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- Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Who's kidding who?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 30006
Hi. I'm in the same boat. I've *technically* done a perfect month -- three plates and nothing else -- and I know I'm putting too much on my plate, so I suspect I'm not losing. I'm not measuring yet. However, I am gaining something -- this first month has given me a strong momentum. Three meals and n...
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:11 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: How many food decisions do you think you make a day?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26511
choices on weightwatchers.
I decided to figure out just how complicated it is to spend your weightwatchers points. When I tried WW, I was on 24 points a day. I wondered, how complicated is this system? How many choices do I have to make? How many different ways are there to divvy up 24 points amongst 3 meals and maybe a snack...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:54 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Last gripe I can think of.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 35730
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:38 pm
- Forum: Daily Check In
- Topic: Hi there question is tastings
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8213
Re: Hi there question is tastings
I'm a chef and need to know about tasting Well, you can't do your job without tasting, so it's got to be in there. I'd suggest that there is a difference between tasting as a professional, and snacking as a glutton. In an old thread, I put it like this; I'm quite a keen cook, and I happily watch co...
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:01 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Last gripe I can think of.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 35730
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:58 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Last gripe I can think of.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 35730
I did lose on WW. I also about went out of my mind counting, and I'm sure I drove people around me nuts. And even worse was the constant internal bargaining... I decided to figure out just how complicated it is to spend your weightwatchers points. When I tried WW, I was on 24 points a day. I wonder...
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Feeling Like a Glutton! My First S day!!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7272
Re: Feeling Like a Glutton! My First S day!!
I've found that after a while on the diet, eating crap all day just feels unpleasant. I think, long-term, the S-days become more 'standard', with 3 meals and occasional sweets.janiean1 wrote:My goodness I have felt sinfully guilty eating what I have today! I really don't feel so good, either!!!
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:40 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Last gripe I can think of.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 35730
I think a profound lack of some things (vitamins, vegetables, exercise) have been proved to be bad for heath, and people have made the incorrect inverse belief that an excess must be good for you; So while no fruit will give you scurvy, and 5 portions is good for you, ten won't give you super powers...
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:11 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Scale Recomendation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21562
If you want a starting weight go to your doctor and get them to weigh you. Then you can go back in a year and impress your doctor, but you won't have the temptation at home. This is really good advice. I used to visit my local nurse and get weighed, blood pressure, and a quick chat. There's somethi...
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:07 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I lived it.
- Replies: 88
- Views: 66443
This is really interesting. You've been kind enough to explain the norms. Could you explain how people reacted when those norms weren't followed? What were the attitudes to someone who didn't eat the traditional way? Imagine that you'd seen - an adult walking the streets, eating a snack - someone ea...
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:49 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Is it just my crazy imagination, or...?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22808
one thing i'm noticing, i get crabby when hungry .. any long time no-s-ers figured out how to deal with being hungry and not irritable? It'll just go away. It's your hunger complaining at you. Once it realises it's not going to get it's way, it'll shut up ;) And this thread's just started which mig...
- Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:30 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NS
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13991
For, me, an absolute no-snacking behaviour really, really helps. What happens is that your hunger (which I imagine as a kind of stupid, trainable animal) gets used to not eating in the evening. It's like your rational brain trains the slow bit to understand that food isn't an option. If the animal a...
- Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:27 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Better S days Challange
- Replies: 45
- Views: 44542
- Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:20 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Social occasions and Big and Little S-days
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7220
Re: Social occasions and Big and Little S-days
Actually true -- feasts *are* shared holidays (feast days, festivals, fiestas.)Jesseco wrote:feasting seems more natural if done in social situations
- Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:50 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I'm a sugar addict! help me!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 36399
Give it a while. You can't develop habits in a week, so give it a bit more time. What you're looking for is your default behaviour to be three meals a day -- if the N-days are still conscious, then you've not got the mealing, no-snacking habits down. S-days aren't going to be easy. I think you'll fi...
- Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:13 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Just how big is three plates? With Diagrams!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 39475
If plate size were part of the rules I would be one of those who would be forever consulting the Table of Wisdom to see what was Allowable and was Forbidden. ... I've noticed that square plates are all the rage these days. I'm curious about how they compare in terms of area. Anyone have measurement...
- Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:16 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Nutrition, and I just realized
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22652
What is pork cheese? Do I really want to know? PORK CHEESE (an Excellent Breakfast Dish). 799. INGREDIENTS.—2 lbs. of cold roast pork, pepper and salt to taste, 1 dessertspoonful of minced parsley, 4 leaves of sage, a very small bunch of savoury herbs, 2 blades of pounded mace, a little nutmeg, 1...
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Just how big is three plates? With Diagrams!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 39475
I think we all know the people I'm referring to. Yeah, I think I do ;) I think the fact that No-s is based on something as simple as a plate insulates it from this worry, though. What a great review of "basic math facts"! I'm particularly struck by the fact that a 12-inch plate holds almost HALF AG...
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:24 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Just how big is three plates? With Diagrams!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 39475
I really admire and appreciate what you did, but those calculations feel, to me, like an attempt to add some "numerology" to a diet that has purposely taken the numerology out. Not really what I was aiming for ;) Someone on another thread mentioned that she has very long days and was wondering whet...
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:21 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Just how big is three plates? With Diagrams!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 39475
Thanks for taking the time to calculate that! I'm a computer programmer, so it only took a few minutes to create a program to do it. Now, can you add a conversion for the teeny plates generally used for "heavy hors d'oeuvre" parties? Then I'll really be set. How big are these plates? I'll knock som...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Just how big is three plates? With Diagrams!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 39475
Just how big is three plates? With Diagrams!
Well, I lied. There are no diagrams. But there is a table! So, I was wondering about plate sizes. How much food can you fit on three dinner plates? Is it more than four tea plates? Intrigued, I set out to enumerate every combination of plates known to man. And here are the results. A dinner plate is...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:13 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Long Days
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9411
If it helps, one ten-inch dinner plate has the same area as two 7-inch tea plates -- about 310 square inches. That means you could substitute one dinner-sized meal for two teaplate-sized meals and eat the same amount of food. Intrigued, I figured out the combinations of dinner plates and tea plates ...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:54 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Another win for No-S!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9382
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:42 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What happened to sometimes?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 195345
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:43 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I'm a sugar addict! help me!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 36399
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:12 am
- Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
- Topic: Why Does This Work?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14336
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:07 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Nutrition, and I just realized
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22652
I'm becoming very wary of 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods. I've always liked No-S' justification-by-history, of returning to old patterns of eating. I got searching for the recipes used by our slim ancestors... http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=29230#29230 I had a hankering to go looking...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:00 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What happened to sometimes?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 195345
Hey, Reinhard. I think the best reason for 13 words is probably typographical -- try to fit the word 'sometimes' onto the cover, and you'd have to shrink the font right down, and some of the visual impact would be lost. That's fewer sales and fewer people nosing. :) Me, I like the sometimes because ...
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:02 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: A New Fan
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18876
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:52 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What happened to sometimes?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 195345
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:50 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Unfounded Terrors
- Replies: 18
- Views: 25591
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:59 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: 14 minutes?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25000
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:55 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What happened to sometimes?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 195345
Filthy Sometimesian, with your irresolute 'creed,' never able to make up your mind! Brothers! Sisters! Plant feet firmly on the ground and say "Lo it is Saturday, the day of Saturn, which is round and yellow and red, like unto a pizza, that I may feast upon it. And on sunday also, which is named for...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:21 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Unfounded Terrors
- Replies: 18
- Views: 25591
Unfounded Terrors
Hi, All. I just wanted to riff on something in the back of my brain that I think may be a bit of a common theme. One of the reasons I have eaten too much in the past is a kind of unjustified fear of hunger. It goes something like this; It's 3pm. Lunch is starting to subside in my belly. I have a hol...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What happened to sometimes?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 195345
What happened to sometimes?
The original diet, and the one Reinhard speaks about in the podcasts and such, looks like this; No Snacks, No Sweets, No Seconds, Except (sometimes) on days that start with 'S' Whereas the book reads; No Snacks, No Sweets, No Seconds, Except on days that start with 'S' So what happened to the Someti...
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:57 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: granola?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 34715
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:54 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Question about plate size and gender
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11424
I think two things should help you keep on track; 1) if you're eating enough to get to 170lb, then you'll be able to see it on the plate. Just leave off that seventh bratwurst. You probably don't need it. 2) With only three opportunities to stuff yourself, you'll feel bloated by that amount of food....
