious commodity that I was not to ruin!
I remember eating lots of turkey breast sandwiches because I was too hungry to make point calculations for anything else ...

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I took a yoga class a couple of years ago where there were full length mirrors and lots of lithe and trim people; I stuck out like a sore thumb!.
My problem is that both full length mirror in our home are surprisingly forgiving and, even though I look at myself in the mirror and feel good about the ...

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Hahaha, you poor thing!.
BUT, NOW YOU KNOW.

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I just can't help feeling guilty for eating this or that: "blueberry cake with whipped cream? are you sure?, you still have weight to lose, you know" type of thoughts.

But I'm getting better at shushing and retorting to myself things like "Well it IS saturday, you know".
Bravo! That phrase "Well ...

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Well, by now, my body regulates what I have on S days, so, I just don't worry about it much any longer.
Last night I made this spanish meatball dinner that we liked very much, so I went ahead and had a tiny bit more as seconds, but, see, by now the sensation of stuffiness is a big no-no for me and ...

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Amen to that!.
I was recently telling my husband that whenever I make dinner dishes in which skinned chicken breasts are the major source of protein and fat, I get really hungry within three hours, which is super fast for me, but if I have two slices of walnut bread slathered with butter, I can go ...

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paulrone wrote: 5. One word: Bread

And real butter on it!!.

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Amen to all that, sister.
As you might remember, I'm one of those "two meals a day" people, just like you, I spend several hours in between meals, with one big gap between dinner and lunch next day and also I love the whole eating healthy shebang and I'm not having any "toxic hunger" issues.

This ...

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Ah, thank you, Wosnes!.
Well, I'm very intrigued and tempted, I think I might get the new book after all, I mean, I rely on the original and I have given plenty of recipes from that one to people; I love it so, improvided can only mean more love from me.

By the way, I forgot to comment that I also ...

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Tell me Wosnes, how are you liking her latest book?
Is it worth buying if you have a couple of her books on mediterranean food or are the recipes a bit repeated?.

EDIT
Wait, so it's just a revised version of the Mediterranean Diet Cookbook?

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BuckeyePink wrote:My proud moment of the last weekend was stepping on the scale after Christmas was over. I have not gone above my starting weight of 11/12/08! I reached my goal of not gaining through the holidays.

I am really looking forward to the next month.

Wow, hats off to you!.

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Ha!, I love this thread and it's title because that was the decision I took two nights ago.
I gave myself plenty of room to be an idiot and I ate whatever I wanted during most of december and I enjoyed myself inmensely.
I gained weight of course, but, amazingly, not even close to what I have gained ...

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Merry Christmas!, we celebrate Christmas Eve in our home as per latin tradition, so tonight is our big dinner.
Enjoy you S Day everyone!.

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Well, this doesn't surprise me, as I have said ad nauseaum: this is how people has always eaten! and to throw completely anecdotal evidence: I don't know a single person in my country that has diabetes; I didn't even know what diabetes was exactly until I came to live here and over there, they are ...

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I'm sorry to hear that, CC.
I hope to see you around in january!.

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I had to tweak; my husband is NOT observing any dietary rule on the basis that the Holiday Season come only once a year, therefore, the new rules are: I can have whatever as long as it's part of one of my three (or two) plates and as soon as I'm full, I stop.
Also: I'm not buying any goodies, I have ...

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We have switched to smaller plates a couple of months ago, I don't know what size they are exactly, but to give you an idea, yesterday I made breaded chicken and all I could fit within the inner rim of the plate was the breaded boneless breast and a few stalks of broccoli.
We haven't experienced any ...

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I had a barium enema once.
The only reason I went ahead with it was that I didn't know what the procedure was exactly.

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Noel, it's not aimed at you (especially since people that work in couseling and well, with people with eating disorders know how ugly it can get), but rather aimed at everyone around, I don't mean around here in the forum, either, rather around everywhere.
It bothers me that people in general is so ...

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Hey, I joined the group!.
Yeah, it is just like a forum, I don't know how to make an application, but I would love it if it would be there.
Facebook is so good at grouping all your Internet life in one place, that having NoS as well in there would be wonderful!.
And also, whenever people look at ...

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Wowzers, people, why are you all so scared?.
I don't get it, now a days, people is afraid that you'll go either morbidly obese or anoxeric and wither and die, can't it just be a middle common?.
I don't know Blueskighs very well, I know she has had problem with binging but I'm confident that she ...

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If you guys make a Facebook group, I'm in.

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There are these Trader Joe's cookies that only appear during December and we wait all year to eat them, the same with Panettone, which is a tradition in my country that immigrants brought with them from Italy and we just bought two boxes of cookies and two boxes of Panettone to start the first ...

