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Mostly green this week, although some red--I need to get a handle on snacking, especially sweets. But I worked out twice, and didn't eat to a level of over full, so I'm happy with the results. And I've lost a few of the lbs. I put on since August. Looking forward to my S days!

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Four years and a month since I started No S. Two operations later*, I went from a starting weight here of 298, to 256 the morning of my weight loss surgery, to 157.4 lbs. back in August, to 162 lbs. now.

*VSG-a weight loss surgery in June 2011, and bi-lateral knee replacement in August 2012.

No S ...

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Oh, and in terms of numbers: highest weight 315 lbs., summer of 2004, right before my husband died.

Started No S on Dec. 1, 2008 at 298 lbs. Lost 17 lbs. by giving up soft drinks and having everything taste like cardboard after Jack's death.

Was at 256 lbs. right before my Vertical Sleeve ...

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Well, I did hit my goal, and on my 57th birthday, to boot! I've gained a little back. I'm trying to jump back into No S--it isn't so much my modest re-gain, it's that my eating habits got to be terrible and I don't want to live like that again.

Still doing OK on No Seconds, although I think I have ...

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I just got to the point where my knees hurt so much I was willing to do almost anything to make them feel better.

The reason why you hear conflicting opinions is the failures are memorable to people, but the successes are somewhat boring. Sort of like the myth that adopting "cures" infertility ...

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I had a VSG last June 22nd. I did NoS the 30 months before that, losing 44 lbs.

NoS works. Surgery works faster--but only for 6 months. NoS plus surgery? Like they were made for each other. NoS, done right, gives you excellent habits, so you can lose weight before the surgery, and avoid gaining it ...

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Going back to NoS. Thursday was a Green day, Friday wasn't, but it was until about 10 PM. If only I could have held out for 2 more hours! :-D

After a long stall, starting about 6 months after surgery, I'm losing again. It's nice being at my High School weight.

Doing the SparkPeople 10 minute/day ...

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Well, December 1st has come and gone again.

I have lost 120 lbs. since I started, 40 lbs. of it on No S.

I'm back again because I'm starting to gain, and I'm gaining because I'm eating sweets and snacks.

I'm hoping that being vigilant about No S will stop my weight gain. But if it doesn't, I ...

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I have an appointment with a doctor to discuss gastric bypass surgery. (Don't know which type, I'll give him preferences and let him pick.) I'm OK with the 45 lbs. I've lost, but it's been 18 months, I'm still in pain, I'm still taking meds for HBP, meds for depression, meds for pain, meds for other ...

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Saw a friend last weekend. She got gastric bypass surgery last August, and has lost 95 lbs. since then (it's a cliche, but I hardly recognized her). I've been doing No S for more than double that time, and have lost half as much. She hasn't had the really horrible side effects I've heard about, and ...

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Sounds good to me:
1= :D
2= :D
3= Green!
4= Green. I got talked into ordering Chinese food for lunch. Instead of eating the entire take-out container, I ate half, put the rest in the frig for lunch tomorrow. It's too tempting to declare one container as one serving. Also: did my physical therapy ...

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Absolutely. I found out about No S via a friend, and was discussing this with him, and the phrase he used is "I found my hunger." It is nice to have a body that behaves just as it ought to, just as it has evolved to do. I think food taste better when you're hungry just as liquids taste better when ...

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I was stuck on a plateau, with my weight see-sawing around one point from AUGUST until April. But I stuck with No S, and now I'm losing again. The last time I was on a long term diet, I stayed on it pretty much that amount of time, and lost over 60 lbs. And then got pregnant and gained it all back ...

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I went to the doctor's this AM, and, of course, they had to weigh me.

Somebody's scale is off. There's no way I could have lost 8-9 lbs. in one week.

If it turns out the doctor's scale is correct, I'm about 1/3 of the way where I want to be.

Of course, you could say that I'm already there since ...

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The rule of thumb I use when figuring out if something is a sweet is I look at it, and think, "Did I get fat eating this?" It's highly unlikely you got fat on gum. I suspect it's highly unlikely ANYONE got fat on gum.

