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Hi Chloe,

It doesn't surprise me that you've independently come
up with something similar -- it's not all that
complicated, after all. I'm glad you've been doing
well on your version, and hope the nosdiet mnemonics
etc. give you a little something extra.

Reinhard
--- Chloe Doolittle Jones <skinnybranch@...>
wrote:
> Hello all. I found this group and the nosdiet site
> through a link 
> from Amazon regarding a book I put on my wish list,
> "Naked at Noon" 
> about sunlight (I have severe seasonal affective
> disorder and 
> sunbathing and vitamin D/calcium-magnesium have
> helped). 
> 
> Amazing. I had come recently to similar conclusions
> about how to 
> approach food. The alliteration of the S words is a
> great way to 
> remember the principles. I decided I was not
> "dieting" anymore. 
> Dieting kept me morbidly obese and bingeing, always
> feeling deprived, 
> always overeating (because if I couldn't really have
> a verboten food 
> item then I had to eat as much of it as possible
> when I 
> had "transgressed" because I would never be able to
> eat it again). 
> So I just eat no-sugar meals (in fact just purchased
> stevia and use 
> tiny amounts for decaf and occasionally a
> vinaigrette) and on the 
> weekends and special occasions I eat what I want
> (the difference is 
> that because I know the weekend will come again I do
> not binge--I am 
> not compelled to--because I know I can have those
> formerly forbidden 
> items again). After about eight weeks of doing
> this, my blood 
> pressure is down and my clothes are very loose, so
> loose I shall have 
> to go down a size. I haven't weighed yet, but
> will...The scale is 
> under a table currently being used by my houseguest
> whose house 
> burned down in the Paradise Fire in San Diego
> County, and I frankly 
> can't get to it right now, and when I do I will post
> some stats. 
> Looking forward to seeing the progress of everyone
> here, including 
> me, to regain some sanity so we can live and eat in
> the real world.
> 
> 
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