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Succcess,
Actually my total food intake is decreasing still. Even sitting in front of the tube watching a ball game, I doon't the decire to just sit and snack nymore.

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I saw the ads for the show. I wondered, why we as a culture, think Kirstie Alley (or Kim Kardashian, Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, Dog the Bounty Hunter, etc.) are culturally relevent?

I hope Kirstie Alley can lose her weight, and get healthy, and I hope she can be an inspiration for many.

Over43 · Success baby! Plus a 40 minute Airdyne ride at 5:00 AM. Maybe a sauna tonight.

Success baby!

Plus a 40 minute Airdyne ride at 5:00 AM.

Maybe a sauna tonight.

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It could be. We'll see. But I seem to be "needing" less food daily. And to be honest, I think less about food.

I'm still "hovering" at 180 lbs. But, I'm starting to lose "size". The belt(s) were down a notch today, and the medium shirts are starting to fit better.

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I came across this link on Jimmy Moore's forum.

http://www.physorg.com/news189782584.html

I seem to also be less apt to eat more when I scramble 2-3 eggs in the morning.

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Even though she has a potty mouth, I find Jennifer Anniston to be spectacular.

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Success

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A Success day. Dinner was "borderline. Had a Jack in the Box gourmet grilled sandwich, have a bag of small fries, and half a regular shake. (I have noticed shake prices have gone up, the the actual size of the shake has shrunk...) I'll count it thuogh since I had under eaten the rest of the day, and...

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I haven't used my kettlebells in sometime, but I have taken them to work with me in the past. Pavel T. has a system that he calls "greasing the groove", every hour do a set of 5 reps of an exercise throughout the day. One arm presses are always the safest. My 8th graders find the kettlebell a bit al...

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Maybe a silly question, but "normal" sized plating make me feel comfortably "full". Just one plate now. Anything more than that (even on a s day) is uncomfortable. Is it possible, as the stomach becomes used to less food it will retract? I guess it can, since gastric bypass patients can "stretch out...

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Easter Sunday: An S day, but for a holiday/eating day my S days are becoming less significant in the total food I eat. The day started well with two meals. Then I snacked lightly just before dinner, had one plate for dinner. Then a chocolate Hershey's bunny, one of those sticks you dip in the "powde...

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I spend all summer in Vibrams. Get funky looks on occassion, but last summer they took me over and around the Redwoods.

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May I suggest "Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster by Exercising Slower" by Stu Mittleman? He believes we don't have to "kill" ourselves to get thinner.

Try the treadmill in your class. I have an acquintance who has his treadmill in his classroom.

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Although I am not Zen, one of my favorite books is "Being Peace" by Thich Nhat Hahn of Vietnam. In the book he reinds the reader to always eat mindfully. I am trying.

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It's not internet rumor about Dean Ornish being refused by Julia Child. It's in his book Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease . I've heard of the Full Plate Diet, but, to me, it's just another incarnation of various high-fiber diets. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing spectacular, ...

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My daughter movd out, and left me with my oak book case (finally). I was putting my books back on the shelf when I came across Christiaan Barnard's "50 Ways to Healthy Heart". I read the "nutrition" recommendations sitting in the sauna today. His first way to a healthy heart? Forget about diets. His...

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4/2 went well, until about 10 PM, and then I hit the cookies. Failure, despite a 40 minute Airdyne ride.

4/3 Success! Three meals, no seconds, no sweets. Also did an Iso 7x workout, plus a 40 minute sauna.

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An initial joke actually. I woke up and weighed myself this morning. I was at 180 lbs. Six pounds less than I was on March 24th, the day I started. I think I'm going to jinx myself with 6 pounds in nine days. I read where many are losing a pound a week, that will probably happen when my body realize...

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Had a great day. Success.

Also put in a Bullworker (Isometric) workout. Forgot to Sauna, which irritated me at midnight when I remembered that I forgot.

