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I watched 11 hours of highschool conference tennis today. In the hot sun. My son's team won and he got 4th in singles. I had no plates... I virtual plated it. I am burnt. I am tired. I am going to bed. Note to self: bring a pre-contained planned lunch and supper and sunscreen next time at substate o...

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Went to dinner for my birthday and had what they call a shot glass dessert (small piece of cake) Happy Birthday! And good idea with the shot glass dessert. And Liz had a birthday dessert on the 3rd too. Do you guys know eachother or just share the day?. Oh, and Gobble did on the 2nd!!! I guess it's...

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Yea! Keep going this time. We're here for ya!

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Ate too much wonderful, fresh, aged, Wisconsin cheese yesterday and got a barfy migraine. Uk. Well, at least I don't feel like eating today... at all. Then I went to my son's 5th & 6th grade music concert this morning. There's just something motivating about 200 10-12 year olds singing "Ain't no mou...

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Welcome back! Seeing your name did make me think you needed no incentive to exercise. But then sofa spud would have been a bit unmotivating. You go girl!

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17 of us up for the challenge. Imagine all of us in one room and feel the group hug.
Or not... maybe high fives???

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Way to go!

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thanks guys! I've been fasting until supper on all of the days that I put 2 green success guys on for the day when I record. Friday was going so great until company came for the weekend for my daughter's confiration. People walked in the front door and my control walked out the back. :? I declared i...

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dito, I'm copying your wisdom to my page

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Many things came to mind while reading here... Hang in there! You sound frustrated, and I understand! I really believe that the repeated compliance of the vanilla rules erases the bad habit and creates new. I can never be naturally thin, and I really need to work on it now but I believe that the pul...

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Down 22! I have sure had my panic moments... panic as an extremely extreme frustration. I really believe that the repeated compliance of the vanilla rules erases the bad habit and creates new. I can never be naturally thin, and I really need to work on it now but I believe that the pull from food w...

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Thanks nosnacker! I'm now at my lowest 2011 weight! Woohoo!

Hope your cat feels okay..??? I understand, I'm a cat lover.

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yea!!! Such success we had!

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I am doing fine! I didn't blow the 20 I lost... just up a tad on the weekend, but back there now. I have high hopes!

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Be strict, gain the habbit, period. I'd say good luck, but luck is not involved, it's all your choice. Just do it!

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Wow! You're doing great!!!

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What a perfect month! You should be very happy with yourself!

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You are meeting goal after goal!!! Great goin'!!!

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You may have ignored "sometimes" a bit but you made it to 21!!! You're setting the habit, and the rest will come. Good job!

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Finish strong and I'll see ya for the May challenge! Thanks everyone!

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When I go missing for a while some time its not because I'm straying... it's because my computer is definitely sick and getting worse. I'd bring it in, but my life is crazy this week!

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April 1 :wink: 2 :mrgreen: This is day 21 straight for me! I haven't been able to do that for a year and a half!! Woohoo! 3 :mrgreen: and a good day it was! 4 :mrgreen: 5 :mrgreen: kids (4) are out of school until Tuesday... beware! 6 :mrgreen: with a tiny S event 7 :wink: here comes Peter cotton t...

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My sons are 10 and 16, daughters are 14 and 18. My son said that he felt just a bit yucky this morning but feels fine now. Which I probably could have figured since he loves to prove me wrong, and I was sure that anyone who would have eaten what I saw would be sick. He ate a whole piece... fuzzy gre...

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Ha! I was a cheerleader in highschool. So are my girls. I was showing them a cheer from the good ol' days one day and blew a blood vessel in my hand! Then we laughed so hard I almost kinda maybe peed my pants. :roll: I usually like to enlarge and color my words here just to make it more fun, but I d...

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Make double sure her dress fits! 2 years ago my daughter lost weight during soccer (I should have known) and it didn't fit 5 minutes before her date and friends showed up. She'd checked it the week before. I had to do some fancy fast stitching! Our prom is next weekend and my son is going for the 3r...

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Welcome back. Give it an honest 21 days!

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Poison control said that we'd probably see some symptoms in 24 hours. He said he felt a bit nausiated, but I wasn't sure. He was running around.

And ~ 18 for both!!! Yea! I will jump up and down when I get to 20 pounds lost, and it will be very very soon!!!

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Stick to it and your body will get used to it and be fine until the next meal. I suggest incorporating the "(sometimes)" that Reinhard says into the rules. Treat S days just like N days but with some treats. Everyone says not to worry about it at first, to just get through the N days and the S days ...

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very very encouraging!

