Everyday Systems

TunaFishKid

I read a great explanation for this once. Someone (wish I could remember who) said that our bodies may actually build fat stores the same way they build muscle. When you want to build muscle, you stress the muscle by lifting heavy weights, which breaks down the muscle fibers. Your body then rebuilds...

TunaFishKid

Well, a lot of the gastric bypass operations deliberately cause "malabsorption" so that you don't really digest a lot of what you eat.... It's not as though the surgery just makes you eat less, it alters the digestive tract in numerous ways .... I think you've lost the thread of the discussion. :) ...

TunaFishKid

If you google it, you can find loads of people post-gastric bypass who sometimes develop severe nutritional deficiencies because of their limited food intake. I googled "post gastric bypass nutritional deficiencies" and it seems that it does happen, but it's caused by an overgrowth of intestinal ba...

TunaFishKid

... can I wait for an hour or so to eat it or would the fruit then become a "snack"?... I feel safe in saying that if an hour has passed, that piece of fruit is now a snack. Let's put it this way...would you sit at the dinner table at home or in a restaurant for a whole hour before eating your dess...

TunaFishKid

Make sure on S-days that you allow yourself to taste some of the "good stuff". Sometimes getting used to a higher quality can help you avoid the cheap stuff easier. This is absolutely true! There was a time when I would eat anything sweet or chocolately. When I started NoS I decided to follow the a...

TunaFishKid

Personally, I've been experimenting with having my weekly S days be Fridays and Sundays, with Saturday as an N day. I find that two S days in a row is a bit too much, and I'd rather break them up with an N day in between. Might be worth a try, unless the time on your hands problem would still be th...

TunaFishKid

In Dr. Dean Ornish's book about reversing heart disease, he mentions that he contacted Julia Child about contributing recipes to his book. She refused, saying "This is not compatible with my philosophy of food." She was the only one he contacted who refused. Go Julia! That's hilarious. Was he compl...

TunaFishKid

That is wonderful news!

TunaFishKid

I just googled no snacks, no sweets and no seconds and nosdiet.com was the first link listed. I was just coming to post the exact same thing! I am appalled at the laziness of so many so-called journalists. I would never have written that column without googling around to see where the "so called S ...

TunaFishKid

reinhard wrote: Sorry for being so crassly self-promoting, but everyone I've discussed this with is harassing me not to let this opportunity pass by.

Crassly self-promoting? Reinhard, you're too damn nice for your own good. If this happened to me I'd be thinking "lawsuit"!

TunaFishKid

Check out the very last paragraph of Jane Brody's column ! Time to contact Jane Brody!! You've got the attention of two people with influence now. Perhaps Iâ€™ll try the so-called S policy Mr. Pollan says some people follow: â€œNo snacks, no seconds, no sweets â€” except on days that begin with the...

TunaFishKid

I used to spend a lot of time reading diet/nutrition forums online, looking for the latest diet news, reading diet books, etc. Between that and eating between meals I was wasting a LOT of time.

TunaFishKid

Reinhard calls calorie counting an "unsustainable behavior". People differ. http://smilies.sofrayt.com/cha/boxing28.gif What is acceptable, and even enjoyable, behavior for some people, is not for others. I have developed a Habit of recording all of my food into a computer software food journal, wh...

TunaFishKid

Reinhard also says "Don't be an idiot" Being an idiot presupposes one has knowledge and then chooses to ignore it. For me, to make intelligent, hence not idiodic choices, requires me to one know what my body needs, in this specific case my calorie burn, and two what calories are present in the food...

TunaFishKid

My calorie burn is 1362 rounded down to 1300 for a weight loss of 1-2#/week. I have lost almost 20# since October 2009 knowing this basic fact about myself. I budget my calorie allottment, much as I do with my money budget and plan accordingly. So Amy's isn't necessarily out of the question, if I a...

TunaFishKid

I used to pour myself a glass of wine while I was cooking dinner...which, unfortunately, often turned into 2 or 3 and also caused me to overeat a lot before and during dinner. When I started noessing I replaced it with a small glass of whole milk. I have something to sip, it's filling enough to keep...

