Everyday Systems

[reinhard]

I'm a little rusty... so go easy. But now that I've publicly committed to two more episodes, hopefully I'll come back up to speed soon.

http://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=35

Reinhard

P.S. the fact that I got this out at all (and in the nick of time) is a testament to the power of monthly resolutions.

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=56365&highlight=april+resolution#56365

[Thalia]

Reinhard, this is great! Well worth waiting for.

[Pewari]

Great podcast, Reinhard, I enjoyed it!

I'm vanilla No-S-ing (and lost 4lb this month, YAY!) but will probably listen to all the mod suggestions next time just out of curiosity

[winnie96]

[reinhard]

Glad you all liked it and thanks for letting me know!

More soon...

Reinhard

[Thalia]

I really liked the focus on WHY tweaking and bending is a bad idea -- eventually a whole podcast about moderating expectations would probably be useful, because I think that's a very hard thing for most of us.

[KCCC]

Good job, Reinhard! Look forward to the next ones.

I like the rule of thumb floating around the boards that you shouldn't even CONSIDER tweaking until you've made the 21-day club. Not just "tried the vanilla version" for 21 days, but followed it CONSISTENTLY for 21 days. (And longer is better.) While not "months," it at least gives a chance for habits to get established.

Plus, people are more likely to want to tweak in an immoderate way while they're still in "SAD mindset." It takes a while to get out of that.

Longer is better, but that's a bare minimum. If someone can stick it out that long, then they'll have a better perspective on the system before it's "tweaked"... and maybe they'll figure out it's not necessary. After all, it's a very flexible system as written.

Look forward to the rest of the series!

[adamgold33]

Hope to see the next podcast in this trilogy come out within the next week or so! Also, I'm new at Everyday Systems. I'm interested in No-S and Urban Ranger. Message me if you want to talk, I am happy to speak with you.

[~reneew]

That was great Reinhard... thanks! I love the constitution idea. It's so true! I've decided to stop adding tweaks, which for me are really cheats in disguise. The only thing that I seem to not be able to do is eat breakfast, it makes me feel yucky. I wait until I get hungry (usually around 11:00) then eat a brunch... then supper. It seems to be working. I really need your next in the trilogy, don't leave us hanging too long

Though, I looked and can't find where you, Reinhard, have told us how many meals to actually eat! Maybe just 2 is still vanilla No S!?!? What do you say Reinhard? I know that the Bible always talks about eating in the morning and in the evening... no mention of a third meal. Hmm...

Thanks again Reinhard!
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[jessdr]

Yay, a new podcast!

I REALLY like the Constitution metaphor.

I do still plan to keep my mod, but thinking about it like an amendment reminds me that I need to be strict about it. The amendments aren't enforced any less just because they weren't originally in the Constitution.
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[reinhard]

I promise I'll have it out by next week at the latest -- I've got notes for about half of it already. It's great to see that it's resonating with people.

And I may have to squeeze in the phrase "cheats in disguise" -- thanks for that ~reneew!

Reinhard

[davestarbuck]

I did the no starches on s day tweak for a while, but I found it to be unsustainable for me. I'm back to PVNS (plain vanilla no s).

-dave
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