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If I am successful today i'll be at 18 straight! I had no idea. It's turning easy and I am loosing. :D My youngest son cleared out his locker yesterday and found uneaten Godfather's pizza in his lunchbag... and ATE it!!! It was from last week, Wed. That's at least 8 days warm... ick. I could see the...

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Welcome! Give it an honest 21 days and you'll see how relaxingly sane it is! I've calorie counted many times, and lost that many times, but it was insane. I am not a calorie accountant! I refuse to do that forever. I don't think it's healthy to obsess about every darn thing that goes in, let alone ...

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I am going to try to pretend it's Tuesday. Tuesdays are almost easy. Maybe I'll tell my kids to police me. Believe me... they will! And they'd love it do it too! I'm dreaming already of what I can have. Uh oh. But maybe planning ahead is a good thing! I always thought it was. I neeeeed popcorn. I m...

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Glad you had sanity over the weekend...I hope to find a little this weekend... Ha! No, I wish. I ate all blasted weekend and was stuffed the entire time. I really really want to attack my S days this weekend and do what Nicole said in a quote above about reinstituting "sometimes" as in NEVER (with ...

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I think my goal will be strict vanilla with a couple double good days a week if I feel like it. My goal was only one red day. Now I just want to finish the month green. May 1 :mrgreen: mayday mayday! 2 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 21 straight!!! I can't believe it. I really can't believe how this habit took...

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I challenge you to set a goal to meet by the end of the month! This is for anybody who needs encouragement and daily accountability. We will all keep tabs on each other. Think of this as your own little cheering section. - * Remember * to only post once at the top with your goal and edit that first...

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I agree. Last night I saw a commercial promoting cereal with chocolate chunks as a 9pm snack when that chocolate crave comes along. Ug. But I guess it's better than the bowl of icecream my hubby has then.

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So so close to a little goal of mine... I feel like not eating until I get there. I don't even care if it's a bit of dehydration. I want to see that number!

Very determined today to say the least.

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I have 3 teens and a tween and stay home. I too try to have them eat healthy stuff. We rarely eat out at all. My almost 17 year old son eats out at subway with friends after tennis lately... he works there too, so I guess he could be next door at Burger King or somewhere. I try to make homeade food ...

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mimi wrote:I hope I can be helpful for others here.

Oh, you are! And congratulations!

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So there was a pizza party tonight for our church youth group and I actually skipped a meal, yes skipped , just so I could have 2 plates of pizza (legal in my book) and they ran out before I could get back for the second!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It took the ride home for me to feel satisfied. Fullness came ...

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Short and simple... so I look better and so I won't die as soon.

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You're welcome! It helps me just as it might anyone.

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Just a few gathered quotes: â€œTo lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.â€ ~ Benjamin Franklin â€œTo rise at six, dine at ten, sup at six and go to bed at ten, makes a man live ten times ten.â€ ~ 16th century proverb â€œBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.â€ ~ Mark Twain "...

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Thanks, this was cool. I too don't like breakfast. Im frustrated that people are told to eat more often to loose weight. bogus. I especially like this: â€œTo rise at six, dine at ten, sup at six and go to bed at ten, makes a man live ten times ten.â€ ~ 16th century proverb I do not get enough sleep....

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I say do what works for you. I've tried the weighdown diet for years and it was working for quite a long time, but I now feel the need for external structure. If I ever get to goal, I may go back as I think that is how we were meant to eat.

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As I near the weekend, I feel the need to bump up the "sometimes" thread for a bit of wisdom. http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=117916#117916 I like what Nicloe said "I have reinstituted sometimes, meaning NEVER (with occasional exceptions), with great success the past two weekends. I do...

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As I embark on a new/old way of thinking about the sometimesian traditions, I feel the need to bump this up. I've totally ignored the word thus far, and am going to tackle it this weekend. I like what Nicloe said "I have reinstituted sometimes, meaning NEVER (with occasional exceptions), with great ...

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I will be starting a May challenge soon, so start thinking about a goal!

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I just spent a year and a half totally unable to do 2 green days in a row, and now I've gone a month and a half all green except for one red day when I ate one darn cookie. What I'm doing different now is that I got very strict and serious :evil: (on a Wed.) and told myself that I was going to finis...

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I'm not usually even hungry until around 11. Sometimes I eat breakfast early, but then usually feel yucky compared to normal. I don't know if I've trained my body to wait, but I've tried eating the "3" and don't have as much energy and end up eating all day long... it's like once I start I have a ha...