TunaFishKid

Do NOT eat anything you are not enjoying.. ever! I think that is a big part of our eating problem..we eat things because we think we should (for whaterver reason) and not because we love the food. The wonderful thing about noS is that you can eat exactly what you enjoy and skip what you don't like....

TunaFishKid

wosnes wrote:
TunaFishKid wrote: YMMV.)
I need a translator!

LOL - Sorry!

"Your Mileage May Vary"

Translation - What works for me may not work for you.

TunaFishKid

I don't know if I "breakfast like a king", but I do tend to feel better if I eat more in the morning and less at dinner. I can't make it through the morning on just cereal or oatmeal. A big breakfast for me (and my usual breakfast) is "egg in a nest", orange juice and tea. I make sure I put lots of ...

TunaFishKid

And finally, not eating enough carbs...makes me hungry before the next meal ... I noticed that too...interesting, isn't it? I did a super-low fat vegetarian diet years ago and was hungry all the time. That made sense to me, because I know fat is satiating. What didn't make sense was when, years lat...

TunaFishKid

And speaking of cooking (because I did) I enjoyed this piece by Michael Ruhlman. "Americans are too stupid cook" We're definitely bombarded with that message. Have you seen the tv commercial - for McDonald's I think - that shows people ineptly trying to cook their own breakfast, breaking eggs direc...

TunaFishKid

I think one of the problems is deciding calorie values or how food 'behaves' in a lab not the same thing as how it actually works in our bodies. There's also the tendency to pick apart diets - as if you could take one or two items from another culture, like olive oil, and add it to a generally unhe...

TunaFishKid

..."diet-talk" isn't really a hot topic in my social circle... I envy you! At any kind of large gathering I always find myself gravitating more towards the men in the group because the women are always talking about how fat they are (most weigh less than me) and how they "can't" eat this or that. S...

TunaFishKid

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TunaFishKid

I'm good weight-wise and food/exercise wise :) But what I would really like to do is to get our laundry away quickly! My husband does the laundry, then I let it sit in the basket/hanging for days and days before I put it away. Small loads. That's the key. It may not be the "greenest" solution, but ...

TunaFishKid

I thought this deserved a bump up. I told my family right away because I was excited and thought I'd get support. Well... I did for a while, then I'd hear: "Are you supposed to have that?" "it's not S uesday Mom." "Are you loosing?" "that plate sure is full" " shhhh, don't tempt Mom, she can't have...

TunaFishKid

TunaFishKid, Yes, your statement is very true about "Vanilla NoS", except even Reinhard keeps his food amounts down... Notice his words "sometimes"...he doesn't eat extras EVERY S day, and "Don't be an Idiot"...he works to avoid behavior he finds gluttonous...even on S days. However, many of us (es...

TunaFishKid

I'm sorry, but I don't get all the talk of calories or lean ground beef. The whole point of No S is to not to have to do any accounting, whether of calories or fat grams or anything else.

TunaFishKid

Sure, a bacon cheeseburger made from all-natural meat, a whole grain bun, unprocessed cheese and a slice of organic cake trumps a McDonalds quarter pounder and apple pie thing any day for all kinds of reasons---but it won't help you lose weight. I have to disagree with this. The bacon cheeseburger ...

TunaFishKid

Reinhard mentions this in the No S book. Wish I could give you page numbers, but I'm using the Kindle version right now. All I can tell you is, it's a little less than halfway into the book.

(And another ditto from me on "healthy" foods.)

TunaFishKid

It's a wonderful book! There's so much great info there that's not on the site. (Not that you can't do NoS without the book...just that the book adds a lot .) I bought the Kindle version and two hard copies - one for me (I'm kind of a Luddite and haven't quite embraced the Kindle technology yet, lol...

TunaFishKid

2. Lose 15 pounds quickly, gain it back, lose it again, gain it back...repeat this cycle OVER AND OVER FOR YEARS. Actually, you'd probably lose the 15 pounds quickly and gain back 20 , go on another diet and lose the 20 quickly and gain back 25 or 30! At least that's been my pattern for years. I re...

