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Wonderful testimonial -- congratulations and thank you for letting us know! It's great to see how No-s keeps people from veering off into excesses in either direction, of too much or too little. Although more people fall in the "too much" camp today, "too little" is perhaps even more dangerous, and ...

Beautiful "qualitative" update from eschano: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9472 I never really had relationships before doing NoS. I had such a horrendous body image, I couldn't imagine being loveable at all. NoS changed everything about that. My body image, my idea of what constitut...

eshano,

I'm so happy to read this. I love this "qualitative" aspect of No-s that you and others report. Congratulations, and many thanks for sharing!

Reinhard

Got em all. Thanks again!

Got him. Thanks again!

Glad it resonated with you, KCCC! One thing I didn't mention is that I've been reserving part of the back of the daily card for certain status elements (# of alcoholic beverages, weight on 2 scales as part of that ongoing experiment, observation of No-s, and shovelglove routine type). I started this...

I wonder if the Spartan diet (aka "Black Broth") will ever catch on?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_soup

According to legend, a man from Sybaris... after tasting the Spartans' black soup remarked with disgust, "Now I know why the Spartans do not fear death".

Connwishington is no more. Though I'm sure the confusing phenomenon he/she/it exemplifies has not ceased to trouble us.

Thanks again!

For those of you who do not check the everyday systems forum regularly (very understandable, since I haven't posted a whole lot there last year) you might want to check out three new podcasts that are perhaps especially relevant this time of year. They're a revisit of my index-card based "chain of s...

And here's 44 (more or less an addendum to 43, so I'll use the same discussion thread):

The Return of the General

http://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=44

Happy new year!

http://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=43

Thanks again! Blasted them all except the habit RPG thing, which I guess is somewhat spammy but looks kind of cool (and relevant).

Reinhard

OK, blasted that last batch. Thanks again!

Got em. Thanks, jw, Graham!

Congratulations, finallyful, and thank you for this update -- a year on habit is a tremendous achievement! And you're so right not to sweat the "mere" 2 pounds. Put the emphasis on sane, ordered eating and the weight loss will follow. Put the emphasis on weight loss and you will get neither. It's an...

Congratulations on your successful shovelglove restart!

Those underlined words sound like maybe a virus? Anyone else seeing those? Ah, did a quick search and looks like your computer must be infected with something:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937969

Reinhard

Thanks, Graham, LA_Loser -- blasted them all except Shenika65, who remains within my sights...

Reinhard

Got em. I like your 2 step theory... The current anti-spam checks only get members that look like spambots when they register. Probably the solution is to write a script that periodically checks posts and member profiles and deletes or at least flags suspicious posts and profiles, including updates....

Hi KCCC, I'm glad you're still finding the cards useful! I went down to 2 columns for a couple of reasons: 1. Logic: "Work" and "personal" are two logically distinct spheres of activity. They make sense to juxtapose. "Routines" could logically apply to one or the other. They aren't really a separate...

Got em, Graham. Thanks for your continued vigilance!

Odd looking strings of letters in signatures shall not be tolerated.

Just email me the email amazon sent you. Or a screenshot of a portion of it if you prefer.

I'm really not that picky about documentation. Whatever you have (even just a sad story, if you lost your receipt) will be fine.

Reinhard

OK, it's up!

http://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=42

At long last, another podcast episode:

http://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=42

Thanks, jw. psychicsdirectory01 has been banished to the astral plane.

Reinhard

Well "need" is a strong word, but there are circumstances under which it might be convenient to have the pdf in addition to kindle (tools/platforms that read pdfs but not kindle or other ebook formats). But you're right, there's not much need -- mostly I just didn't want ebook purchasers to feel lef...

Alright, I now deleted flowwebdesign and plowed the fields with salt. That particular incarnation of that particular spambot should not trouble us again.

FLOWWEBDESIGN DELENDA EST!

Also, the offer is retroactive. Wouldn't want to penalize folks who were kind enough to buy before I got this inspiration!