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Have any of you heard of the Full Plate Diet? It advocates increasing your fiber slowly over time. The premise is to eat your fiber first so that you get full sooner and won't want to eat as much of other things on your plate that may be less healthy. I, myself, struggle wiht this, as my stomach se...

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I confess I do use some soy products, like veggie burgers and faux chicken patties. God knows what's in them, but they are easy to make and I honestly don't like much meat anymore. I very much like rich cheeses and such, but I don't keep them around because I know I have a problem with them. I used...

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I have read Fast 5, and The Warrior Diet which seems to be similar. I could tell I wasn't going to eb a winner on those.

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FAILure.

Although I did get a good workout in, and a 30 minute dry sauna, the nutrition part o my day was a disaster.

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Calorie Restriction is quite Spartan and I tried it for a day, once. Ate the paint off the walls the following day. Although snacking isn't "EVIL" I believe the continued stressing of snacks by some dieticians, diet "experts, and nutritionists, give many people a false sense of security. When does o...

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3/30/10

Success! Three straight days. Have a good start on 3/31/10 as well.

Worked out with the Bullworker last evening, will get an airdyne ride in this evening.

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... trying to reach 30 Cooper "Aerobic" points per week. Wow! Talk about a blast from the past! I read Dr. Cooper's "Aerobics" back in the mid-seventies. I haven't heard the term "aerobic points" in years and years. Thanks for the virtual time travel, lol. For some good, cheap recipes, you might wa...

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Yes, I came across the statement on the AARP webite today which stated: Snacking is OK, calories are bad. Apparently the diet "expert" who wrote that article for them didn't realize there are calories in snacking? :shock: When I read it the first time I did one of thoe Scooby Doo "Zionks!" :D I was ...

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Not to sound like a basket load of hyperole, but my first real honest effort at No S is fantastic. I started at the middle of last week, cold turkey. I follow the rules, drink milk between meals if need be, (occassionally I sneek a dill pickle which claim to be 0 calories(?)). This last weekend I sn...

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Of all the years n the web I have spent, what does DH mean?

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No S = No Counting.

It is simple.

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Isn't that what we call a successful day?

Anyway, three plates, three meals, and a pint of milk in between.

Plus a 35 minute ride on the Airdyne.

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Ate light today, didn't feel well. Ate a salad, fruits, rice and left over burgundy stew, some cookies a a Coke. Probably 1500 for kc for the day.

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Doing well. Evn though today is not an S day, I didn't snack, had 3 chocolate chip cookies for lunch, and had no seconds. I am findin breakfast is the key, a "bigger" reakfast keeps me satiated until the lunch hour, and also seems to have a carry over. Today breakfast was egss scrambled w/ cheese, 2...

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TryTryTry,

I am arriving a little late to the discussion.

My wife had cancer a few years back, and you are right, once the surgery, chemo and hormone therapy were over (the homrone therapy is never over) there is the "what ifs..." that continue.

Good luck to you.

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I've already started to lose a bit more recently as a result of eliminating corn syrup completely from my diet recently.. Thanks for posting this! :D A friend of my dad's was a big soda drinker a couple of years back. He quit the pop, changed nothing else in his diet, and lost 25 pounds in 5-6 mont...

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Does any one remeber that TV add that says there is no significant difference between HFCS and sugar? (the one with the two teen age boys) I guess that makes me realize you can say anything on TV, no scientific evidence required even for health claims. The producers will push HFCS as long as they c...

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Started yesterday, again, (3/24/1).

Had a spectacular first day (plus 30 minute "ride" on the Airdyne).

Heading into lunch today on task.

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The Tele ads say HFCS is part of a healthy, balanced diet!

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Hey Sparkle, inches happen. I've lost three pounds during the last month, not much...but I have lost inches as well. People are commenting on how svelt I look, hey whatever works.

Good luck.

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My wife bought me Julia Child's book this last week for my birthday. I sat and salivated all weekend looing at recipes. The Beef Burgundy makes my mouth happy thinking about it. I'm going to go through and cook a recipe once a month. One of the critiques of the book is the amount of butter and cream...

