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Well here I am another year older.

I've been away at Spark People and really loving the site and just found out that there is a NoS team on Spark! Wow! I joined it and that led me back here. I'm a much healthier Resting now, down about 35 pounds, running 2-4 miles per day, eating good things ...

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good day!

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good day to me!

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back again. fell off the nos wagon to try to lose faster and found only pain. Why leave freedom, control, healthy, sane eating?

been green and yellow for 10 days.

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Continuing the plan. Loving the ease. Losing the weight.

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One of the best things I can do is go back and read my own posts. It gives me the anchor of remembering where I came from and gratitude for where I am.

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Thought that the funniest part of this article was the sidebar advertisement for LIP PLUMPERS!!!!!! Isn't that a stitch? Let's all plump our lips. Maybe then we will all look thinner by comparison. Sounds painful but more pleasant than tolerating another S.A.D.

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Thinking about my lunch. Choices. The only reason I feel no anxiety about choosing carrot sticks over Doritoes to go with my soup, is that I'm totally free to have either, or both.

Free means free indeed.

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Hey Janie,

Just checking in with you. Have you thought any more about those bracelets? Every time I'm in Michaels I get the itch to make a yellow-green beaded something or other

Hope your days are green

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Mavilu,

What a beautiful response to living NoS! What an inspiration you are!

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I've been here since last April and NoS is still working its way through my system. I'm so glad that with the dips and falls I never really walked away. If you've been on a diet ALL YOUR LIFE like I have, NoS means sane recovery. Why?

Because even though no sensible, critically thinking person ...

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wonderfully sane weekend.
I know I've read posts @ this site about intuitive eating or some such but I never really explored the, "Am I Hungry?" road before. I can honestly say that I'm so thankful I didn't go there first because it would have Kept the NoS healing from happening. Now I feel safe ...

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Wow
Imagine taking a thin, fairly heathy, non-food obsessed woman and changing her into a bitter food hating calorie/fat/carb counting maniac in just one month.
And we wonder why diets diets work.

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One of the wisest and best things I can do when I'm feeling discouraged about this journey, is to read others's posts. The commonality of the struggles, the joys, the determination, the changes, the relief always lifts me up.

I'm so thankful for this community.

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Hey Tracy,

That is wonderful. Did you post on the '21 Day Club'?

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Fantastically wise yellow weekend. Special treats, special sweets-only enough to enjoy, not gorge.

Something has changed and it is good.

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Hey Debs,

Certainly enjoy reading your posts, and also seeing the pics of you and your son. It is obvious how much you love him! Thank you for always putting in your very wise 2 cents. I know we've all learned a lot from you.

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Enjoy reading your posts and you are doing great!

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What a wonderful week-so thoroughly green, a wise yellow yesterday, and wise plans for today. Read Proverbs 8 today. All about wisdom.

I'm so thankful for the healing that goes on here.

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Hey Janie,

Did you get your laps? Your post makes me want to get back in the pool myself.

Congrats on the greens and yellows!

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You said it well. One reason I enjoy this group so much is that I feel so many here have lived my life. I feel as if we are all part of a diet recovery group. Hello, my name is___________and I am a recovering point counter. I have been "clean" 42 days.

That would be more funny if it weren't so ...

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I'm being consistently green but not really losing much weight now. My thoughts are again toward looking at my plates and deciding what I can leave off if I want to lose. Freedom to choose to lose.

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ooops! Had to run for a second.

so...........about 30 minutes later I realized what I had done and that the day was now RED ! The victory came in the realization that since I had made it a red day, now I was free to make it a really red day. I was also free to simply mark it and move on. At that ...

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Yesterday was a victorious red day. Takes me back to early days of NoS. I made some very delicious bread for dinner, and then after dinner, cleaning up the kitchen, I broke off another piece and popped it in my mouth-not even really thinking about it. About 30 minutes later

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get well soon!