TunaFishKid

This is a great thread! Thanks for all those quotes, Wosnes. I definitely need to get the book. As far as grocery carts go, I found one in a Hammacher-Schlemmer catalogue. It's ridiculously expensive ($69.95) but it's made for modern grocery bags. You hang the plastic bags on hooks. http://www.hamma...

TunaFishKid

2 plain carrots and a tall glass of water now is way better than a pile of cookies and a COKE later .. trust me. ;-) Snacking on something that has almost no calories shouldn't be a big deal, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, plain air popped popcorn, etc. It prevents you from binge eating on bad food l...

TunaFishKid

I said no to ice cream and funnel cake at Six Flags yesterday. Yes it was an S day. But I was trying not to go wild. Then in the evening I pigged out on all sort of junk at home, alone, after my daughter went to bed. So saying no backfired. That's exactly why I started the "I said 'Yes' to" thread....

TunaFishKid

Here is my advice. It's my advice b/c it works for me. I think it works so well that I hope you try these ideas yourself. However, in the end, you really just have try different things and see what works for you. Still, here it is: 1. Focus on habit building not scales, numbers, well-meaning friend...

TunaFishKid

A chocolate Carvel soft-serve ice cream cone with chocolate sprinkles! My husband and I drove upstate to visit our daughter this weekend and last night, on the way home, we were stuck in traffic for hours. When traffic finally picked up a little I spied a sign for Carvel at the next rest stop. I nev...

TunaFishKid

I think it's more important to do what works for you and what you can do for the rest of your life than to blindly follow "the rules." "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Buddh...

TunaFishKid

Here's lookin' at you, kid!

TunaFishKid

Funny you should mention that, MR. Yesterday I couldn't decide what I wanted for lunch, so I had a plate with a piece of sourdough bread, one small chunk each of two different kinds of cheese, a small bunch of concord grapes and a piece of a banana with peanut butter on top. It was probably one of t...

TunaFishKid

wosnes wrote:I'm going to make Chicken Velvet Soup. It's comfort in a bowl.

http://www.momsmenu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3093

Oh, that sounds lovely! I will be making that tonight.

TunaFishKid

NoelFigart wrote: It's about developing good habit and structure, not about reward and punishment.

That's a keeper. Thanks Noel.

TunaFishKid

As a stay at home mom of a toddler, No S is a great structure for me! I can eat three satisfying meals and be full for hours at a time -- so I can concentrate on my son, and not on food. :D Oh yes that's a good one! There is actually time in the day to think about - and do! - other things, and the ...

TunaFishKid

My favorite thing about NoS is the lowering of my stress level. There hasn't been a day in the last thirty-eight years when I wasn't either on or off a diet. And being "off" a diet for me meant being bad, or cheating - still basically stressing over my food intake in some way. It still surprises me ...

TunaFishKid

Kathleen, I agree completely! I am another of the "middle-aged women who have been dieting since they were teenagers" and am making this work simply because I've tried and failed at everything else. Yes, it's slow, but I'm not really on a diet so it doesn't matter how slow it is. I've lot anywhere f...

TunaFishKid

I can't really answer the question "how many tries" because I screw up all the time. I never tried to get 21 perfect days in a row so I never had the concept of starting over, KWIM? I just decided that this is the way I'm going to eat forever, so if I mess up now and then I just go right back to No ...

TunaFishKid

Happy Birthday, Reinhard, and many thanks for the gift you've given me - a healthy dose of common sense. You really have enriched my life.

TunaFishKid

I don't think it's weird at all...I love it. And it reminded me of the saying "Hunger is the best sauce."

TunaFishKid

...a sterling silver ring with three green stones (Mt. Saint Helen's stones). Again, a visual reminder to stay *green* with just three meals a day - no snacks, no seconds, no sweets. Here's what it looks like - but when I got it, I only paid $19.99 plus shipping! http://www.palmbeachjewelry.com/jum...