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:49 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Read The Book?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12084
Another web-first here. There's a whole body of stuff building up -- the nos website, the forum, the podcasts, habitcal, the book... it's good to have different ways in. The forum deserves a special mention, though -- being able to chat about the diet is invaluable. Particularly, people coming from ...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:47 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: That piece of cake
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13521
Re: That piece of cake
This is my second Saturday S day. [...] I had a LARGE piece of cake sitting around that I knew no one else would finish, so I looked forward to it for today. So much so that I inhaled the thing before I ate breakfast! Don't worry about it. This is like learning the violin and getting a few bum note...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:27 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Protein Shakes and Three Plate Rule
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17180
So you are doing this out of thrift, rather than nutrition or weight-loss strategy? You've got tubs of it lying round the house and it'd be a shame to throw it out? If so, I'd consider just biting the bullet, buying yourself some oats, and making yourself porridge instead of protein shakes. Oats won...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:01 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Better S days Challange
- Replies: 45
- Views: 44542
That was very hard for me, as for some years I have had a 3:00 and an 8:00 snack. My snacks were usually healthful, but tended to get too calorie-dense. Anyway, maybe for S days, I will simply reinstitute those snacks! Sounds good to me. Moves you from 'three meals a day' to 'three meals and two sn...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:44 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Clear Boundaries
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12848
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:40 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Better S days Challange
- Replies: 45
- Views: 44542
stevecooper, those are really cute ways (though you might not mean for it to be "cute") but I mean that in only the most complimentary way... :wink: but really cute ways and quite creative ways, to handle this issue. Now if I can just remember them... ha! I'll be having to come back and read them o...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:46 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No S Diet book available NOW on Amazon.com
- Replies: 48
- Views: 119065
I think I actually ordered the book from amazon.com... can't remember, though. Great to see you again here, Steve. Sorry Mungo got the better of you for a bit (though amusing to see him here again, too). I noticed a quote from my Mungo post in the book, on page 72. The "don't think like a nutritioni...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:38 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Protein Shakes and Three Plate Rule
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17180
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:56 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Better S days Challange
- Replies: 45
- Views: 44542
Sounds to me like S-days need their own mini everyday system. The thing that makes the everyday systems work is that they are formulated with such precision and clarity; the twelve words of no-s are really really clear, except for S days. What I think may be needed is a new image paired with a new b...
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:39 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No S Diet book available NOW on Amazon.com
- Replies: 48
- Views: 119065
I've got my copy here in the UK, via amazon.co.uk. I'm a third of the way through. I'd fallen so far off the wagon it'd disappeared over the horizon, but I'm inspired to start again from tomorrow morning. I shall partake of my first no-s meal at breakfast tomorrow. I'm aiming for 08:28, 28th march, ...
- Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:56 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NYT: "overweight people have a lower death rate"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16723
Interesting! I think you're right that in a developed country, you could work up a nice case of scurvy by religiously avoiding fruit and veg, which isn't that hard to do if you are a lazy cook. One thing I've noticed is that if I'm on a diet, I am significantly more likely to get colds. I suspect si...
- Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:49 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NYT: "overweight people have a lower death rate"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16723
I have this theory that people eat [...] food that contains very little of the nutrients which are necessary to be really healthy (vitamins, minerals, etc.). there is evidence to suggest that modern food production methods give rise to foodstuffs extremely low in nutrients. You're suggesting that t...
- Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:16 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NYT: "overweight people have a lower death rate"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16723
I'd be very hesitant to view this as license to chunk up, however. The causality is still up in the air. So many other studies seem to indicate the opposite (on a smaller scale, it's true). Methodological quirks could yet be exposed. Quite right. It could be that the normal-weight category has a hi...
- Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:36 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NYT: "overweight people have a lower death rate"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16723
NYT: "overweight people have a lower death rate"
From the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/health/07fat.html About two years ago, a group of federal researchers reported that overweight people have a lower death rate than people who are normal weight, underweight or obese. Now, investigating further, they found out which diseases are more li...
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:34 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food and Philosophy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41956
Hi, KCCC. The big difference between C and D is about how much attention you're paying to the taste. What I wanted to distinguish between was the idea that you could (C) knock back some kind of bland, nutritious mush which kept your body going, but which had no real taste pleasure, and (D) use tasti...