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KCCC

Brilliant! That is such a wise analogy, comforting, encouraging, and certainly packed with truth. I've got the visual to match my situation.

Thank you!

Hey Janie,

Thanks to you too.

I had a green day yesterday!

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Hey Blue,

I think we are all going through Blue withdrawal. I know I am having trouble minding the chant:

N Days Green!

Hope all of your endeavors are going well. I'm enjoying my soy misto with an extra shot!

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Hey Janie,

Just wondered how you are doing. It seems like lots of folks have either kind of fallen off or slowed down on the posting-I certainly have. Winter is always hard for me. Still, and always, this is the only place to be for me.

How is the homeschooling going?

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Hey KCCC,

I found this quote of your quite interesting:

essentially, I kept returning to the dessert buffet because NOTHING was satisfying. A learning moment.
:)

I guess we could look critically at any food at any time and ask ourselves what about this or that would be satisfying. Just the ...

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Still somewhat discouraged but certainly not defeated. Same issues as before. I had my first red day in months or at least I acknowledged it as red. There were probably others that I didn't acknowledge.

But, as always, there is no other place to go. I know that I couldn't stomach heading back into ...

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Still keeping the green days green, or at least I'm pretending to. Too much virtual plating. I'm a little discouraged-but I see that on the regular discussion boards as well. My needs are to cut down on that virtual plating, experience some hunger between meals, and add more of the healthy stuff ...

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here's to a new year!

Glad the abundance of yellow is behind me and I'm heading toward greenland

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Hey Kathleen,

I would say it's both:

Both a cause-like the not looking in the mirror thing

And a result-emotional eating has been BIG in my life. I can't discount that.

Anyway, good post!
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Welcome, Jane,

This is the sweetest place of sane recovery from the years of battling food with wet noodles (counting, measuring, weighing).

Have you gotten the book yet?

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Certainly one of The healthiest Christmases ever, and there was no stuffing!
Pun intended
Staying green on my green And reasonable on my yellows.
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Hey Kathleen,
Just wanted to pop in and say how much I appreciate your honesty and willingness to walk this journey in such a Transparent way. you say much of that I feel. Here's to living the rest of our lives enjoying a sane relationship with food.

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Hey Deb,

I'm just betting you have more friends on-line and in person on any given day than this mean old lady has had her entire life.

How pitiful to have age but not wisdom or kindness. What a sad existence.

So glad you are here!

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Still green or yellow.

Looking at the Christmas week. Still so much to do. Only 3 parties left until Christmas day and all that goes with that. The focus here HAS to be moderation with understanding....or that favorite Common Sense.

Remembering all the Weight Watcher Christmas advice from the ...

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NoS with CS!

Still, I believe that adding the CS portion for new NoSers would be an additional burden. It is more like a plum discovered and then picked on down the NoS path.

Here's to more CS in my own NoS.

Thanks, Blue,

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Thanks for the wisdom of the blog Blue

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CC,

It is wonderful to see you back on the boards! Hope you enjoyed the cold weather. Got some lovely pictures from New Orleans in the snow. Glad the shops are busy with the Christmas traffic.

I know this must be hard, your first Christmas after the passing of your mom. My thoughts and prayers ...

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This post was going on just before I joined. What a hoot! The best laugh I've had in days.

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I still "think" about what I'm eating so that I can be sure to appreciate and enjoy it--and not eat it just because "I can." :roll:

Hey LA,

I'm glad you brought this thread back up. It has helped me to go back and review the process-where I came from, what I have learned. Still figuring out what ...

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KCCC wrote: And - most importantly - I'm going for GOOD vanilla. (Like "real" vs. "imitation," for those of you who cook.)

Hey KCCC,

What a good example! The real thing instead of tweaking!

Also, wow to baking cookies and not nibbling.

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Thanks, y'all,

Oooooo, I like that:

"making peace with food" after years of an "armed truce" at best.

What a great quote!