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I had a double good day today... just sayin'

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No snacker ~ I have that. I actually have one of those tiny picture albums full of incentives like a horrible fat picture of me, a thin attainable picture of me, realistic pictures of others I'd love to look like, the best quotes, and things to remember. I take it out once in a while, but I should m...

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Welcome back to the twin cities! I lived in Shakopee for 15 years before moving here. I'm a Minnesotan at heart and only live 5 miles into Iowa. I had to move to the Lakes in Iowa to pretend I was still in Minnesota.

You're doing great this month by the way!

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You not only are on track... you are a freight train that won't stop full speed ahead. You probably don't feel that way, but I thought I'd give you that visual since it's almost boring how plain green and yellow your month is!

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Those Mondays can be evil!
You're doing great! You're getting close to your 2nd 21 straight. I'm jealous. Way to gain the habit!

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research that shows that students' writing tends to get better with practice whether they get feedback or not. Wow! So does NoS!!! I had to scroll down to find this... Uh oh...you can do it! Finish the month off green! Count those plates! We're here for you! Show us how you can do it! :wink:

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no snacker ~ way to get control on Mondays! Those are tough! zippadee ~ almost boring how perfect your behavior is... sweetness ~ doing great! You probably traveled right over/by me! jbell ~ plenty alright! KL ~ you even missed a couple Sdays! And you didn't die!!! Come on guys! You can do it every...

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I did not eat that cookie nor any other evil thing! :wink: Like I just told someone that said that they needed a slap upside the head: You sound like me and the thing that gets me on track is cold-turkey-no-debating-it-this-is what's-going-to-happen vanilla No-S. Break the control that food has over...

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You sound like me and the thing that gets me on track is cold-turkey-no-debating-it-this-is what's-going-to-happen vanilla No-S. Break the control that food has over me. It gets easier and easier the longer I comply. Or, sometimes I just need a shocker, like my son telling me that I'm killing myself...

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There are so many of us with streaks of green and yellow!
We should be feeling very proud of ourselves!

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I was stuffed all weekend. I'm going to try to adopt the "sometimes" in the rules for No S. I've been avoiding it for a long time and thinking of S days as a green light to go for it!

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Since you are doing so well, I'd treat them all as usual. If your day is very long, maybe swap one meal from one day to the other? I'd try not to adjust very much as that weakens the plan, and No S fits into any situation I think. Now if I could only take my own advice...

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I found it on the boards. I should watch it once a week.

Vanilla is fine today. I want to try my bestest

to have a weekend that is basically N but with a couple S events. Keep those flood gates shut!!!

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Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaInS6HIGo if you need incentive to exercise!

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Boy I needed this today! I love both

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So, yesterday was vanilla again and I ate very high calorie foods that DID fit on my plate. For lunch I had an entire Godfather's mini pizza and a banana. Supper was a heaping pile of spaghetti with way way too many meatballs and some grapes. I went to bed feeling so full and mad at myself. I felt y...

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oh, you guys are so sweet! I love this place. Thanks for the encouragement and advice. I am listening to all of it and boiling it all over in my head.

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I have 80. I feel that I need to loose some quick just for motivation. It's hard to accept yourself enough to want to try. :cry: I counted yesterday and I'm very happy about it. I might try doing a couple "boost" calorie counting days a week and see what happens. I have stayed the same for almost 3 ...

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how sweet!

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Oh, thank you so so much you guys. I am feeling very frustrated. I always want it to go away FAST! I have a hard time with patience. If I could take my own advice I'd be fine and hold out. My friend really got to me today. And to top it all off, my computer is having some serious issues and only eve...

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So many things messing with my head today: 1. I'm frustrated that I'm not loosing 2. My mom gives me articles that she has found... I can choose to read or not. I read this one that basically was from a doctor saying that to loose weight we need to keep eating lowfat and healthy filling foods to not...

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Yep, and then I feel either like eating whatever all day or fasting. It's like my mind goes to the extreme. I need to stay in the middle and sane with vanilla NoS.

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Binge weekend :oops: sad :cry: MAD :evil: regretful :( determined :wink: ... yea, I know... stand up brush the crumbs off and go on, but I REALLY need to curb the weekends. I have stayed the same for 3 weeks and it's all because of the weekends. I need to come up with a plan that works for my S day...

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This should be my theme. I so need to remember this. I have little patience.

Thanks for the visual!

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ooooo sounds good. I was thinking maybe I'd try some type of thing like that. Does it taste watery? I was thinking all milk maybe? I found this recipe online and I think I'll go try it now... Warm milk 1C. milk 1 tsp. vanilla 2 T sugar (but I'd try stevia. How much do you guys think?) 1/4 tsp. nutme...