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My goal is 1 ounce a day, which is fairly close to 1/2 lbs. per week.

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:?: We have three possible explanations for the displayed weigh at my doctor's office this AM:

Possibility 1: The scale downstairs in the Health Center is weighing too high.
Possibility 2: The scale at my doctor's office is weighing too low.
Possibility 3: Going down to the apartment complex ...

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I hadn't weighed myself in awhile, but did so last Friday, and discovered I am now down almost 38 lbs. from when I started. Part of this may have come from being in the hospital for several days, on clear liquids, but I'm also trying to be more active, within my limit of my disability. This morning ...

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Good news: I've lost more weight (for a total of 37.8 lbs. since I started), and I got a 3% raise.

Bad news: 3% still isn't enough to pay my bills, I'm not likely to be getting more, my kid is still unemployed, and I am still going through major relationship angst.

Still trying to figure out what ...

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I know it's a cliche out of CATHY but I'd kill to be able to drown my feelings in a pint of ice cream right now. I remind myself that ice cream is not going to disappear off the face of the Earth before Saturday, so if I want it then, I can have it.

Still, it's a stressful time for me. I was in ...

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When my friend's son died, she set, as her goal, doing one hard thing a day. Some days that was just eating a bowl of bran cereal. Other days were dealing with funeral arrangements, trying to figure out why she delivered at 7 months, and more.

I remembered that when my husband was dying and ...

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Day 475. After having my weight stuck for what seems like months, I'm finally losing again. I weigh myself infrequently, but I weighed myself 10 days ago, and then got weighed last night at the doctor's office, and I dropped 2 lbs. for a total of almost 33 lbs. I'm been making an effort to pay ...

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My favorite comfort food: peanut butter noodles & carrot slaw.

I boil spaghetti and make a sauce of peanut butter, soy sauce, oil (I use sesame oil), vinegar, hot pepper, garlic (I have a jar of chopped roasted garlic in the frig), and a little honey. I took the recipe from Arthur Schwatz's What To ...

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I feel for you, I'm not seeing quick weight loss, and I'm losing at a rate about 50% of Weight Watchers (although there's no way I could have stayed on WW this long).

But I think of No-S as not about the FOOD, as it is about the HABIT. I wouldn't worry about eating "lighter" during the week, as ...

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I've been off work since lunchtime Friday because of the big snowstorm, and I suspect, since it's snowing again, I'll be off tomorrow, too.

I've long had the habit of associating being snowed in with baking comfort food, and it's been hard to get out of the mindset that snow=cookies. But I've been ...

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If that criterion ever drops down to 30 lbs., I'm your girl. I suspect 10% of body weight isn't dramatic enough for them.

I'm starting to budge off that plateau I was on, but only because I've bumped up my activity.

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Dec. 1st of last year, I started No S. It's Dec. 1st again, and I am still on No S. Wish my weight loss were greater than ~30 lbs. but that's 10% of what I weighed. I could probably goose it a bit if I were more active but when it feels like your knees are being sledge-hammered just walking to the ...

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Still hanging in. I've lost around 30 lbs. since I started last Dec. 1st but have stalled at one weight since July. I suspect I could jump start things by working out but when it hurts just to walk to the bathroom, there's not a lot of incentive for walking 2 blocks to the fitness center.

Still ...

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Thank you for the responses - I had no intention of changing the rules until I get to goal and then maybe not then either.

Goal is following No S for the rest of your life, so probably not then either. [/quote]

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Weekend before last I hit the thrift store around the corner, and came home with a couple of shirts, a pair of jeans, a belt, and a windbreaker for under $25. Cheap enough, and when they don't fit, I'll donate them back for someone else. It was worth $25 to me to have physical validation that I've ...

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Interesting Article about Water.
http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/health-fitness/articles/family-health/rogers-macleans/enough-with-drinking-water-2009-09-01/1

Well, I know that whole 8x8 thing is a myth but the meds I'm on give me cotton mouth. I'm not any healthier for drinking a lot of water ...