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Tonight, stew...

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Water is overrated. I prefer Coca Cola...oh, wait??? But I do. Personally I kind of get a kick out of people who are carrying around a bottle of water constantly, particularly, since the building I work in has an ample number of drinking facets. At www.quackwatch.org they delve into the urban myth o...

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Slim-fast. Not that the skakes are bad, or anything, it's just I was ready to eat the paint off the walls at the end of the day.

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Got both credit cards paid off, completely! One bank started with the, "Well sir you aren't the primary card holder..." I asked the friendly lady if she wanted the money or not. Got it paid!

Next is the $5000 hospital bill. That happens Monday.

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Today, so good so far. Breakfast: eggs, bacon, some Italian bread with olives and spices mixed in, all on one plater. Got a Steel Bow workout in. That felt excellent. Lunch, planning a protein drink about 1:00 PM. Dinner tonight in West Yellowstone. Salad, steak, and a yam if I can get one. Plus clu...

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August 28.

An absolute and utter failure today.

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I just saw a quotue (maybe here) somewhere. To a European as soon as they walk out of a building, they are out of doors. It's all in the perception.

Jon

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Film dude, I have found that on this "diet" 1) breakfast is the most important meal of the day. No joke. And I don't mean a Slim-fast shake, or a bowl of Capn'Crunch, I mean a breakfast that is going to keep you full, i.e. eggs, sausage, wheat toast, oj, a big bowl of oatmeal (if you can stand it). ...

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I have two problems with this study. First, mice are not humans. I always wonder how valuable these studies really are in predicting similar consequences in humans. Second, and more important, the lowcarb diet in this study was also high protein. Low carbs diets, at least done the Atkins way, are n...

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This is too bad. I feel for you, and his family.

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Dumpster Diver? When I was 16 I worked at BK. One day I took the trash out. Some homeless dude was in the dumpster eating 1/2 a Whopper and drinking someone else's Coke. I didn't see him and dumped a can load of trash on him. Poor guy came jumping out of there. I took off running.

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Congratulations on your weight loss. I kind of hover around 180 pounds, sometimes up to 184/5, down to 175. But usually around 180. Last summer (2008), I got up to 194. Not pretty.

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Success.

Also, I have been doing daily Steel Bow 28 (A smaller version of the traditional Bullworker) workouts. So, my tonus is increasing as well. I also add wallsits to that.

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~reneew wrote:Cabbage soup diet... think bathroom...need I say more?

Well, first the gas...then the bathroom.

O.

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TunaFishKid wrote:Tuna shakes? Yikes - even the TunaFishKid wouldn't touch that!

That's what made me remember the event, TunaFishKid.

O.

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That's some good looking pizza. Certainly not Dominoes or Little Ceasar's. That's good looking stuff. Althoug, toward the end it would be tough to skip the lobster ravioli, or the flat iron steak in the wine reduction sauce.

O.

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This is true confession. I had read about a "tuna fast" (eat nothing but tuna, and drink water) on a bodybuilding board probably when the internet first started. So how long ago was this? 1994? 1995? So, I gave it a whirl. People were drinking "tuna shakes", (I couldn't have made that up if I'd want...

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Thursday, all day, I took my 20 year old niece on an 10 mile hike, up and down an 11,000 ft mountain in Wyoming. I hadn't "peak bagged" this particular piece of geology in 5 years.

Still sore today, but it is good to know I am sstill fit enough to incure upon myself such pain.

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This topic has brought out some feeling in folks. I have realized there are 3 things I don't talk about, ever with anyone. 1) Politics, 2) Religion and 3) Dieting. (Except if it is on a specific board such as this being a "diet" board.) Best to all of you.

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Success, again!

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It's not a joke. I am finding, if I don't take he time to sit down, and eat right in the morning, by lunch I'm ready to eat the paint off teh wall. Sometimes I wake up a tad late, and have to pick up the individual I ride with. Unfortunately this means I'm normally slugging down a meal replacement s...