TunaFishKid

Actually, my 87 year old mother got the same advice from her doctor. She's lost some weight over the last year and we were concerned. When any underlying physical problems were ruled out, his weight-gain advice was to eat more often. It didn't occur to me at the time that that advice fits in with No...

TunaFishKid

Torchwood is my daughter's favorite show! (After Dr. Who, I guess.) I'm afraid to watch it, though, because she says if I don't like it she'll have to hate me forever.

TunaFishKid

Fruit Loops is a "smart choice" for breakfast?? Heaven help us all. Looking on the bright side, there can't really be too many people in the world who are dumb enough to believe that....right? I'm starting to believe that eating these packaged, industrially manufactured "foods" are what's causing th...

TunaFishKid

Another topic that really hits home with me! I've been struggling with low carb dieting for years because even though it repeatedly proved unsustainable for me, I kept going back to it because it made me feel freaking AMAZING! I had tons of energy, my mind felt clear, my thinking was organized, all ...

TunaFishKid

The worst was backing out of the parking space in front of Baskin-Robbins. After that, it was a cinch. That made me laugh! I hate backing out of parking spaces and almost always look for a spot where I can pull through to the other side so I don't have to. Glad you enjoyed your ice cream and beat a...

TunaFishKid

Spook wrote:I'm trying to work out how you were driving with an ice cream cone.

Me too! Maybe I'm not very coordinated, lol, but I probably either would have crashed or had ice cream all over my lap.

TunaFishKid

OMG, not till months later?! Eek! How did you feel? Vindicated? Really smart or lucky that you stopped before it permanently damaged your body :( :( :( I guess I was more shocked than anything. I'm a very trusting person by nature (a severe handicap in life, let me tell you) and was simply dumbfoun...

TunaFishKid

Did you know Kimkins turned out to be a fraud? The inventor never even followed her own diet. Lots of people got health problems from following it and now I think there's some kind of lawsuit. I read the full story at http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/02/kimkins.html Yep - all that came ou...

TunaFishKid

I love that! Thanks, Brightangel.

I spent most of my adult life in Chapter 2.

I moved into Chapter 3 about five years ago.

And, I'm almost afraid to say it, but I think I may finally be moving into Chapter 4.

TunaFishKid

More than two bowel movements a day for weight loss? Never heard of such a thing. I agree with what the posters above said - everybody's different. Some go twice a day, some twice a week. It all has to do with the amount of roughage in your diet, but it's debatable whether a lot of fiber is really h...

TunaFishKid

Kimkins. It's a very lowfat, lowcarb diet and after a couple of days your appetite is so suppressed that you can barely force yourself to eat. The diet is basically skinless chicken breast, eggwhites and plain green vegetables. I was tracking on Fitday and was eating between 450 and 600 calories a d...

TunaFishKid

A couple of years ago I got onboard with the water-drinking fad. I was drinking about 8 to 10 large glasses a day. The weird thing is, the more I drank, the more I seemed to need. I can remember sitting watching tv at night and drinking glass after glass of water because my mouth and throat were so ...

TunaFishKid

Thanks, guys. The only problem I've had is the temptation to go on a diet, which hits me every once in a while when I hear about someone who's lost fifty pounds in six months, or something like that. Then I have to remind myself that weight lost quickly almost always comes back...plus more, just lik...

TunaFishKid

Hi, Tuna here again. I weighed myself this morning because my jeans felt a little loose. Imagine my shock at seeing 184! When I started No S at the end of April I weighed 197lbs. I've lost 13 lbs. despite a few lapses, including an August vacation that resulted in a four pound gain! Three pounds a m...

TunaFishKid

There are several things that could be to blame here... First, the time between meals. There's another thread about eating breakfast later, making it easier to make it from meal to meal. It's here -http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=5494 Second, you might just be underestimating how much ...

TunaFishKid

I think the breakthrough I have had is accepting slow weight loss. Before when I tried to diet in the past if I did see not immediate and dramatic results I would assume it/I was a failure and just give up. Now I am willing to take it very slow but know that this is a way of eating that I can susta...

