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My new personal tactic is talking myself through what I need and what I want. I try to assess whether I am really hungry and only eat if it has been a few hours since I last ate. On vacation... I am hoping to tell myself I am "too busy" doing this or that activity to stop and eat more when I am not hungry. If there are…

11/1: 217 11/4: 215 Loss: 2

Ht: 5'4" HW: 230 CW: 216 X-mas GW: 195 UGW: 145

I have been treating myself with shopping each week to keep motivated. I suppose I will take another trip to Target if I meet 10 lbs this month!

11/1 Starting Weight: 216

I read about a program which uses the stop lights for identifying how much and how often a kid can have a food... fruits and veggies are "green" you can have them all the time and yellow are the foods that need to be eaten in moderation and Red is for junk food and pizza and unhealthy foods. You only get so many red light…

Good to have a reasonable goal! Yay! Current: 217 End November: 207

Vanilla Soymilk... It tastes way better than milk or half and half or anything else to me! 100 calories for a cup.. plus amazing protein and said to be great for women to have a little soy every day!

Do you mind sharing the website-- I am a vegetarian at least and I want to move in a more whole-vegan direction, I would love to start being more conscious when buying clothes and other products! Thanks!

Some great books on being vegetarian and vegan are: The China Study (Research on the health benefits) The Kind Diet (Alicia Silverstone) The Veganist (another book which goes through so many reasons why! Also has awesome personal stories to read too!) I am sure you can find all of these at the library like I have :)…