I've been reading back through old (really old) journals, from college days, early newborn baby days, the children growing up days, etc. I've been slamming myself forever ...

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Hey Blue,

Another wonderful blog!

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Today, as it turns green, will be 9 weeks on habit. Hey, that's 3X21!

Just posted on Kathleen's note about the "emotional brain". I know that my brain has changed. That is so weird, but also so wonderful. I think that part of me has finally realized that I'm not going to starve or punish myself ...

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Morning Kathleen,

I joined back in April. I could have written your post. But here I am, 8 months in, having had multiple S days gone wild. But recently something has changed. I'm thinking it is that my body knows, on a deeply emotional level-maybe like in the book you quoted, that I WILL NOT ...

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Wonderful Sunday,

I SKIPPED breakfast before church, knowing we would go to early service then out for lunch. Surprisingly, (not), I didn't pass out from hunger.

Enjoyed my treats-

Enjoyed my family,

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Hey Blue,

You knocked it out of the park again. This is the kind of wisdom that one has to experience. I think if any one had told any of us this when we started NoS, we just wouldn't have believed it.

The only way to get here is to travel here.

You are such a smart one!

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Go Janie!!!!!

Your Green Freedom post is wonderful. Away with addictions to food and dieting! I never thought about being addicted to dieting! Whoa.

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Thanks Blue, the choices are coming more naturally.

Thanks Janie-how sweet! Your response was like a light bulb going off. How true-this is what we all want. Freedom to enjoy, instead of being held captive, to our desires for FOOD FOOD FOOOOOOOOD!

I'm here. SO glad to be here.

I love Blue's ...

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Well, all of us that have been through that wonderful experience of having a colonoscopy have had that joy.

YIKES!

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I continue to be amazed by this journey.

Have I actually, finally decided to grow up?

My meals have been reasonable, moderate, healthy.

I am somewhere beyond thrilled and astounded.

R

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Hey Blue,

Commenting on your blog

Asking the Lord, "What is the truth?"

Listening to wisdom.

So glad you are here to share your walk with all of us.

R

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Hey Noel,
yum. a cookie swap!

Good and wise control to decide the nws the day before.

Looking forward to seeing how it plays out.

R

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Janie,
How wonderful!
"The changes are on the insides." I wonder if Reinhard Knew how powerful this would be.

Proud of you!

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Hey Blue,
What an interesting idea. I never ate breakfast until ww when I was told I had to.
Makes me think about this old couple that lived down the road when I was growing up. They ate @ lla.m. and 4p.m. because they neither wanted nor needed 3 meals per days. I remember thinking how very odd ...

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Today was a success and more than that, a victory. It could have been my 7th straight "s" day because it was a special day- the big annual Christmas party for our shopping center. I opted to get my lavish dinner along with the cheesecake and carrot cake desserts and eat back @ the store. As I ate I ...

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Thanks y'all,

After 2 birthdays, 1 Thanksgiving, 2,000 miles, many sweet Visits and memories, it is time to return to the day to day.

No Regrets!

I've enjoyed every treat. I've certainly learned, "If I don't like it, I don't eat it!"

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Lovely, delicious, thankful Thanksgiving.

How wonderful that most of those Thanksgiving leftovers can fit like islands on ONE PLATE. The yummy desserts will wait for one more day.

Thankful that Thanksgiving was about being thankful, not about points, portions, or pounds.

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Day 233 of NoS
12 reds to date
48 days on habit.

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a Fabu S day

Now that is just so cute!

Here's to many FabuS Days to follow!

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Dear KCCC,

Thanks for your wise words. I feel like you've got my back. Are you wondering if I'm returning to the dark side? A prisoner to counting and measuring? Any time you sense that, please wave the red flag. I'm grateful you are here.

The rest of Sunday was wonderful. I'm such a numbers ...

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Well Blue,

How about that!

Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful

And the numbers on the scales and tape measures, etc. are only a part of the marvelous change in your life.

Thanks for sharing your joyful journey with us.

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Dear Shannon,

Have you ever read the book Boundaries? Another good one by the same authors is Boundaries in Marriage. These are great books to go through with your spouse. Your husband is NOT your father and you are NOT his child. Unless you have asked him to be your diet police and he is doing ...

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Thanks for the comment, Blue

Hey Habitualrunner,

Glad you got a chuckle out of the sneaker thing. I'm happy when I'm wearing mine since it means I'm outside walking the trails.

On Growing Up.....

Chapter 2

Weekends

This weekend, taking my cue from an old Reinhard post, I have marked off my S ...

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Thanks Reinhard,

I wanted to go back and re-read the article that set my feet on this path.

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Hey Blue,

"the weird thing is this time I feel like i have lost the weight "honestly" ... no sneaky diet rules or forbidden foods, just straight up eating ... :D am I making ANY SENSE at all?"-Blue

Of course you are making sense! And, you are getting compliments, AND you feel good, AND you got a ...

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Hey HR,

I was reading somewhere about making marks for S days, like IIII, and then /. I think I would think more about all the goodies if I knew I had to mark them off. Just like a habitcal. Have you listened to S Days Gone wild podcast?

It is hard for me not to abuse freedom, but it is this ...

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Blue-thanks for the encouragement-growth, insight, habit!

Habitualrunner!

Thanks,

I couldn't remember where I had read the NoSneaking habitcal

Isn't that funny habitual RUNNER and No SNEAKERS ????

To me a lot of this is about growing up and growing free.

Yesterday was green again. As it ...

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Is there a way to get a copy of the original article?

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What a smart post on moderation. Was thinking about it this morning as I walked. On WW we were given so many points per day-period. Although we could "Eat Your Activity Points" we were kind of discouraged from doing so in order to lose weight faster. Or maybe I just encouraged myself not to eat them ...

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Isn't is wonderful to be amazed at these simple things?

Hooray to the salad story!
Hooray to YOU!

Oooooo, a bracelet with all those different shades of green!!!!!!!

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Yesterday makes 6 weeks (42 days=2x21) back on habit.

Why is this easier this time? Is it because I no longer feel like a kid caught with her hands in the cookie jar? I've sneaked food for as long as I can recall-a sure way to add excitement into eating. I liked what someone posted about having a ...

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Hey Blue,

I know that one rant we, at least most of us, seem to have, is about our weekend days. You Very kindly just keep beating the same drum.

I thinks I may finally be able to hear the beat.

ndaygreen !
ndaygreen !
ndaygreen ! I

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Hey Jenny,

I could have written this post myself. I had a glass ceiling habitcal and then started one named WOW for with out wine during the week. For me it was because I realized that the glass or 2 (and how much is a glass?) made it harder for me to contain myself to N day food intake. I try to ...

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Hey Janie,

I was reading back over my daily check in and came upon the post where I was lamenting 7 red days of my journey. Guess who was the wonderful, realistic encourager there??? It was YOU!

Thanks
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Heading back to my favorite renewal place-the beach. After being so virtuous about more veggies and fruits, I ended up junking it at Chik-fil-a. I know that is certainly allowable, but I'm wanting to walk wisely. Sigh!

Here's to a peaceful couple of S days.

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Dear KCCC,

So sorry you are feeling lousy. Hope you will have the space to take care of yourself.

BTW Nibbled To Death By Ducks is the name of a mystery novel by Robert Campbell. Do you know HIM??? That would be very cool.

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Noel!!!

Good to see you back on the boards.

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Your Anxiety blog was right on the mark and just what I needed to hear...read.

Glad to hear things are okay with your loved one.

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ooooooooo! Cool Analogy!

Like we get to stop for gas 3 times a day instead of at every exit.