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Most low carb diets won't make a distinction between fruits, some dairy, whole grains, etc. and soda, doughnuts, candy bars, Whoppers with Cheese, and again, etc. They believe (and I don't) that watermelon, peaches, oranges, apricots cause the same insulin reaction as ice cream, chocolate milk, and ...

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Two and a half hours of bike riding is spectacular. As others have stated, on an S day, no big. Plus a glass of milk or a bit of fruit won't wreck anything.

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Not a bad weekend. They aren't "Success" days, but I mostly snakced on fruit, and kept dinner on the 4th to 1 1/2 brauts, and today just one for lunch. Weight is the same, Want to be down to 175-174 by July 31. Sauna tomight.

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Got my SuperSlow workout in this morning. Felt nauseated, either from not eating, or from my bp meds. We'll see how today's eating adventure goes, but, my body fat% is under 20%, around 15 I believe. I'll be back tonight for S or F.

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Faaaaaaiiiiiilllluuuurrrrreeee

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Success. And for dinner, which was a bit late: fruits salad, two slices of French bread and club soda.

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I know the book is not for everyone. I actually did not read the whole book as there was much gruesome stuff about the treatment of animals and the meat industry. I got the idea about it. Since my husband started eating vegetarian, I am giving it a trial and so far I feel really good. I did not sto...

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Five pounds by July 31st. I was 179 this morning. I was 194 at the end of August last year.

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wosnes wrote:
Over43 wrote:Wouldn't a flexitarian be an omnivore? On the otherhand I noctice my wife and I eat less meat during the summer. Just seems to be a natural shift.

J.
Technically, yes. But I think "flexitarian" implies that one is eating more plant foods and fewer animal foods.

LOL, OK.

J.

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Wouldn't a flexitarian be an omnivore? On the otherhand I noctice my wife and I eat less meat during the summer. Just seems to be a natural shift.

J.

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I have seen discussions regarding sun exposure and increased weight loss. Just can't remember where? Ahyone else, hear of or read about the relation? I know sun tanning increases vitamin D, and decreases depression. Although it is often accused of melonoma, peple who live in tropics get less colon c...

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mimi wrote:But O43, tomorrow is July 1 and the start of a brand new challenge! Come up with a goal you want to work on the join the fun! Maybe just try to better what you did in June? (number of red days, etc.)

OK,

I want to lose 5 pounds in July. That's my goal.

J.

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www.russiankettlebells.com

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TunaFishKid wrote:
My God, I'm sick of meat. On NoS I looked forward to meals and really enjoyed eating.
(Insert sheepish grin emoticon here.)

I have grown up with ranchers, and cattlemen/women, and I've been there. But only while low carbing.

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Oye...Fail....

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Being a Spec. Ed. teacher, and having had all of my kids matriculate through at least one of the schools I have been at, my daughter got a Face Book message from one of her classmates from summer school who told her her "dad was ripped". I guess sometimes there is a payoff.

J.

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Jimmy Moore is quite a polite, and well informed interviewer. I don't think I have ever listened to one of his shows that he hasn't been very excellent to his guests.

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Did really well breakfst and lunch, then went to a BBQ.

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A very good day today, even for an S day.

No sauna tonight, got sun burnt golfing.

Jon

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Very nice show, Reinhard! Enjoyed listening. Comments are interesting... one person dismissed the whole message b/c she saw a link on this site that went to a CNN report about low-carb being dangerous. Her comments sound almost religious in their fervor - her faith is in low-carb, and if you challe...

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When I was a kid my parents never brought soda home. We drank milk and water (and Kool Aide I guess), but never soda. We did sneak dad's Kahlua. (I sswear this was anew bottle?) But enough of that. When I was 16 I picked up a job at Burger King and my Coca Cola love affair began. To this day, 29 yea...

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My wife bought me a jigsaw puzzle. So I watch baseball in the evening, sip club soda, and do the puzzle. It keeps my mind occupied.

