Everyday Systems

Has anyone seen this article from early 2010? It's great. I love that it advocates "thinking for yourself".

http://www.thatsfit.com/2010/02/08/3-me ... t-so-fast/

Excellent article. His point - that no one strategy works for everyone - is certainly borne out here. We have people who eat four, three and two meals a day.

Me? I'm good with three. I get hungry shortly after waking up and am rarely hungry at night so eating at 7AM, 12:30PM and 6:30PM are just right for me. Since I usually go to bed around 10, I guess I kinda fall into that "eat your last meal 3 hours before bedtime" recommendation. But I'm not pushing my bedtime back to 9 on the nights when we eat at 6.

Interesting article, it would have been nice for the author to link to NO S at the part where they were agreeing that this might be a healthy option.

For me, snacking leads to more snacking to more snacking.

I am like Strawberry Roan...snacking leads to more snacking. I have found a lifetime plan with Vanilla no S. After almost 7 months, it is now second nature. I still have my slips and I still have occasional reds; however, I am not even that tempted to stray most of the time. I also enjoy my food more; yet, I avoid overeating because I hate that stuffed feeling that I get more quickly now.

That said, I also agree that no one plan is for everyone. I am quick to share with anyone who asks how I have lost weight. However, I do not know anyone who has tried No S yet in spite of seeing my successes. My husband is a runner and is not in the least overweight, but he would never survive this diet. He loves his sweets too much.

I totally agree that what works for some won't work for others. I think we're bombarded with so many messages we forget to listen to ourselves. I know that if I'm busy I don't eat. It's free time that is my enemy (and loading up on seconds ). If I'm hungry and don't eat the feeling pretty much goes away in 15 minutes or so. Other people's bodies will operate differently. It makes me wonder if our society didn't start gaining weight when we started listening to 'expert' advice.

Joyofsix wrote:It makes me wonder if our society didn't start gaining weight when we started listening to 'expert' advice.

That's part of Michael Pollen's take on it. (If you haven't read "In Defense of Food," I highly recommend it!) He believes that the culture of eating is as important as our foodstuffs, and we lost that with the rise of "nutritionism." That's when we started believing all the experts and stopped listening to "mom." (Except so many moms have now grown up without a strong food culture that we have to go back to grandmother or even great-grandmother.)

I'm reading The 100-Year Diet right now, a cultural history of American dieting behavior -- and she argues that fad diets came well BEFORE we got fat, and are correlated with us GETTING fat.

KCCC wrote:

Joyofsix wrote:It makes me wonder if our society didn't start gaining weight when we started listening to 'expert' advice.

That's part of Michael Pollen's take on it. (If you haven't read "In Defense of Food," I highly recommend it!) He believes that the culture of eating is as important as our foodstuffs, and we lost that with the rise of "nutritionism." That's when we started believing all the experts and stopped listening to "mom." (Except so many moms have now grown up without a strong food culture that we have to go back to grandmother or even great-grandmother.)

Expert advice and the food industry. They've created products we don't need and then encouraged us to eat all day long.

wosnes wrote:Expert advice and the food industry.
They've created products we don't need
and then encouraged us to eat all day long.

wosnes,
your words are very true.

Oh, my gosh - that is it in a nutshell -

"Expert advice and the food industry. They've created products we don't need and then encouraged us to eat all day long."

Great article, for those of here on No S, we come to realize what works for us..for me, it is 3 squares, snacking just promotes binges for me. Thanks for sharing.