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Happy belated Thanksgiving, everyone!.
I managed to have my dinner without over-eating but then, I laughed so hard after dinner that I ended up with indigestion all the same, which was what I was primarily trying to avoid.
Ah well!.

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There are people who do this normally. Whatever works!

really? you mean they eat cookies/muffins for breakfast on an N day too?
Sure!, in my country and other spanish colonized countries, people start their morning with a pastry and tea or coffe with milk and that doesn't make them fat.
My ...

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Since I had to be very careful about activity this past month, my appetite has dwindled too, and I've been having just two meals a day, too.
It feels fine, I feel fine and you always know that if you do get hungry, you can have a third meal, so, why not?.

I have really reached the point in my life ...

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Today I had:

A banana and a large glass of full fat milk (breakfasts are always light)

Pasta with roasted red bell pepper, garlic and fresh basil sauteed in olive oil with parmesan cheese and mango chunks with full fat plain yogurt

Curried butternut squash soup with rice, a pita bread and a ...

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Heya! I was wondering about you, I'm sorry you had such hard times this year.
You ask what's so ahrd about three meals a day and I'll say that it's a matter of long practised habits; I stayed on NoS and just today my mind was going "come one, it's JUST a piece of chocolate, what's the worst that can ...

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Do you have any thoughts or feelings on this issue you'd like to express?

No, not really.
I've been a member of other forums for years now, so I'm not exactly new at PMing (Private Messaging), but I do appreciate you telling how it works for those that might be a bit confused about how private ...

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Welcome back, pioneer!.

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I do!.
I just try to make it varied throughout the three meals, but even that isn't a rule set on stone.

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Uh, I almost missed a couple of posts!

KCCC, yes, I think I will!, too bad that my insurance only pays refered massage sessions and my docotr apparently didn't see it as necessary, oh well, next time I get an attack I'm so asking him to give me a referal!.

ou812, oh yeah, have no doubt; there's ...

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I was inspired and last night I boxed on the Wii.
It made the pain in my back that was gone come back, but it was exhilarating.

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Happy Halloween, everyone!.
I already caved in and had some candy last night :? , but it was great, because unlike past years, I was actually able to stop after a few mini bars, I've learned that even when caving in, I've changed.
I hope it's the same for everyone here, maybe when you have your ...

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Massages, that actually never crossed my mind, since I never had a massage, but it is an awsome idea!.
I'll have to find if I can have someone that's covered by our insurance.
Oh, whatever it takes to relive this discomfort, thank you so much for the suggestion!.

Reinhard, yeah, I just wanted you ...

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Yesterday I had an appointment with my doctor, because I've been having some back issues.
So, we discussed the problem and he basically told me that pinched nerves go and come and even if we try to avoid surefire ways to pinch our nerves, they might happen just the same and that it might take months ...

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Last week, my husband brought me a bag of Lindt chocolate balls; I'm having some trouble and he figured I could take some S time and cheer up a bit with chocolate.
It was a good idea and all, but I wondered if I could resist opening the bad until saturday.
Well, let me tell you, it was hard ...

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I just wanted to say that one day I stumble across the No S Diet on the internet and read it. I had been looking for a diet that wasn't really a diet but a way of life and second nature. I joined Weight Watchers 6 years ago and lost 163#, reach my goal weight, but you know what, I could not stay on ...

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I'm liking your new name a whole lot, I'm glad you are still around, chica!.

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Welcome, Linda!, you'll love it here.

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Quick brag?, alright.
I've been on and off bed and doing nothing but sitting around when up for about three weeks now, I've been eating nothing but fast food and frozen meals (husband does NOT know how to cook more than eggs) all this time and I haven't gained a single pound, in fact, I could swear ...

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It's nice to have you here, Silky!.

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Oh, by just seeing the heading of the article, I know what we will be talking about.
I've seen it happening in my country, too; only a matter of time before everyone is snacking all day long and eating crap in their cars; replacing eating at the table with the family. McDonalds has being working ...

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Yay, that's great!.
I hang around SparkPeople.com sometimes, I check recipes and articles, nice place.
Congratulations on your weightloss and welcome to the boards!.

Mavilu

Yeah, as Wosnes says, regular couscous is about the same as pasta when it comes to calories, given that couscous has the same composition of pasta: semolina and water.
But even so, if it's too many calories for your tastes, then, don't have the salad every day and voila!, problem solved.

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Soup is a favorite of mine, too.
I usually I have 1 plate + bread + fruit, that keeps me from being too stuffed and from being hungry too soon.

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On the contrary: this might be the first season in about five years that I'll approach while calm and confident and without an ounce of guilt!.
I have my rules and I know what to do now and even if I gain some weight on december (that month is my bane!), now I know that after that, I'll return to my ...

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Welcome back, dear; weight loss is sweet, but nothing compares to peace of mind!.

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