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  • Welcome Sophie, We have very few processed foods. We raise our own chickens (layers and fryers), turkeys, and sheep. We have raised our own pigs and beef. We get our milk raw and unpasteurized from a local dairy. We have a large garden for vegetables and strawberries. Freezing and canning takes time and energy, but we know…
  • Welcome to you Allison. I am Roland. I joined at the beginning of this month. I have 82 pounds left to lose from the original 100. I have never seriously tried losing weight before, but decide, at 51, I needed to for health reasons. I have no known health problems now, but they run in my mother's family, and most are…
    in Hi Comment by rolandgig March 2011
  • My technique is to plan on having one at a set time several hours later. If it is 10am, I would say I can have one at 2pm. Then at 2pm I decide weather to eat it or have it at say 4pm. At 4pm I may decide to wait until evening. All the while I have not deprived myself, and I limited it to one for the day. In the evening I…
  • Congratulations. Time to celebrate by doing something fun!
  • Thank you jojowink for your encouragement. And yes, I believe my family is proud of me. More importantly, I am proud of me. I feel good and have more energy now than I did eating more calories. I can't figure out how that works. I guess I am highly motivated now which may have a lot to do with it.
  • A cross-country road trip! :happy: And my wife and I will be going in June after 25 years of marriage. Our second vacation in 23 years with no kids .
  • Thanks for sharing and showing me that, after I lose my 100 pound pack, I too can maintain it .
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