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I've been where you are. I'm there now. I am now into 9 months of No S. I've lost about 25 lbs. When I did WW (30 years ago! Yikes!) I lost 62.5 lbs. in 9 months, which stayed off about 5 minutes or so. (I hit a plateau and I was so tired of denying myself.)

I like that 25 lbs. are gone, and today ...

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The first is to an article I read on my way to work this week:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/09/is_technology_friend_or_foe_to.htm with this quote:

The major differences in caloric intake aren't due to larger meals. (In fact, there's some evidence that we're eating less at ...

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I'd like to offer a suggestion, but I'm not sure of your struggle. Are you saying that if you save the leftovers, you'll be tempted to eat them? If so, freeze them or if that's even too much of a temptation, I'd vote for tossing them.

OT: Why do you hate your dog? (Just curious---I'm a dog lover ...

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Well, I haven't been posting a lot but I am finding No S to be a lot easier. In fact, it's almost a relief on Monday when I can pass on snacks, sweets and seconds and concentrate on keeping my day green.

The challenge I am struggling with now is going from cooking for a family to cooking for just ...

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FINALLY went in to use the pool on Sunday. It made me nervous that the lifeguard was on his cell phone almost the whole time I was in the water. If an emergency happened, would he take a few extra seconds to wind up the call and make sure the phone was safe? Would those few extra seconds matter ...

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Well, it's been a while. Moved from one house to the next but it didn't result in any major weight loss. But other than a few "unscheduled" S days, I've been fine. I declared my vacation days to be S days. And I had a birthday. I'm down 29 lbs. since I started 8 months ago, and I'm losing at the ...

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Went to my arthritis doctor on Wednesday. I'm down 26 lbs. from 7 months ago. For all his advice that for every lb. I lost, it would seem like 4x in terms of my knees, it does NOT feel like I'm 104 lbs. lighter.

My paratransit got me there 30 minutes late (and they picked me up 90 minutes in ...

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Weighed myself for the first time in a week, and discovered I'm a little over 3 lbs. down, for a total of 23 1/2 lbs. My knees feel a little better, in that that they don't hurt when I'm sitting down, but remind me when I walk that they're still pretty trashed. Oh, well, little improvements add up ...

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Sorry Eva, I don't have a site to give you.
I learned this fact from two places.
One I heard it on a tape I had from Prevention magazine, that thirst can be "disguised" as hunger.
Years later my physiology and pathology professor at The Swedish Institute of NY, who was the science department ...

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Thirst and Hunger can be confused by the hypothalamus.
So if you are dehydrated, you may interpret it as hunger and then eat rather than drink.
Also, the digestion process is helped a lot by water, as well as elimination etc..
But the hypothalamus is a little slow to actually pick up the signals of ...

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I drink when I'm thirsty. Iit's a myth to say we need a set amount of water per day, there's considerable medical evidence that if you drink to thirst, your kidneys will be in better shape. I think this whole "lose weight by drinking more water" meme is harmful, much in the same way folks are ...

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Well, as of Monday, it's been 6 months. I declared Monday and Tuesday to be S days as it was my son's (Monday) and nephew's (Tuesday) graduations.

Musing about weight has me thinking about what those numbers mean. My nephew, who just graduated, was 1 lb. 1 oz. at birth. Those increasing numbers ...

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I haven't weighed myself lately so I don't know whether I'm steady, losing or gaining but except for last night, I've stayed on NoS.

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278, 20 fewer lbs. than December 1st.

On weeks when I have to walk a lot, I'm in horrible pain but I show big losses on the scale.

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Sigh. Just forget it.

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I think you are doing great!! With the Lap Band, you are looking for instant gratification and it doesn't always happen and you may be depressed over the negative results. I would suggest waiting another 2-3 months before you make a firm decision. You are losing, and that's what counts.

Arlene ...

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I totally agree that No S is all about HABIT not DIET. . . and I believe that is where the emphasis should be.

I was a bit surprised to see the comment below regarding how "full of self-hatred, etc." the No S boards are. I guess I must have blinders on, but these boards seem so positive to me for ...

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See if this works:

http://nellorat.livejournal.com/387182.html

or email me at eva@evawhitley.net and I can send an email with a working link.

