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I use Yaktrax, and it's easy to get around because they grip the slickest ice. I also am fortunate enough to live in an area where the snow removal is decent, and my janitor is anal about making sure that the entrance to my building is meticulously groomed.

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Walking may be weird, but not driving is downright wacko according to some folks! Like the bank manager who had to verify my signature from my government-issued health care card because I don't have a driver's license! He couldn't imagine how I get around. And he was dumbstruck when I told him I ...

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Anti-Journal for yesterday in 5-4-3-2-1: PB & crackers in the afternoon, because they were there. A bunch of veggies and dip before dinner. Also 1/4 of my actual plate at dinner, although I've had this food court meal so often that the guy knew what modifications I'd want as soon as he saw me ...

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I can't think of one discussion on this board that isn't respectful, kind and very informative!

For me, peanut butter is a trigger food and the only way I can have it is a "controlled substance" - I bought a box of the little individual packs that you get at restaurants to put on toast, and when I ...

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Rachelcity, seaweed salad can be very tasty. I figure, I just bought it in the wrong store.
By "void of seaweed" I meant the type I had that day (sorry).

Heddi, if you were here, I'd gladly share my really good seaweed with you! And my dental floss, 'cause that stuff really gets stuck in my teeth ...

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Heddi, I had seaweed salad with my sushi at lunch, and it was delish! Not cheap in Canada, either, but I'm finding that my meals are getting smaller, so I can finish the container tomorrow at lunch. And you're 1000% right that life is too short to eat bad food!

Noni, your story reminds me of the ...

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I'm baaaaaaack!! Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It's really appreciated. :oops: :oops:

Last night, I had a hair appointment at 6:00 p.m. I didn't have anything to eat beforehand, because how long could it last? Two hours, right? Well, I git out of there at 10:00 p.m.! (This is what happens ...

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Still here, still No-S'ing and still loving it! But I've actually been busy at work (how incredibly rude of them to assign me tasks and expect me to do them! :wink: )

I'm just coasting along, TBH. No drama, no disasters. One Red evening when I ended up snacking as opposed to sleeping. But weirdly ...

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When we get the impulse to try WWers again or intuitive eating my suggesting is that we have a cup of Green Tea, lie down, until the thought passes away.

^^^Quoted for truth! If I knew how to eat intuitively, I'd have eaten that way all along, right? Actually, my intuition predicts famines with ...

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Thanks, Eileen!

I haven't been around, but that doesn't mean I haven't been No-S-ing. In fact, I have some weirdly good news to report. first of all, I don't know how much weight I've dropped (one of the S things I'm swearing off are scales, until the day before my next doctor's appointment) but I ...

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For me, it's focusing on excellence, not perfection. As one of those all-or-nothing-thought-process peeps, excellence as a goal is right in line with moderation.

I also like the quote, "It's not what you've done, it's what you do next". eschano said it here, but I originally heard it on one of my ...

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If I'm hospitalized and have to stay NPO because I don't know when I'll be taken to surgery, that's one thing. But a couple of berries here and there? Meh. Self-flagellation is not on my approved list of exercises, so I won't get stressed. Unless it resembles the berry-picking of my youth, in which ...

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Yesterday was green, but not happily. I just wanted food. I didn't plan for enough food at dinner, because I was calculating my portion using Diet Brain and apparently I was afraid to go over some imagined limit on grilled veggies. Which was stoopid, because I was biologically hungry afterwards and ...

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I had a great weekend! Lots of walking, lots of quality family time, and although I ate more than usual, I wasn't out of control. even my "indulgences" weren't so awful. I snacked one day on a pudding cup because I really wanted something cool and chocolaty and the next day had some leftover roasted ...

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Me again. Green and eventually lean, c'est moi!

I have a thrilling day ahead of me, so tread cautiously if you think the excitement will be too much: Today's shopping list includes cat litter, dry food, TP, milk and veggies. Okay, the last entry's sexy and I know it. I'm planning to roast a tray ...

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TGIF!!!. I did okay yesterday, and managed to push away the Fiber One bar that fell out of my pantry when I was looking for pickles. I also had an Unscheduled Grape at the grocery store, but after one puckery bite, I was deciding whether to buy them or not, so this was a research grape and not a ...

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Hi Nicole! Thanks for your kind words.

I tried HCG, but didn't like anything that wasn't "loading". That was fun!! But it'll be a looooong time before I try to eat an entire jar of PB in a weekend again. I realize how many diets I've tried, and basically I think I've done almost everything that's ...

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I have only had one S weekend so far, and it wasn't a free-for-all like I'd feared. What I did on my S days was vary the type of food I ate. Instead of grilled chicken, I had fried chicken. I actually drank lemonade sweetened with sugar instead of a Diet Coke (this is not unlike the Lubavitcher ...

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Ooo, ooo! My turn!

Rachel is a 56-year-old aspiring standup comic. She has her alarm set to wake up to the Food Network, enjoys balcony gardening and never misses a comic book-based movie.

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TBH, it doesn't promise to be the Best! Cookie! Ever! (I have done some research into this throughout the years, and trust my scientific findings.

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I might make "No Mediocre Food" one of my habits to track. Seriously. Life is too short to have mediocre food.