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:44 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food and Philosophy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41956
it could be easier to discuss methods; I see (1) and (3) in your list as probably pursuing much the same methods, with the difference in how you feel about it. It seems that the methods on the table so far are; A. Mountains to molehills. Slowly reduce the amount of food you take in, acclimatising on...
- Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:49 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food and Philosophy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41956
Sounds like we're on the same page, largely. That's a relief. I think, for the purposes of discussing eating, there are two primary goods. The first is biological health, and moderation is one important way to that. Especially in our culture, where there's absolutely no external limit to the amount ...
- Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:05 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food and Philosophy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41956
The idea of human nature is a tricky one. I suppose we have fixed elements and flexible elements. In a rough split, the fixed elements are physical and the flexible elements are cultural. For example, in a calorie-scarce past, there is an evolutionary pressure which favours eaters who like high-fat,...
- Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food and Philosophy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41956
You wrote "I'm not sure if an ideal of healthy human nature should guide social customs, or whether healthy social customs should guide individual conduct and the shaping of human nature." If you could describe this healthy human nature, what could you do to turn it into social custom? Or is this so...
- Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:19 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food and Philosophy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41956
Aristotle said; He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. I think we necessarily devise arts of eating, but a great part of that is social. Eating and drinking forms the basis for all manner of social interaction; b...
- Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:15 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Portion Plate
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11770
- Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food and Philosophy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41956
I like Reinhart's analogy here, but I think I have a more direct example than poets, and that would be chefs. I'm quite a keen cook, and I happily watch cookery programs. What interests me is that chefs often seem to have a great passion for food, but are not gluttons. Thier passion manifests in rel...
- Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:04 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Yay! A help for hunger on the No S Diet.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 47413
- Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:11 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Bread
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15698
When I first moved abroad, I met someone who said that American bread was way too sweet. That's quite odd; I don't know if that applies in the UK, but I suspect it does; a lot of bread is almost like sponge cake; very light and soft. Certainly, there are other foreign breads I think of as much less...
- Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:55 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Bread
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15698
I've noticed something similar, but I wonder if there's another explanation, at least a partial one. Bread is just about the easiest thing in the world to prepare. You can't absent-mindedly nibble on dried pasta, but you can on bread. Sandwiches and toast are instant food. Maybe, by limiting yoursel...
- Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:01 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: answer to "negative people"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4960
- Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:57 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Negative People
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11495
It's strange, but some people assume that if a moderate behaviour is virtuous, then extreme behaviour must be saintly. So it goes with diets. No-sers practice a moderate form of control. Weight watchers is an extreme form; ergo, it must be more virtuous. So accountancy or abolotionist dieters will d...
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:09 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Organic farming vs. green revolution: new study
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5194
- Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:39 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: HabitCal
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18227
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:00 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Talk me back from the ledge!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13166
Re: Talk me back from the ledge!!
Morning, P.
How far are you from your target weight, and how did you come to that figure?
I'm thinking there's a significant difference between, say, being six pounds over what you'd like and being six stone over.
How far are you from your target weight, and how did you come to that figure?
I'm thinking there's a significant difference between, say, being six pounds over what you'd like and being six stone over.
- Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:26 pm
- Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
- Topic: Podcast #30: Introducing the HabitCal
- Replies: 2
- Views: 16121
- Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Counter-intuitive...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7643
The more you know, the fatter you get. Well, not quite, but close; the more brainwork goes into your diet, the more likely you are to get brain overload, give up, and get yourself an IV drip of warm sausage lard. The fun of no-S is that it doesn't allow you to build an over-complicated system, so y...
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:58 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Interesting...maybe not pertinent
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13617
When I get sweets in Europe (mostly baked goods as opposed to candy), my sense is that it's not as sweet, but much richer. Real cream, butter, eggs, and you can taste the richness. Far less sugar. From my very limited experience, American chocolate (Hershey's) is even worse than British chocolate (...
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:50 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Interesting...maybe not pertinent
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13617
Re: Interesting...maybe not pertinent
They did not like it. And why? They said it was "way too sweet". Noticed the same with milk? if a person drinks whole milk, they'll hate skimmed for being watery; people who drink skimmed hate whole milk for it's overpowering richness. Similarly for brown and white bread, and fruity and plain yogur...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:31 am
- Forum: Urban Ranger General Discussion
- Topic: Quantifying Urban Ranger for HabitCal
- Replies: 22
- Views: 41219
If you enjoy reading Xenophon, I suspect you'll enjoy Rome. Nice and dramatic, and fairly historical, I think. Season 1 covers Caesar crossing the Rubicon and becoming dictator; Season 2 covers the conflict between Caesar's killers, Octavian, and Mark Anthony. Elvish I can't do. And I'm relatively p...
- Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:12 pm
- Forum: Urban Ranger General Discussion
- Topic: Quantifying Urban Ranger for HabitCal
- Replies: 22
- Views: 41219
Explorator urbium sum
I've been watching the new series of Rome recently. That must be what put it into my head. ;) Explorator urbium sum Ambulato; ista res ago. Urbs locam incultus meum est. Ovid must be spinning in his grave ;) Actually, as a play on In vino, veritas -- I like In vias, feritas -- In the streets, wildne...
- Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:10 pm
- Forum: Urban Ranger General Discussion
- Topic: Quantifying Urban Ranger for HabitCal
- Replies: 22
- Views: 41219
Some ideas; Utility; "I walked somewhere, and it wasn't to or from my car" "I walked to one place outside my street" (a shop, work, a friend's house) Time; "I was on my feet for 14 minutes" Distance; "I walked 14 stadia" (1.6 miles) "I walked 14,000 cubits" (3.9 miles) "I walked 14,000 paces" Energy...
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:13 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
As zoolina mentioned we are not scientists and this discussion is limited in that direction. The question of expertise is a difficult one. Real knowledge can take a while to aquire. That said, I have found it relatively straighforward to get to the actual research, and have found it relatively acce...
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:19 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
Re: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
Yes, I started getting a veg box because it's better for the environment (no agricultural pesticides, and fewer food miles because it is from a local farm) Good on you. I like the idea of food miles, particularly -- given that most stuff is transported by burning oil, which is quite demonstrably sc...
- Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:46 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
Re: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
What is left to eat?! And I was feeling so virtuous getting a weekly organic veg box. All food is poisonous, to some extent. But that's generally OK -- we've got kidneys. ;) Hell, the weekly organic box has got to be good for you; I'm guessing you're eating less crap, generally, right, and getting ...
- Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:41 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
Hi. I'll do my best to answer the questions with the best quality references I can, rather than Internet Logic ;) Are plant toxins specific to one kind of parisite, or to all of them? This paper suggests that plant toxins come in many forms; herbicides, insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, etc. S...
- Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:50 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
And sure, H2O is a chemical (or is it, are all molecules chemicals? Whatever.) and yes vitimins are chemicals. Yeah, everything is a chemical. Saying something is full of chemicals is basically saying 'it is made of "stuff"'. It's also a rhetorical way of saying 'it's full of evil ' But surely whil...
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:29 pm
- Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
- Topic: Maybe this should be my 2007 during...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12314
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:20 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: A 90% diet solution -- in 2 words (podcast)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 40051
Reinhard wrote: "Why don't snacks diminish our appetite beyond an immediate few minutes? I suspect that our bodies simply don't really register them because they make no sense" Gastric Emptying I had a look for ideas around the net about the way the stomach clears itself. The medical phrase seems to...
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:06 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: A 90% diet solution -- in 2 words (podcast)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 40051
I always thought the No-S diet was over-long, and mostly padding. Now you admit it. Fourteen words indeed! I liked this one. I've read the start of the paper you recommended -- so far it looks very accessible, and I'd suggest people go off to the source and have a read. Snack-Meal Independance; What...
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:21 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
Thanks for those big posts, guys. Both very interesting and well-argued. The Good Old Days One thing that runs through both arguments, and much of the discussion, is contention over the idea that there were 'good old days', in which people ate naturally and thrived on it. Phil says "we are not compa...
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:27 am
- Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
- Topic: Audiodidact (Input)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 38542
Librivox
For those of you looking for a source of audiobooks; http://librivox.org/ is an attempt to take texts from Project Gutenberg, which gathers public-domain literature, and dictate it all onto MP3s, and put them into the public domain. Or, free quality literature available for immediate download. Sweet.
- Thu May 17, 2007 4:50 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
My post also say read the book. If you read it you will find reference to the many scientific documents, books articles, manuscripts… The reviews put me off the book, big time. The book itself, it seems, recommends injecting yourself with hormones to lose weight -- an approach I'm not going to subj...