It's working for me, but then, I'm on her friend's list. If it continues to be wonky, maybe I can get her permission to repost here.

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I drink about a gallon of water a day (not that much really as I have a 20 oz giant cup that I just refill six times - 128 oz equals a gallon so it's easy to do. I also drink a lot of flavored green tea (and yes, I go to the bathroom A LOT).

If you believe NPR (and a whole raft of medical ...

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A friend of mine wrote up her thoughts on why dieting isn't sustainable but habit change is that I thought we might find familiar, seeing how NoS is more about the latter than the former. If you want to read it, it's posted at http://nellorat.livejournal.com/387182.html.

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I hope you are eating enough food so your body isn't starving for nutrtion. A half cup of 3 things doesn't sound like much. If you are exercising, you will need more calories as well as proteins.

Arlene

I'm good. I ate lightly for breakfast because I eat lunch only a few hours after breakfast ...

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bizzybee wrote:My name is Sarah and I have 95 pounds to lose.

Welcome. I think of my water walking as sort of a supercharger for NoS. The two things work together to make something better than either one.

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You do not want to know what I ate yesterday. However, in the old days, having eaten what I ate, I'd be sitting around today in a well of self-pity, berating myself or making it worse by eating junk.

However, I had a breakfast that consisted of under half a cup of three things, a diet dinner lunch ...

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:roll:

I'm here because I *don't* want to obsess about what goes in my mouth. And it would get old posting things like breakfast was a slice of homemade fruit bread, a container of yogurt, a banana and tea. Lunch was a 6 inch sub (I've decided a 12 inch sub constitutes seconds) with turkey and ...

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Is this discussion still active?

When I did WW, they made a big deal that the people who came in to lose 15 lbs. were having just as hard a time as someone who had to lose over 100 lbs.

I've been assured that someday I'll come around to that idea, but to be honest, it still raises a Jack Palance ...

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Also a goal implies "you're done!" But you're never done, when it comes to eating moderately. Setting a goal can mess you up even if you succeed in hitting it, because you inevitably think, on some emotional level at least, that you're done, you can relax, game over. I think this is one of the ...

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S Days are eventually a thing of the past -- at least out of control S Days. There's no point in overeating if you feel better with moderate eating. How about giving this diet three more months?
Kathleen

I don't want to think about S days being a thing of the past. The only way I've been able to ...

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WW makes a big deal about losing 10% of your weight but I could never stay on WW long enough for it to happen. But I decided that in the spirit of having modest goals, I'd shoot for losing 10% this year.

I made a spreadsheet in Excel, did a formula figuring out how much 10% of my weight was, and ...

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Well, back down to 280 again. Tried to go to my GP's office to have my first weight check, so if I decide to get a lap band, I can move quickly on it. I took the first appointment of the day, woke up 45 minutes earlier than usual, got there on time, only to find he double-booked that appointment. I ...

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Well, 4.6, but at one point in April it would have been around 7. Still, I managed to be no-S 22 days, and I went water-walking several times.

I find setting very small goals works for me, so if I get discouraged, I can see that I'm on target for my modest goals. For example, my goal for 2009 was ...

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I hope you'll reconsider the band. A friend of mine who has it talks in terms of "keeping things down". Yes, she's lost a lot of weight but is that a way to live?

That had occurred to me. But if No-S stalls for a long time, I'd go for it. I'd still be eligible to get it, even if I lost 80 more lbs ...

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Week 22: a little loss, I'm still over my lowest weight, but under my highest weight. I brown-bagged breakfast and lunch today and yesterday, but didn't save any money because I ate out last night.

Taking a little downtime before I pull on my suit & some sweats and drive over to the community pool ...

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Used my bread machine to make 9-grain banana bread with raisins and dried fruit in it AND remembered to slice it up, put it in bags, so I can pull out one/day, and eat it with my breakfast yogurt and fruit.

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My 100th No-S day! Go me!

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I weigh on Tuesdays and Fridays, and keep a spreadsheet & graph on it at work. The line's going up and down, slowly, but drawing a trend line shows me that only a few of my data points are below the line but the line keeps going down eventually. I also keep track of how many ounces I've lost because ...

