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    Quantity of food - Eating Raw vs Cooked

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    MangoLainey
    on 08-17-2008 at 11:37 AM (title)
    August 10th, 2008

    I was just munching on a raw cob of corn (which was surprisingly yum) and came up with a question, or two, ok, maybe three ...

    Why can you eat 4 cobs of cooked corn, but one cob of raw is sufficient and you don't really want anymore?

    I understand the concept of "whole/balanced food" but can the brain/cells register it that quickly???? Even if you are overweight ... isn't it true that the aborption of nutrients is slowed down ...
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    1st Restaurant experience was a Triumph!!

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    MangoLainey
    on 08-12-2008 at 10:02 PM (title)
    Tuesday August 12th, 2008

    Met up with my friends from teacher's college tonight for dinner a favorite restaurant we have always gone too. It went great! I ended up emailing head office telling them my situation (short and sweet of course) and they offered to do whatever they could to accomodate my "dining needs" - they also called the location I was going to make sure there would be no obstacles for me when I got there. By the way ... I also skipped dessert and instead ...
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    Keeping it simple ... Aug 11th

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    MangoLainey
    on 08-11-2008 at 02:00 PM (title)
    Monday August 11th, 2008

    What a day this has been, and it is only 2:30pm!!!! Ok, so I said my weigh in is on Friday ... well ... oh heck, here's what happened!

    It is Monday so my workout was due for a change. But for hardcore cardio I needed some psyching up. I drove to the gym playing some major based out tunes with a "slightly elevated" volume - it worked. But, once I hit the 30 minute mark of hard breathing and burning through the "I DON'T WANNA ...
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    Keeping it simple

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    MangoLainey
    on 08-10-2008 at 06:38 PM (title)
    Sunday August 10th, 2008

    This is day ... uhm ... I have no idea!! Perhaps, day 4 of eating raw. I tried a bit of it about half a year ago and it just didn't stick - obviously, because I did commit! This time I just started, no big warm up to it - just "Bam" - it worked a lot better than getting closer and closer to a "quite" date and then mourning over every morsel of my last cooked meal ... no dramatics this time, more of an excited feeling about what I will ...
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    Uh-Oh, my 1st Restaurant Exper is in 2 days

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    MangoLainey
    on 08-10-2008 at 11:58 AM (title)
    Tuesday - just 2 days away - I am going to be heading to a restaurant with friends from Teacher's College. We get together every so often. Thing is ... it is a pasta place and with my "new noshin' rules" that is a no-no.

    I have looked at the online menu and there is one option - Garden Salad. One thing I am thinking of doing is "pre-load". In other words, eat before I go and then when I am there I can enjoy the company and munch on that garden salad but not ...
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