J.

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Failure today. Breakfast was good.

Lunch not so, had a doughnut and a Coke. (Why you ask? It was there...)

Dinner should be better, salt pork on white beans, salad, and club soda.

So, I will redeem myself tonight.

Excerise, have a SuperSlow sesssion planned. Then a sauna.

J.

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Over43 -- it was woman's world (not day) and LA Loser pasted the link above. Here is is again: Reinhard[/quote] Thank you. I read it. Especially the part where occassional binging will increase metabolism 14%. I recall on my low carb days, on Sunday (yes, even during induction), I'd have a Coke and...

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This may have come up. But my need to snack increases exponentially if I have idle time, sitting in front of the tube (but interestingly, not in front of the computer), or if I don't keep busy. I'm teaching summer school so the need to snack has decreased, but when I'm done and have taht 6 weeks off...

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I usually have 2-3 eggs scrambled, two sausage links (or bacon), a slice of sourdough or whole wheat toast and about 6 ounces of orange juice. I find if I don't a substantial breakfast then the rest of the day is often shot to heck. Sometimes I'll grab a quick breakfast at a drive thru. I have found...

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Isn't it a psychological thing? You reach into a bag of chips, or a bag of BK and eat. Put it on a plate, look at it, study it, and become repulsed. Today I was in a hurry, so my first meal was a bacon egg burrito from BK, with the tots, and an iced mocha. I ate the tots until I got to work, spilled...

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That woman's Day article is what brought me here. I tore it out and it took a few (6) months to actually find the site and read it, but I sure wish I'd have done it sooner! Thanks again Reinhard... you deserve more publicity! :wink: I tried to find the article at womansday.com but no luck. I'd like...

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I think I'm going to add more. As I read the incoming comments about the podcast today the typical "food fear" respondents are starting to crawl out of their comas and commenting about how No S can not be "nutritionally" good for you. I appreciate what Jimmy Moore has done, and admire him for his we...

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Very good job on today's broadcast. You came across clear, logical, and as stated directly above me, not some crusader asking all of us to cut out a complete food group from our diets.

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Thank you. IT would be good if I could read and write at times. Edjumecation ain't done me much good.

Jon

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Here is the direct link Winnie, for you and everyone else who wants to listen in. O43

http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/

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I used to plan one meal while I was in the process of eating a meal. Unbelievable!

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I just caught Jimmy Moore's list of guests for then next six months. Reinhard will be on May 25th. I am looking forward to it, and the discussion. Jimmy says the shovel glove is going to be part of the mix!

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I haven't been around awhile, been busy, getting sued, things like that. But, I am down to three meals a day, no snacks, no sweets and no seconds. I do drink diet drinks. Breakfast is usually either sausage links and a couple of eggs, and 5 oz. of OJ, or a bowl of Wheaties with a slice of sourdough ...

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Monday, April 3rd 2006 Morning Exercise: 14 minutes of pushups, hammer swinging, and rope skipping Breakfast: smoothie and some almonds Lunch: spinach salad with 1/2 apple, kidney beans, and veganaise Dinner: baked salmon, baked plantain, couscous, baby carrots Urban Ranger: 1.6 miles Evening Exerc...

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I'm down 8 pounds (to 185) from a month ago. Thursday I was able to jog (About 4.5 mph) on the treadmill for an hour. And yesterday, while playing golf with my wife, was able to wear a medium Polo without looking like Drew Carey in a singlet.

Twenty pounds to go.

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April 1, 2010

Re: This really is Fantastic

Snacking is OK, calories are bad???

This really is Fantastic

Today was an N Day...

3/27/10

O43 Check-in

But Wait!

I am happy today...

August 28

The worst thing you've ever tried while "on a diet"

Monumental, well kind of...

Breakfast...the most important meal...

Sun Tanning

Re: I'm an idiot.

Gettin' Ripped...

6/29/09+No S=No Success!

A Soda Solution...maybe

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Update 8/31/08