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Undecided whether today was a success or failure. Ate two pieces of chicken along with vegetables, so I don't know whether that counts as seconds or not. (Still: no sweets and no snacks.)

Did some shopping, even though it hurt my knees.

Weighed myself, if I were obsessive, I'd be in a funk that ...

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Hanging in there, still jazzed from Monday's weigh-in. Went swimming/water walking for 30 minutes last night. Still having a hard time with lack of snack in late afternoon but making do with lots of tea and Altoids.

I'll probably weigh myself tomorrow.

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The last time I went in (post-hospital) it was 14 lbs. higher so they're VERY impressed. I looked the doctor in the eye, recited 14 words, and left it at that.

I just got back from visiting sweetie, who doesn't eat lunch, lives in a third ...

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Well, I'm in. I normally weigh in on Tuesdays and Fridays, and my Tuesday weigh-in was 287.4, according to the digital scale at work. Better than the 298 I started at, but discouraging considering I've been doing this since December.

ETA: After having a long weekend with my sweetie, who lives 506 ...

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Hmm, it's been awhile. Still hanging in there, trying not to be jealous of my neighbor's 60 lbs. loss over the past year. But my secondary goal is to lose 10% of what I weigh every year for the next 6 years. (My primary goal is to eat healthy meals with no snacks, sweets or seconds unless the day ...

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Another week on No S. I can't say it's getting easier but it was easy to begin with. Still, I'm looking forward to enjoying Pi(e) Day tomorrow.

I joined a pool a month ago, finally went to it this week, both Wednesday and Thursday night. Moved in the water (some water walking and then when my knees ...

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Eh, maybe I should start swimming more. It's been a rough week with the cold making my knees ache.

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I've reached 90 days on habit. I decided months ago that I would be satisfied with losing 1 ounce per day. That doesn't sound like much, but if I had that as a goal when I got very ill in 2000, I would have been at my goal weight around my 51st birthday. Now I'm trying to hit my goal weight for my ...

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sucess. Couldn't go swimming tonight since my kid had my car but probably will go tomorrow night.

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Hey Eva . Thoose Iv bags can kind of screw up weight. I had one once plus some steroids and had a almost 10 pound gain. You do lose it though . Good luck on No SSS . Your Ticker is looking Good.

I had PUPPP when I was pregnant with my 2nd second (go google it), and they had to give me steroids to ...

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Success!

284. But more importantly, didn't snack, eat sweets or seconds today and yesterday. AND I went water walking at the indoor pool, even though I didn't like the music on my borrowed MP3 player. (Having a waterproof pouch, water-safe earbuds, and prescription goggles made the experience a ...

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SUCCESS (so far): I think I have a stomach virus. Dinner is in the frig--if I get hungry, I'll eat it, but not much of an appetite right now.

I'll weigh myself tomorrow. I'm trying to reserve Tuesdays and Fridays for weigh-ins.

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Bleah, I know weight goes up and down, and I know I'm doing the right thing, it's just annoying to be in an "up" cycle.

No sweets, no snacks (I even made snacks for my kids without snitching some for me), no seconds. SUCCESS even if the scale isn't cooperating.

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Success.

I'll weigh myself tomorrow.

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Exempt.

Helped a friend move. I didn't actually carry boxes but I took the doggie for a long walk so he wouldn't be underfoot. Snacked on popcorn at the movies, ate a sub for dinner, decided I wanted some chocolate cake, so I just made some.

Tomorrow: if I don't help a friend clean her house, I ...

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OK, so this is more like it. Sucks that it may have come as a result of colonscopy prep, not No S, but I'll take it, particularly after the hospital weight gain. :D

I stayed on No S today. I decided to fudge the rules by staying up until midnight, so it would officially be Saturday when I ate some ...

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EXEMPT

Taking today and tomorrow off for colonscopy.

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paulrone wrote:I'm a guy, so the idea of crocheting during the latest episode of "24" isn't too appealing. I'm open to suggestions, though.

Solitaire? Painting? or other artwork? Macrame?