TunaFishKid

Hi, Janie. So sorry about your mom. You're lucky to have that foundation, even if you didn't "get" it at the time. I love my mother dearly, but she's the original cookie monster, lol, and was always dieting.

Glad you're here...No S is great!

TunaFishKid

I think "more than three days" would be a safe prediction. :) :D I like that. The main point of No S is forming new habits. If you focus on that, the weight will come off. If you're looking to lose weight fast, you may be disappointed. I've lost weight really fast several times in my life, but it a...

TunaFishKid

From the original article - Whatâ€™s striking is that our society â€” particularly mainstream media â€” promotes habits that reject these healthy principles. They're so right. It's striking because no one seems to notice it. Every time I turn on the morning news shows there's some "expert" telling m...

TunaFishKid

Sorry...double posted by accident.

TunaFishKid

It's funny sometimes when you try to be good, help others to achieve what you've done and show a good example, you get berated for 'pushing too hard' or being 'holier than thou', whatever, as Bush was sayin' if you don't want to put in the work, don't complain about a slow weight loss or .... a wei...

TunaFishKid

...And how big the drinks and food containers here are. Big gulps, he actually laughed at. Who could imagine drinking that much in one sitting... I'm mystified by the gigantic sodas myself. Not too long ago I asked for a small Diet Coke at the concession stand at the movies. The guy behind the coun...

TunaFishKid

Me, too! My first week I had a heck of a time getting through the day. Then one morning I got up, started making breakfast, and said to myself "Why am I eating breakfast at 6:30? " I stay home and can eat any time I want and I'm not even hungry that early. I now eat at about 7:30am, 1pm, and 6:30pm....

TunaFishKid

This is definitely going to confuse people.

TunaFishKid

Maybe he is and maybe he isn't but I like him the way he is and, Laura, respectfully, you don't sound so tolerant yourself just now. LOL. I was editing my post at the same time you were posting. Check out my edit. (And I am very tolerant, just a little cranky right now. And not very tolerant of int...

TunaFishKid

buttercreampillow wrote:I have to eat in the classroom, so can't take anything like tuna that has a strong odor. What's your favorite brown bag?

Who doesn't like the delicious scent of tuna?

TunaFishKid

...he was sometimes frustrated by some people's lack of motivation / excessive whining / attempts to find flimsy excuses for not exercising or not eating properly, etc. That's some of the things he mentioned before ridin' into the sunset. Every person here has a different body, a different metaboli...

TunaFishKid

I have two problems with this study. First, mice are not humans. I always wonder how valuable these studies really are in predicting similar consequences in humans. Second, and more important, the lowcarb diet in this study was also high protein. Low carbs diets, at least done the Atkins way, are no...

TunaFishKid

LOL...I've thought that many times!

TunaFishKid

bluebunny27 wrote:Why not eat carrot sticks and celery instead of chocolate ??

I can just see it now. My husband comes home from work next Valentine's Day with a big, heart-shaped box of.....CARROTS AND CELERY?????

Marc, you crack me up!

TunaFishKid

DaveMc wrote:...it makes me less likely to create spurious S-days. . .

Uh oh..."spurious" starts with S! I see bad things arising......

TunaFishKid

Try Corelle! They're unbreakable, very pretty, and you can often find them in open stock.

TunaFishKid

Thalia wrote:..."light" bread (which is full of pencil shavings or something, as far as I could tell from the texture)...

LOL

TunaFishKid

I wanted to mention a little story about the post regarding the food (and drink)of the Mediterranean. While I was in college I spent 2 summers in Italy digging at an Etruscan site. The fellow who cleared the brush for us (so we could get in with our picks and shovels) would fuss at us for drinking ...

TunaFishKid

flightisleavin wrote:...The chatter has gone away...

I haven't reached that point yet. I still get a twinge of guilt over certain foods, and occasionally worry if I'm killing myself by not eating enough of this or too much of that. I'm glad to hear it is possible, though. I have hope!

TunaFishKid

Having a differing opinion is only welcome on this forum so long as you still endorse the touchy feely pity party mentality when it comes to accepting personal responsibility for failings. Bushranger, it's not your opinions that have ruffled feathers, it's your manner of expressing them. You say yo...