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Thanks, Blue,

Now I'm at Day 35 of my new renewal. I'm watching more of what I eat...Making sure the veggies and fruits go on the plate first has been a bit of a challenge but also a good one.

It is so sweet to be CALM about food.

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Janie,

The beads are gorgeous!!! I love the folded ones that look like fall colors.

And you are doing great on NoS! How neat that you those evil jeans flip you into redland! Here's to greenland.

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Yippee for the Return of the Blue!

I loved your new blog message about the best weekend ever. I was reading something Deb said on some thread about it taking her about 6 months to settle into more reasonable weekends. And here YOU'VE DONE IT!!

It would be interesting to go back and find old ...

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As I read this post, I think that I know my exact weight at many times in my life, but I doubt I remember the names of all my bosses, old telephone numbers, names of coworkers, etc. The agony of dieting is very real to me.
Kathleen

Oh MY! That quote puts me through the floor. I can remember (and ...

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Hey KCCC,

Being at OUR age is interesting, isn't it? That was very insightful about not making the to-do list at 120%. It is time to give ourselves more grace. You are doing a great job!

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Hey Y'all,

Sweet about the Fall comments. I think that would be great fun-making glass beads, I mean, playing with the colors. Hey, you could make some NoS necklaces with 5 green, 2 yellow, and...........what to do with the red??

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Kathleen,

I look at your post about " I was set on the path of restrictive eating when I was a teenager who weighed 132 and was 5'6" tall. " Good Grief! I would love to be any where near that. Of course, when I was a teen, Twiggy was the model to model. How sick is that? I remember people dying ...

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Monday was a success. I knew I was going to be having dinner out with dear old friends and that one of them was bringing a special dessert. My day was like an 'N' day with a dessert at the end. I'm thinking (actually I know-based on reading the 'S' day parts in the book) that that is how an 'S' day ...

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Well, I certainly would not use this weekend as an example of Stelar quality. A neighbor actually brought this amazing caKe to our store as a thankyou gift for allowing her to pick our flowers as part of her morning walk. So kind of her. then out to Mama Dips for lunch after church . It was my Ist ...

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I'm on the beginning of my 'first' S day after deciding to be a bit more adult about NoS. Since I've had so little restraint since joining in April, reading this thread has been wonderful. I also keep thinking about what Blue says about are you enjoying it?

So.........I won't stuff that stale ...

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So today feels like my very first S day. I'm needing a plan. Haven't eaten yet and am waiting to formulate plan before I do. Maybe just a Starbucks treat like a frappachino. Maybe a trip to the French pastry shop. Anyway, I know I do NOT need to act like a kid in a candy shop with no restraint.

I ...

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Ha! I've been doing this since April and am finally free enough to logically, gratefully make my plates look NORMAL. It just took time to get here but there were no short cuts for me.

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Dear Blue,

I just shocked that you might be gone.

Your insight, wisdom, continual encouragement have been such a major support to me. You made NoS look absolutely beautiful with your food creations on your blog-always a joy to look at.

I'm assuming from the other posts that this had to do with ba ...

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Thanks, KCCC,

I like the idea of 5% change. I kinda see myself as doing this. I'm just going to keep on enjoying NoS and act a little more adult while doing it. I refuse to count or measure anything. :roll: I've dome to far to go back to that insanity. I just need to make my life a little healthier ...

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Lovely day yesterday and very green.

Fruit and cereal for breakfast
Veggies, chicken and brown rice stirfry out for lunch-boxed most of it and gave it away
Veggies, beef and brown rice stirfry for supper YUM!-will pack some of this for lunch today.

As I was out shopping for dinner last night, I ...

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Yay! Kudos to you for not resorting to grazing. I like how Reinhard says that we are pre-disapproved to snack, second, sweet. Makes life so much easier.

I agree with the crowbar thing. Like, just suck the fat out and let me be on the other side of this. :) Still, I would miss this journey for the ...

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How wonderful of you. I wish my mom had done the same for me.

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