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You don't actually sound as if you are as much as 25 pounds overweight. 
Have
you checked your BMI? Perhaps what you need is reshaping exercise.Still 
a
healthy eating pattern like No-s won't do you any harm anyway
Hana
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From: "Reinhard Engels" <beautiful_idiot@...>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:19 PM
Subject: [nosdiet] Welcome CeCe, banakabwe


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> > I am feeling particulary desperate to lose some
> > weight right now
> > because I'm getting married in Hawaii in June and
> > want to look good
> > in my wedding dress. I'm a size 12 and weigh about
> > 170. I'm tall
> > and would like to take off about 25-30 pounds.
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> I got an email last week from a woman who lost 55
> pounds on no-s in 2004. It can be done. But
> psychologically you'll want to keep the focus longer
> term. By longer term I mean life. Not only is this the
> more important term, but staying focused on it will in
> all probability also get you better 6 month results.
> Desperation can be a great motivator, but it's also
> dangerous. It's a great kick in the pants to get you
> started, but it spikes fast, you've got to smooth that
> desperate energy into longer term attention. How do
> you do this? Measure your initial progress in terms of
> days on habit rather than pounds. There is no question
> that if you can manage the days, the days will take
> care of the pounds. But since the days are *directly*
> under your control, the only way you can fail is by
> choice. Choice is hard, but it's what it comes down to
> in any case, and so you might as well start by
> admitting this fact. You can step on the same scale in
> a single day 3 different times and get three different
> numbers. That can throw you. You can eat well and not
> see it register immediately, or go up a pound despite
> your efforts. That can throw you even more.
> Behaviorally you've succeeded, but metrically, you've
> failed. That can't happen if the behavior *is* the
> metric. You can't snack and not snack. You can't have
> seconds and not have seconds. You can't have a
> snickers bar and not. You do or you don't. There are
> no surprises. There is no one to throw you but
> yourself (and yourself is plenty, believe me).
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> > I
> > know deep down that
> > dieting is not the answer and I really feel like
> > this program can
> > give me the tools to re-train my willpower which has
> > been nonexistent
> > in the last several years.
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> A little willpower builds a little habit which builds
> a little more willpower, etc. People go to the gym
> *because* they're weak, not because they're strong.
> They go to get strong. Weakness isn't an excuse not
> to, it's the reason why. Same thing here.
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> To push gym analogy a little further: no one starts
> out benching 200 pounds. You start with just the bar,
> maybe, and gradually work your way up. If your
> willpower just gets you through a few days (or one
> day, or one meal) on nos to start and then you fail,
> don't despair. Try to go one day more for the next
> stretch, then one day more, etc. Unlike the gym, you
> won't have to do this forever. There will come a point
> when habit, like an invisible spotter, will carry most
> of the burden for you. It'll sit there in the gym
> doing a million reps while you are free to move about
> and worry about other stuff.
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> --- banakabwe <mpunduc@...> wrote:
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> > This is surely the wackiest website i have
> > encountered.Also it's so
> > simple that it should work.
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> I'm not sure if no-s would make anyone's absolute
> "wackiest" list (there is some strange stuff out
> there), but I hope it's a contender for "wackiest that
> is also generally useful."
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> > So i am in as of now , i have had all my
> > stray questions or quests for info met by the
> > website and i am
> > looking forward to feeling good.
> > Regards.
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> Let us know if anything else occurs to you. And keep
> us posted as to your progress.
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> Best to you both,
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> Reinhard
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