(If it becomes overwhelming, maybe I'll reconsider -- but that'll be rather nice problem to have!)

ah, forgot to mention, my email is reinhard.engels@gmail.com

Hi All, Little marketing experiment I just thought of: As an additional incentive to plunk down for a print (or kindle) No-s book, if you email me the receipt, I'll send you a complimentary PDF version as well. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399534040/everydaysyste-20 Curious if this result...

Thanks LA, Graham! Got em (for real this time!).

Reinhard

joasia, testimonials-page or not, congratulations on this tremendous achievement! (For what it's worth, I think it's totally testimonials-page worthy, and I'd be more than happy to help you post pictures if you want -- though as others have mentioned, pictures are not at all necessary if you'd rathe...

Got him.

Thanks, jw!

I'm so happy you like them. I actually have a rough script ready for a new episode at long last (update on personal punch cards/chain of self-command). I would have recorded it earlier this week, but still have a lingering cold and sound a little darth vaderish.

After almost a decade of rarely weighing myself, for the last year or so, I've been weighing daily (on two scales!) simply to get a better sense of my range (and more empathy for all you scale steppers out there). I don't think I've seen a single weekend where I didn't have at least the fluctuation ...

Hi Icewater,

Only limiting factor is clean up time that I don't have...

Current source is rather unattractive.

Reinhard

Dear Emma, Thanks for throwing down the gauntlet here and looking forward to reading more about your continuing experiences with No-s! I felt that my eating was disordered and I desperately wanted order. "Ordered" eating is what no-s is all about. A deep, rhythmic, unobtrusive order. The rules can s...

Dear KCCC, I'm so sorry it's taken me this long to respond to your update here -- it's been a rough 2 weeks on the home front with conjunctivitis, an ear infection, and nasty colds knocking pretty much all of us out at one point or another. A couple of comments: I had found another internet-group of...

Congratulations and thank you for the update! So good to hear that you're still with no-s and that its continuing to work so well for you.

Glad you both liked it! Here's a direct link to the mp3 audio, for folks who who just want to listen: http://thesmarterscienceofslim.com/podpress_trac/web/9297/0/ReinhardEngels.mp3 And also thanks for sticking to your guns when asked about food quality. It was hard to do that! Not because Jonathan w...

OK, think I got them all! (with one exception for the solitary awesome, which though brief at least makes sense it context).

Thanks Graham and LA_Loser and sorry for my delayed response!

Reinhard

Jonathan Bailor, author of smarter science of slim, just posted an interview he did with me a few weeks ago. And I think it actually turned out pretty well. It's the second video from the top (audio only video), and there's also a transcript if you just want to read it. Gives a relatively recent tak...

Thanks all! And no harm in double reporting. Sorry took me a few days to take action. And yes, Graham, that's spam alright. It bugs me less because it doesn't interfere with discussions, but every once in a while I'll do a purge of such accounts (it's been a rather long while). I'm dying to find a b...

Hi Monch,

Think you must have double posted by accident -- I replied here:

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9663

Reinahrd

Hi Monch, First off, sorry for the delayed response. Secondly, I hope you are feeling much better now and that therefore this is no longer a pressing issue! Thirdly, I totally get what you're saying. And there is an option open to you: a token workout that is barely a workout, but keeps the habit go...

Thanks for the update, Jake! Very happy to hear no-s is continuing to work for you.

"Maintenance is progress," so I'm always glad to see updates like these.

May your next six months be more or less like your last (minus a struggle or two), and looking forward to reading about it here,

Reinhard

Got em! Thanks again, Graham.

Thanks! Still on the fence about GoaskAlice but blasted the others.

Thank you all! So far so good! My kids gave me 40 minutes of peace and quiet this morning and my coworkers wrapped my entire workstation in black (including my "agile" sprint cards!). Off to grab a copy of the kabbalah, now that I'm permitted to read it...

If you have a fireplace, a poker or fireplace shovel might work well.

A baseball bat.

Some people use cast iron pans (of course, you'll have to adjust the movements).

Reinhard

"I count plates, not calories. Three a day." This simple principle has enabled oolala53, who turns 60 this week, lose 44 pounds over the last three and a half years. She's now back to what she weighed at her high school graduation. Please join me in congratulating her! http://everydaysystems.com/bb/...

Got it! Thanks.