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Another Green Day , which does not include a Boulevard of Broken Dreams! :wink: I was able to take a homemade cookie, wrap it up and stash it away for the weekend. Okay, I may have sniffed the cookie, and there may have been longing, but this is the No S plan, not the Turn Yourself Into An Unfeeling ...

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If you were in the neighbourhood, I could let you borrow one of my "alarm cats". They're very effective at getting me out of bed, the only problem is that they are set by their own cues. By which I mean angsty existential drama caused by empty food bowls. Is this a "pets resembling their owners ...

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Merci mille fois, TUK! And thanks, eschano. I think that work-thru-lunch days may indeed require a mod, because it's inevitable that as soon as I take a bite of anything, someone either comes to my office needing to talk to me or the phone rings. The phone, BTW, seems to also be trip-wired to ring ...

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Colour yesterday RED ! :oops: :oops: :oops: Here's what happened: I cooked three small chicken thighs, put two on my plate, and left the third one out in case I wanted it afterwards. Then, I mechanically went to the kitchen to grab it, being biologically still hungry, and yelled "WHOA!" when I ...

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Congrats on the Green Day ! It really is a Simple Plan and I'll stop with the band names jokes. For a while anyway. :wink:

I'm also doing artificial sweeteners, Bunky. Maybe I'll let them go at some point but I've never actually had sugar-sweetened drinks since I was a kid (my father was diabetic ...

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Yesterday was as bright green as the tomatoes on my balcony garden! I was actually happy to get back to an N Day. But I'm still gonna Anti-Journal the fabulous-looking Monster Brownie that I didn't eat last night (brownie topped with blobs of cookie dough, nuts, caramel, chunks of chocolate, etc ...

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I made it thru my first S weekend, with very little to kvetch about. I even got through two, count 'em, two trips to Dairy Queen for after-dinner dessert. The first night, I was kinda munchie-ish and took a spoonful of my niece's Blizzard. The second time, I really wasn't hungry, but I was thirsty ...

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I was reminiscing about *stuff my mom said* and one of her (many) schtick was to offer us kids fruit or carrots if we said we wanted a snack. If we declined, hoping for something that the magical tree-dwelling elves had made, she'd say "If you were really hungry, you'd take the fruit". So I am ...

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Okay, today's yellow - I took a second portion of artichoke salad at lunch (with feta cheese, olives, EVOO dressing - tasty but much too much dressing for my liking) and ate a plum and some cucumber sticks right now because I was both thirsty and hungry. I've had 2/3 Ss, and amazingly, the world ...

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welcome bunky! The No S plan is simple (and sometimes easy!) and the community is great. Dive right in and don't be shy!!

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You could incorporate the point system. But why remain a full time dietary accountant, as Reinhard says, when NOS already has its own "point" system - awareness of how much you are eating from the sight of your plate at each meal.

^^^ That. All it does is double the amount of tracking, logging ...

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Do you have the time to listen to me whine???? (Yup, starting off with a Green Day earworm! No need to thank me.)

GAAAHHHHH!!! How do you behaviour-modify cats? I was spooning the Friskies into the bowl at 4:00 this morning! Believe me, nothing is less appetizing than Chicken Pate at that time to a ...

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The reason why I'd be loathe to mark this as a red day is because I have been sucked into the all-or-nothing diet mentality, and to give myself a negative score for taking a sample of cheese would lead to and all-you-can-eat buffet of self-flagellation. This is exactly what I am trying to counteract ...

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I'm a WW veteran, on the 3rd day of No S, and the amount of brainpower I have left from not having to count those freakin' points is phenomenal! I thought I would combine the two plans at first, then I realized how much trouble I get into by tweaking and decided to give No S a fair shake.

I'm just ...

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For example, I find it hard not to obsess over the fact that I put some berry sauce that contained sugar in day 10's porridge. It's a real struggle to let go of that perfectionist all or nothing mindset from previous diets.

I'm also finding the relearning process to be difficult. Dieting ...

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I was in Chapters last night looking for a juicy romance novel (don't judge me! :oops: :lol: :lol: ) and came across a book I'd never seen before called The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. It seems to be very much in line with what we're talking about here, with the addition of lots of information ...

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As the shampoo bottle says, "Lather, rinse, repeat". You can do this!!

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Thanks for the warm welcome, guys! I made it thru Day 2 and I'm chillin' like a villain. And just for kicks and giggles, I'm going to journal what I had urges to eat yesterday, but didn't. Yup, it's an anti-food journal! Here goes:

At work: Birthday cake for a co-worker who I really don't like ...

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Our song can be "This Could Be The Last Time". Gotta love the Stones - my alternative song pick is "You Can't Always Get What You Want"!

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Hi. I'm a newbie, too - just started yesterday. You can *totes* do this, as my 10-year-old niece would say. It's so simple, and I'm hoping it's easy as well. Soooo tired of complicating things for myself!!

I started a Daily Check-In Thread which I invite you to check out. I don't think there's a ...

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Good morning! I'm Rachel (as you never would have guessed from my screen name) and I'm a newbie to No S. In fact, I spontaneously started yesterday after breakfast after reading about the plan on another message board.

A bit about me, since there's no Intro Thread: I'm oppositional in nature ...

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