TunaFishKid

Please accept my sincere condolences. I am so sorry for his family and for you, his friend. I will raise a brownie in memory of your friend, Peter, on Saturday.

TunaFishKid

Tuna shakes? Yikes - even the TunaFishKid wouldn't touch that! :lol: I guess the silliest thing I did was eat salads with only vinegar for dressing, when I did Deal-A-Meal about 20 years ago. I remember eating huge bowls of lettuce and vinegar (to try and fill myself up for no calories) and going on...

TunaFishKid

Love the pyramids, Marc! I've been to the extremes in dieting, not because I'm attracted to fad diets, but because I'm always trying to find optimal health. The vegan people have their experts who say any animal products and any fat (even olive oil!) are bad for you. The lowcarb people say grains ar...

TunaFishKid

BrightAngel wrote: Each No S forum member brings his or her own personal experiences, values, and opinions. So far, the forum tone has been one of Tolerance and Understanding of our differences Each one of us strives to voice our opinions with as much kindness and open-mindness as we possess. This ...

TunaFishKid

...the reason to lose weight and be trim, lean and healthy should be one in the same. That IS the reason to lose weight... Thin does not necessarily equal healthy and fat does not necessarily equal unhealthy . Just wanted to make that point. Everyone has their own reasons for what they do. Why judg...

TunaFishKid

Your statement is bunk, it's easy to get healthy foods if you choose to get them. Does anyone else think that this sort of response is, um, a little un-No-S-ish? You do realise No S is only a diet ideology right? If you are going to start challenging people's differing opinions and statements in th...

TunaFishKid

Hi, guys! I got back from vacation yesterday. Sorry to say I made every day an S day and gained four pounds. (I was on a cruise...what can I say? :oops:) I had to come post just now because I read an article online about a guy who ate nothing but pizza for a month and not only lost weight but lowere...

TunaFishKid

I think everyone uses some short cuts -- we're none of us milling our own flour! Of course, there's a point where you're smooshing together Cool Whip, Jell-O Instant Pudding, a Duncan Hines cake mix, and a can of Diet Coke and calling it "a homemade dessert," but there's a wide spectrum of what I w...

TunaFishKid

Oh, Berry, you made me cry! What a lovely story. I hope you both enjoyed your anniversary feast. And I hope he's doing well, health-wise. (Keep us posted, okay?) God bless.

TunaFishKid

Having a reasonable serve of rice or bread or whatever each day isn't bad at all. Eating starches for the main portion of every meal though is asking for trouble in my opinion. I agree with you on this. No carbs on the other hand is technically impossible unless you are willing to go deficient in a...

TunaFishKid

I just had to come back to the computer to add one more thing... I obsessed about food and denied myself at more parties and holidays than I care to remember, and I'm heavier now than I ever was. (Or at least I was three months ago when I started NoS, lol.) And my dieting intruded into more than jus...

TunaFishKid

Hi, Cassie. If you've only been lowcarbing for 2 weeks, any weight you've lost may just be water at this point, and a piece of cake could very well cause it to come back, so don't be surprised if you find you've put on a couple of pounds the next day. I have heard of something called "carb cycling",...

TunaFishKid

Hey, guys...it's great to hear from all of you again! Marc, you crack me up. :D As far as the carbs go, it's tough. I've been on and off low carb for years - mostly off, lol. What happens is, I feel great, drop a lot of weight quickly, and then slowly go back to feeling normal and start missing all ...

TunaFishKid

Hi, everybody. I'm still NoS-ing, even though I'm terrible about posting. I thought I should check in because I realized this morning that, since starting NoS three months ago, I'm down a total of 9 pounds. (At one point I was four pounds lighter than I am now, but that was when I went back to lowca...

TunaFishKid

mimi wrote:
Well, back to the old grind!
NO! Back to the sane way of eating - and all your friends here!

How nice...thank you!

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Re: starting again (Monday!) - meal duration question

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The All-Pizza Diet!

Losing slowly but steadily