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Well, lost a little, so I'm happy about that. I know it's not about the scale, but it'd be nice to 'go to a new number' like they used to say on Weight Watchers.

What is important is I enjoyed my S days, and now I have gotten through another day of no sweets, no snacks, and no seconds.

SUCCESS ...

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SUCCESS

Didn't go to the Health Unit to weigh myself because I'm still honked off at the scale. Ate 3 meals, no sweets, no snacks, I'm still figuring out what constitutes "seconds."

Joined an indoor pool. It closes early tonight, and they're closed to members this weekend because they're hosting ...

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First off, as a former proofreader, it bothers me that it says "looser" not "loser." Can we fix that?

Secondly, it's going to be me. :P I have more weight to lose than almost anyone else who has posted, and I have the rest of my life to do it in.

I'd like to be losing faster, but I've done that ...

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I was in the hospital for 3 days, IV, tests, etc. I figured between the liquid diet, the NPO day, and the hospital food on the last day, I'd lose weight.

I gained it. As confirmed by the weigh-in at the doctor's office today.

The nurse consoled me by telling me it was common to retain fluid after ...

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Back again.

I was hospitalized yesterday and Monday. I assume being on a hospital liquid diet counts as No S, and I managed No S yesterday, not that passing up the diet chocolate pudding in the hospital was hard.

It was weird that the hospital took my word for what my weight was. Guess they ...

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Just checking in before I go upstairs (partly to relax, partly to get away from snacks). Ate bagel & apple for breakfast, with milk to drink, split an order of chicken and snow peas for lunch--bland, how do people eat that?-- and a big bowl of homemade turkey noodle soup for dinner.

I guesstimated ...

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Finally got into work, and weighed myself. I'm down 7.8 lbs., so I'm doing better than my target, 1 ounce/day. I know, not a lot, but it's something I can achieve.

SUCCESS

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Home for the second day in a row. I'm not comfortable driving in ice. The bus is 2 blocks away, and my knees and lungs are in bad enough shape that 2 blocks is a hard walk for me even when it isn't icy.

I swear I can hear the snacks in the kitchen calling to me. Fortunately, I had a big brunch ...

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Home again after a weekend away. Sort of violated no S on Friday night by waiting until midnight, and then grabbing some peppermint patties and M&Ms. Chocolate tastes so good! Ate huge breakfasts and dinners Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday and Sunday mornings, but no lunch. I think a did ...

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Got weighed yesterday. I lost a few ounces in the past two weeks. If you consider No S to be just a diet then I guess I'm not suceeding because I've lost so little weight. But I consider it a way to reform my eating habits, and by that metric, I'm doing well. I have managed to avoid sweets, snacks ...

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Let's see if this counter works:

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wA5whoM/weight.png

I've been doing pretty good. I decided the day of our company's awards dinner would be an S, day, so I had a slice of prime rib after I ate my single serving of dinner. And I ate a small (size of 50 cent ...

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Whoops, missed a few days. But I stayed on No S for Monday and Tuesday. I've lost 3 more lbs.

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This is an S day, so I indulged in one of my weekend favs: tea made at 7-11 using the steamed milk from the cappuccino machine. Tomorrow I'm going grocery shopping. I'm trying to develop a new habit of making sandwiches with the lunch meat as soon as I get home, then putting them in the freezer, so ...

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Started on December 1st. Succeded most days (figuring the day of the office potluck, my son's birthday, christmas, christmas eve, new year's, and new year's eve to be S days). Have lost 4 lbs. so far (from 298 to 293.5, and I'm not being obsessive, there's a digital scale at work).

I'm OK with ...

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Back in the saddle, again

I'm back!

I'm (probably) stopping NoS

What are the odds?

Just an update

Oh, for a pint of Ben & Jerry's

Finally!

Resisting the temptation to call a snow day an S day

December 1st

Re: Enough with Drinking Water

Two links I found helpful this week

Re: full of self-hatred?

Interesting short essay on dieting vs. habit change

Re: hi can I play too?

Menu posting reminds me too much of teh eebill WW.

Anyone else aiming for 10%?

Bummer

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