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yea, new people. :D Feel free to join in anytime. The more, the merrier! Ann ~ I hope you feel better. Oolala ~ even God rested after 7 days. :wink: sweetness ~ I get sick form caffeine, but I'd loooooove to come up with a caffeine free healthy hot chocolate. This winter I made an incredible white ...

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I know... and I know what to avoid. I'm never hungry or tempted until 11 or so, then I eat brunch. I eat supper around 5:30. I have tried many times to eat a small breakfast but my tum starts to growl around 10 then and I end up eating all day long. Grr.. And I know I can't have tempting things arou...

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I failed! A single cookie ruined my 30 day streak!!! I was outside doing yard work and really getting a lot done, so when lunch time came, I ignored it thinking that I was being an extra-good girl! Ha! It backfired! When I finally got done around 4:00 I was ready to eat the table, so I made myself l...

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Congratulations ladies!

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If anyone cares, I post my long-term weight loss on the first page here.
Beware, it's a very long, sad, learning, journey on a rollercoaster... but it's headed down now!

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I tweaked for the past year and a half and it got me nowhere but back to ground zero with my weight plus another 5 pounds!!! I decided to try very strict vanilla, and treat it as my last chance, as that was how I was feeling. I was making ammendments constantly but in the end they are all just ways ...

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Kl ~ you're there! Your 21st day is here! You're going to finish perfectly! Right?

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Welcome and you're off ot a great start!

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N days are becoming default! It was so nice getting back to N days of no struggle. I'm not nearly as tempted on N days as I am on S days.
NoS means NoStruggle for me!

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The best way to avoid snacking for me is to decide firmly that it isn't an option, then clean out the house of all snacky stuff. If you can't find it, you can't eat it!

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Boy, if you need an incentive, read the yearly testimonies. Starla's really got to me today! If only I'd have been strict all along. She only had a few reds during the year and she lost 65 pounds.

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This is a re-post from a while back. It was a total eye opener for me! It gave me a real boost. Monday I issued a challenge to be green for the whole month of April. So yesterday, my last day of March, I thought I'd allow myself a couple innocent bites... Then last night when I stepped on the scale...

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Ooolala, I love your confessions. It reminds me of when I wrote down some snacks one day and totalled it up. I was shocked. I think I'll go find that and bump it up on my "daily". I know it was a huge eye opener for me!

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One more thing...remember the peanut butter brownie that I saved for my S Day. Ended up not eating it. :shock: Took one bite and decided it just wasn't good enough. Gave it to one of the kids. Wow! Something is happening to me. :lol: Yea! It's working! The longer I go with having strict green days,...

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Sort through those thoughts! It all helps. Keep going! You're doing great!

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many are saying that more sleep is conducive to weight loss. I keep hearing this too and I tend to agree. I know that I seem to want to snack mid-afternoon when I'm tired but not hungry. I've heard that people subconsciously eat for more energy when they get tired. I for one have been totally sleep...

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Yeah, someone once said to use chopsticks so that you would eat less. You should see how good I am with chopsticks. absolutely hillarious! Almost as bad as taping my mouth shut. I may try this one! I most certainly WILL try my left hand though! I'm gonna, I'm gonna! Especially with popcorn. :wink: ...

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I stayed green after a 5 day weekend! I only took the 2 S days and a tiny S event. Yea! Back on track! The more "on-track" I stay, the more "default" it becomes! I am going to try the suggestions of eating with your non-dominent hand while eating poporn and eating with chopsticks. Popcorn is so mind...

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I find that when I set a 5 minute minimum of exercise for myself, I almost always go over.

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O.K. I went a bit far with the peeps... and jelly beans... and oh, those reeses eggs! Good thing Walmart ran out! I checked. Those little eggs are way too good. I'm working hard to get back on track after loosing control all weekend. I did have the same weight this Monday as I did last Monday, which...

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It's a tad hard to gain control after a long weekend... but lets do it!

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Nosnacker ~ Well... I did say a "few", which technically can be several more than a couple

hahaha
Anyway... You did it no snacker! You made it to 21!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoo!

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If I go by what the charts say... http://www.weightwatchers.com/health/asm/calc_healthyweight.aspx# I should weigh between 128-160. doctors tell me that I am big-boned, which I pretty well knew already. I picked the top number to be realistic. That being said, I need to loose 80 according to my top...

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Come on Butterfly... you CAN do it! Be strict!! I know for sure you can do it!!!! Show us you can do it! Find some other thing to do instead... go to bed early? Crochet? Paint? Go online to see who else on no S is havong trouble at that moment? Slam more water than you ever have before and see if y...

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