- Thu May 17, 2007 1:27 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
Re: genetically modified food
If you want to get more details how weight gain is related to genetically modified food read “Weight Loss Cure” by Kevin Trudeau. I looked it up on amazon. The reviewers almost universally panned it; it scores an average of 2 out of 5. One reviewer revealed the core of the system; "you have to get ...
- Thu May 17, 2007 1:12 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
I apologise about not having enough time to answer everyone's points directly! I'll do what I can. Milczar, I'm concentrating on your point because it was so short, I think your point sums up a common feeling, and I wanted to go into a single, small example in some depth. I think it is common sense ...
- Tue May 15, 2007 6:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
Re: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
Florafloraflora; You wrote "I'll play, even though I think the debate is probably pointless, especially if we're just flinging around assertions without any special background in farming techniques" That's part of the point, really. I'm throwing around statements in direct contradiction to some comm...
- Tue May 15, 2007 5:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
except for the idea that organic foods make us sick because they spoil faster. I don't buy that and I don't need a scientist to prove it to me. Yep. That was one of the ones I made up out of the blue. I have heard that food used to be more likely to cause food poisoning, but I can't quote a source,...
- Tue May 15, 2007 5:02 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
Re: genetically modified food
The most significant components [...] in weight gain and obesity are food additives, chemicals, and food processing techniques. [...] it is not really the calories Wow. It's not calories. It's aspartame. I'd never have thought that, because, well, no doctor I've ever talked to ever mentioned it. Th...
- Tue May 15, 2007 7:38 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food quality; Devil's Advocate
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60355
Food quality; Devil's Advocate
Hi, All. I didn't want to hijack the current quality of food matters thread, but it got me thinking about our attitudes to food safety. I'm going to make a few statements, and I was wondering if anyone could knock them down with any firm evidence. They swim against the current fashion, but just as a...
- Tue May 15, 2007 6:42 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: quality of food matters
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15929
Re: Organic food and weight loss
One of the reasons of today’s obesity is chemicals in food. Organic food is much healthier option. No, it isn't. There is a dearth of evidence that organic food is any better for you at all; AFAIK, no large-scale studies have shown any health benefits to eating organic food. I have to take issue wi...
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: HONEY
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28268
Thanks for the kind words, guys. Freud called it 'the Id', but I prefer Mungo. I like the idea that, instead of considering yourself to be a single rational entity, there's something more like a mob or council of voices; sometimes, singling them out can help clarify a situation. I may have more to p...
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:33 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Elizabethan dieting wisdom, and a cure for sea-sickness.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13596
Elizabethan dieting wisdom, and a cure for sea-sickness.
While thinking about diets today, I recalled an old story from an Elizabethan author I'd like to share; There was a cunning Doctor at his first going to sea, being doubtful that he should be sea sick, an old woman perceiving the same, said unto him: "Sir, I pray, be of good comfort, I will teach you...
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:57 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: HONEY
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28268
I tend to think that No-S is all about training a really, really stupid part of the brain. This is the bit of your brain that talks like this; "Me like sweeties. Me like LARD. Cake GOOD. Want MOOORE." The idea, then, is to get this poor reprobate of a brain to accept that for five days out of the we...
- Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:07 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Restrictions, rage and relapse (I love alliteration!)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 40007
- Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:24 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Restrictions, rage and relapse (I love alliteration!)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 40007
free-range dieting
This post made me think of free-range and battery-farmed hens. The difference between these hens isn't whether or not they are caged (they both are) but how tight the cage is. And how happy that makes them. Free-range hens live within a definite boundary. But they get freedom within that boundary, e...
- Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:41 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: ANYthing?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10861
- Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:48 am
- Forum: Urban Ranger General Discussion
- Topic: Urban Recon; Urban Ranging remixed.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19044
Week three was a bit of a washout, because I overdid it in the earlier two weeks.
From now on, I'll be running monday/tuesday and thursday/friday, and having a break on wednesdays.
I've also photographed my route and put it up on a flickr map;
Map of the Route
From now on, I'll be running monday/tuesday and thursday/friday, and having a break on wednesdays.
I've also photographed my route and put it up on a flickr map;
Map of the Route
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:43 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Night sugar cravings! Please help!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14667
My experience so far has been that my appetite is like a child; if I indulge it whenever it shouts loud enough, it learns that it can get what it want by shouting more. For me, being very strict through the first few weeks has put my appetite in it's place; I think I'm not feeling hungry between mea...