Welcome back! What shocked me most about shovelglove was how little it takes, if you're reasonably consistent, to get a great, effective workout. It's almost like all your body needs is a signal "yeah, I need these muscles. Don't let them dissolve" and it doesn't take all that many minutes to convey...

Congratulations, oolala53!

Really impressive! Thank you for keeping us posted.

Reinhard

Whew. Got em. That was exhausting. I added some more terms to my crude spam filters. I'm not aware of any effective method of retaliation...

Thanks, guys! Got all the direct links and that brazen spammer who posted here. Now to go after those British furnishings...

Reinhard

Got it. Thanks, jw!

Nice start! Welcome to shovelglove. Ditto ray's advice -- shovelglove can be very safe if you ease in gradually. In my experience, it's much safer than running, at least based on the number of times I've injured myself doing the latter vs. never for shovelglove. Another nice thing about shovelglove ...

Great links, germanherman. May investigate the hand-hardening angle further at some point... When I first started I didn't use gloves, but I found that the combination of heavier hammers and hot, humid weather made things uncomfortable (and of course I wasn't following any of the steps described in ...

Hmmm. I think I'm going to wait for further evidence before launching a strike on this one. Definitely suspicious, but I could see this actually being legit. And there's no actual spam link.

Thanks all who liked! We're at over 1000 now.

Nice! Watch out viagra, here comes shovelglove.

Hmmm.. U-boat tactics. Come to think of it, they sometimes even operate in wolf-packs (innocent seeming post that paves the way for a spam post).

By popular demand it's sticky again!

(sticky note section is a little crowded at present, but it's tricky finding anything to demote -- certainly not this!)

Reinhard

Got him! Thanks again.

Glad to hear no-s is helping with sleep -- that's another routine people need to respect more. And as you point out, they're not entirely unrelated. One thing that has helped me in that regard (besides the 5 am wakeup call from our baby boy) is the knowledge that I'm so inefficient when I'm overtire...

You are very welcome -- best of luck with all your goals, especially the longer term ones! I was rather heavy at my wedding (it was a few months before I thought of no-s), but apart from some less than flattering pictures, everything has turned our alright. Hoping to stay nice and trim for my kids' ...

Welcome, Bnapptural! I turn 40 in less than three months Me too! I do better when I have somebody else's Rules to follow and not my own that I can (and will) arbitrarily modified endlessly. This can indeed be tricky! We're very ambivalent about the idea of "authority" these days, and yet for some th...

Thanks for the update, Ray! Great to hear you're still going strong, and love those numbers.

Reinhard

Got him. Thanks!

I use gloves (and still have slight, but un-troublesome, calluses -- worker's hands!). The gloves have made a big difference, though. Here's the exact brand I use: Harbinger 143 Men's Pro FlexClosure Gloves (Black) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00074T848/everydaysyste-20 I'm on my second p...

Thanks again, Graham!

Got em all (except bigshoe, who is actually legit).

I really appreciate your continued vigilance!

Reinhard

Is humility the key to weight loss? iamtami's testimonial (among others) makes me think it might be!

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9556

Yes, the guest posts are orphan posts whose spambot authors have been vaporized. Would be nice if phpbb got rid of the posts automatically, but it doesn't. Gone now! GGIPunjab looks spambotty enough to be vaporized. He also makes contradictory claims in a post (says he's a student) and his sig (says...

congratulations, iamtami! On the triathalon as well as No-S! The weight wasn't coming off then, but I felt in control of food. And I loved that. It's great that you were able to seize onto this feeling of being in control to get you past the initial period of not seeing results. In a way, it's more ...

First off, you are in a great place. With moderate, sustainable efforts on the diet and exercise fronts, you have achieved that increasingly rare blessed condition: you are reasonably thin and in reasonably good shape. You've got a great "80% solution" in place, and you should be very careful not to...

Late summer is usually a slow time for diet (everyone has given up on trying to fit in their swimsuits already), but No-essers have been steadily plugging onward! Three testimonials to report since my last update here, in chronological order: #1. TigerCrane tried No-s successfully about 5 years ago....

Imogen, What a great testimonial, on so many counts -- raw numbers, "years on habit," no-s habits spilling into other spheres, the serenity and self-knowledge you've attained, and the wonderful way you have of formulating it ("I just have to fake it till I become it.") Congratulations and thank you ...

Thanks, Graham. Got em.

But what about this one?

No mercy for the spambots. When in doubt, vaporize. There are two requirements for participating in this forum: be civil, and pass the turing test.

Reinhard

Vicki, Congratulations, again! As I say every time an "old timer" posts another yearly update, these "maintenance testimonials" are my favorite kind. At at year five, this is among the best of the best. How few "dieters" ever make it that far. Thanks also for continuing to provide details as to what...

Very impressive! Congratulations! It's great to see such lasting effects -- wishing you even more, now that you're fully back on No-s.

I think it's OK not to dive right into 5 days a week right off the bat. Habit is important, but injury avoidance is even more important. And I think you'll be surprised at how quickly your muscles acclimate to the demands of shovelglove -- it won't be many weeks before 5 days seems just fine. I shou...

Nicest of the Damned has just reported that she's now down at least 65 pounds since starting No-s (doctor's scale!):

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9513

Congratulations! That's a tremendous achievement. You've surpassed the founder!

I like it that the spambots are telling jokes now! Guess they still have to learn the different between "funny once" and "funny always," though.

Do you think you are eating excessively at these daily dinners? If not, don't make yourself crazy trying to comply to the letter of the No S Law. Just call it "virtual plating" and enjoy. Another idea would be to do this but make it more concrete: each little bowlful counts as a half plate, or third...

Nice! Of all non-shovelglove gear, I think I find kettlebells the most appealing (although I've never actually used them, except to heft a little in the store).

More good news in the testimonials department while I was on vacation last week: DaveMc has racked up yet another successful "year on habit" (4 years and counting); http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9467 And eschano reported impressive first-year results: down over 18 pounds or 10% of st...

You've now compared me, in different to testimonials, to both Odysseus and Buddha. It's too much, but I appreciate it.

You're not going to BELIEVE what I come up with next year. So don't screw it up!

Got it! And yes, I guess that is good news in a way! When the Norwegians start spamming you, you know you've made it.

(Sorry for the delayed response -- was on vacation with very poor connectivity)

Eschano,

I'm on vacation with lousy connectivity and typing into my phone now, but just wanted to extend a quick congratulations on your success and thanks for sharing it here! I'll respond in more detail when I get back next week.

Reinhard

Dave, First off, apologies in advance for my brevity-- I'm on vacation with miserable connectivity and typing into my phone. More importantly, thank you for overcoming your very natural, hard won desire to stop talking about diet already and remind us of your continued, encouraging success! There's ...

Welcome, b forge! It's always good to hear from someone who isn't just pretending to hit stuff with a sledgehammer. I'm with you that it would be preferable, when possible, to actually use a sledge, or an axe, or a shovel, to do useful work. Or at least to come a step closer by actually making conta...

Got it! Thanks.

Turns out no-school is even worse that school, for reasons that will ring familiar to no-essers: From: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/really-the-claim-children-tend-to-gain-weight-over-summer-recess/?src=recg â€œMany non-school environments are relatively unstructured and unsupervised,â€ t...

ex toothpaste hawker. (thanks!)

Congratulations and thank you for the impressive photographic evidence! (Glad you figured out the upload!) We're on #3 baby as well so I know what an added challenge those darling little creatures pose to sane eating. I always finding it gratifying when people with impressive numbers and other visib...

Nicest of the Damned has posted a "photo testimonial" (including adorable baby!) here:

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9440

Please join me in congratulating her.

Got em. Thanks!

Wow! Congratulations and thanks for the lovely pictures!

What a cute baby. Maybe we'll set her up with our little guy some day.

Reinhard

Got it! Thanks. No, they'll never stop... though they do seem to have slowed down a bit. Probably just a lull before another major offensive.

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3 podcast episodes for the new year

Podcasts #43 and #44: index cards for medium and long term

Podcast #42:Personal Punchcards Redux

Buy the No S Book, get pdf version free!

Smarter science of slim interview

Kids and summer sedentary snacking