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- Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:49 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New with question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22823
Well, I think we need to make a distinction between encouraging people to go crazy, and encouraging people not to add extra rules in an effort to *prevent* themselves from going crazy. Wow, that was a convoluted sentence. :) But the point is, the "going crazy" part often fixes itself over time, wher...
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:41 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New with question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22823
Re: New with question
But my first two weekends with S days ... Well, now, I'm gonna stop you right there. It's very difficult (and potentially problem-causing) to conclude *anything* after just a couple of weeks of NoS. I'd say give yourself time, and plenty of it (months!) before you start making any major adjustments...
- Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:12 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Orthdoxy -- when the rules stop making sense to me
- Replies: 32
- Views: 35267
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:45 pm
- Forum: No S Diet Testimonials (aka "yearly check in")
- Topic: 10% goal
- Replies: 10
- Views: 24817
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:43 pm
- Forum: No S Diet Testimonials (aka "yearly check in")
- Topic: Sophiasapientia's "During" Story
- Replies: 13
- Views: 30127
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:39 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Orthdoxy -- when the rules stop making sense to me
- Replies: 32
- Views: 35267
If you're very much in control of when you really need to eat and when you don't, perhaps you don't really need NoS ... though as you say, it does provide a very useful structure that a lot of people find helpful even if they aren't trying to lose weight (or not trying to lose very much). For me, th...
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:16 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: The Egyptian Mummy Paradox
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18247
Right, sorry, wosnes. Your point that not everything has to be about diet is well taken! I have to admit that I found the original article's point somewhat persuasive, though: as I understand it, the issue was that people were using the blocked arteries in ancient mummies as an anti-carb argument, a...
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:40 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: The Egyptian Mummy Paradox
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18247
Well, to be fair, a lot of diets require you to check your brains at the door. The Mummy Diet is just more explicit about it than most. NoS, fortunately, is fully compatible with intact brains. (Edit: Oof, this may come across as more harsh than I intended. No offence meant, all around, it's intende...
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:35 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: The Egyptian Mummy Paradox
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18247
Ha -- the slimming secrets of the dead: Never Eat Again, Lose Weight, Get That Skeletal Physique You've Always Wanted! Exactly! The Mummy Diet is going to happen, it's just a matter of time. Just follow these simple steps: 1) die; 2) have all your internal organs removed (losing dozens and dozens o...
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:03 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: The Egyptian Mummy Paradox
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18247
- Tue May 31, 2011 6:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: check in's
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17650
My two-year testimonial is coming up in July, and it's going to be *awesome*. :) (Short version: after losing 20 pounds the first year and getting to where I wanted to be, I weigh exactly the same now as I did last July. Assuming I don't suddenly put on weight in the next month, that will probably b...
- Sun May 29, 2011 1:41 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: One week in! An introduction.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9860
- Sun May 29, 2011 12:28 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Less Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on Pounds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8628
- Fri May 27, 2011 11:30 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Use Spam Product to Stay Healthy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19884
- Mon May 23, 2011 11:05 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: obesity map; may be a repeat?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16495
- Fri May 13, 2011 8:23 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Old Timers Success
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15645
My "testimonial" can be found here: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6595 Short version: I lost 20 pounds over my first year, and I've kept it off since then. (It'll be two years in July.) I've settled in such that I feel like I can keep up NoS forever, which is the real "success" for me.
- Wed May 11, 2011 7:42 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: new to no s and feeling guilty about eating carbs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 29510
Clearly, people can gain weight while eating anything. People can also lose weight while eating anything. Moderation in all things! (Including excess!) The "diet experts" of the world have much to answer for, but perhaps the single worst thing is this insistence on certain magic foods being "the key...
- Tue May 10, 2011 12:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I Feel Like a Cult Person
- Replies: 37
- Views: 39156
Re: I Feel Like a Cult Person
I want to leave tracts all over kingdom come. I want to annoy people at airports. :) I feel like an evangelist about NoS, myself, but I very rarely actually say anything about it. (In my mind, I'm accosting people in airports, though.) I did, however, recently make my first "convert": I told a good...
- Fri May 06, 2011 12:19 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food Revolution "postponed"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22988
I did some investigative reporting on the subject of milk, earlier today, in the form of picking up some milk cartons while I was waiting for my paad thai in the cafeteria. Results, for Sealtest 250 mL cartons (that's, um, 2.4 cubic chains, or something, in Imperial -- sorry, I just don't know): Whi...
- Wed May 04, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Finer-grained poll: Which of the S's was your weakness?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 35945
- Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:56 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Read while you eat
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22829
Well, y'know, most of the danger people are worried about with reading while you eat is that you're presumably going to eat too much without noticing. NoS helps with that, since (if you're following the one-plate guideline) you're deciding in advance how much you're going to eat. If you're strict ab...
- Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:34 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: The Lindsay Lohan of No S
- Replies: 25
- Views: 30039
Welcome back, everyone! I'm sure there's a catchy saying along the lines of "You're going to fail every time except the time when it works". *Lots* of people around here have taken multiple runs at this. It's a hard thing, changing the way you eat, and it's the *norm* to find it difficult! It's even...
- Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:24 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Just want a simple life
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18970
Yes, we're really quite something, aren't we? Friendly, helpful, supportive, and modest. :) (But seriously, folks, this really is a remarkable community, almost entirely free of the non-stop flame wars that are so often the prevailing background on the Net. I guess one can point that out without bei...
- Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:57 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Being overweight is healthy?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33533
I tend to think that moderate eating habits and moderate exercise levels should go hand in hand with moderate expectations about what size you're going to end up being. You're (probably) not going to be stick-thin or model-thin, but then again, why would everyone want to be? Models are skinny for a ...
- Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:30 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Being overweight is healthy?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33533
This came up a little while ago in a different thread: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=96941&highlight=#96941 Here's what I wrote at the time, and my opinions haven't changed in the past two weeks: Well, here's the thing: there can be a difference between "heavy" and "unhealthy". Not e...
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:47 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone not weigh themselves?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 37978
I think this is a question that has many different "right" answers- no one size fits all! I do weigh daily, first thing every morning. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so", as the artist formerly known as the Prince of Denmark noted. It definitely depends on your own reac...
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:05 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Hunger is the Best Sauce
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15107
Fruit is incredibly delicious. This is the one that I've been marvelling at, in recent months. Fruit tastes *amazing*! I doubt there have been huge improvements in apple technology since I started NoS, so it's probably me that's changed. I'm also learning that eating fruit comes with a considerable...
- Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:28 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Funny review of No S
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17613
I've been around NoS for too long, I guess: I often forget how novel it seems to people, when they first encounter it! Funny stuff, though perhaps a bit unpolished for my tastes. On the subject of truth-telling, I recall a new member here posting, long ago, something like the following: She likened ...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:33 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Saletan and food at movie theaters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14511
Yeah, that's pretty funny. Is he following the eat-every-two-hours school of diet advice? As a student, I remember being baffled by the huge costs people would cite when they wanted to show how expensive it was to go to the movies these days. It took me a while to realize how they were getting their...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:01 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: just not doing anything?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19941
While we're on (or somewhere near) the subject, let me recommend Noel's post on sustainable fitness, here: http://noelfigart.com/blog/2011/03/28/let-the-minimum-be-the-maximum/ Much like with weight loss, it seems to me that long-term sustainability gets too little attention when discussing exercise...
- Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:30 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Brought Me Cookies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21601
- Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:28 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Easter is coming!!!!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21162
Chocolates and Easter candy I leave to the kids. I really don't need jelly beans or chocolate bunnies. I'm 40, and while I really don't need jelly beans, I really *do* need a chocolate bunny around Easter! :) The size of the bunny has declined over the years: when I was a teenager, I would routinel...
- Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:50 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Maybe we aren't as heavy as we think?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22998
- Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:14 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Maybe we aren't as heavy as we think?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22998
Well, here's the thing: there can be a difference between "heavy" and "unhealthy". Not everyone who is over the BMI range labelled "normal" is necessarily an unhealthy, unfit specimen. This is just a natural result of using population-level averages to define arbitrary cutoff values: of course any g...
- Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:21 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Brought Me Cookies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21601
Goodness me, I really must learn to be more precise in my writing. Wouldn't want my veracity doubted. No worries, it's just that my daughter's been reading Encyclopedia Brown, so I'm being exposed (again) to the worldview in which any (apparent) internal contradiction in any statement, however tiny...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:26 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Brought Me Cookies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21601
Re: Brought Me Cookies
(And the cookies are really GOOD). I was about to start cross-examining you: "Oh, really, Ms. Figart, the cookies are good? And how do you know that [dramatic pause] IF YOU DIDN'T EAT ANY?" [Dum-dum-duhhmm.] But then I realized you'd probably just had them some other time. So never mind, and congra...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:37 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: the hunger pang thang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26449
Someone here once said "instead of thinking of it as hunger pangs, think of it as 'having an appetite' - which you are supposed to have at mealtime!" I think reframing it that way helps. Ooh, ooh! That was me! :) Though I doubt I'm the first, and of course Reinhard refers in the book (I think) to t...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Normal!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17391
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:58 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: the hunger pang thang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26449
Re: the hunger pang thang
How do you guys deal with the hunger pangs?!?! ... sometimes it's just hard. Yep, sometimes it's hard -- and you can change that to something pretty close to "always", right at the start. That first few weeks or so can be quite tough, but it really does get better. If you can tide yourself over wit...
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:38 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: PLEASE - Don't let me give up this time!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16905
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:35 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No S breakfast
- Replies: 39
- Views: 38699
"If you snack just as much as before, and add a big breakfast on top of that, you're not going to gain anything!" I think you meant you're not going to lose anything. And I agree with you. Well, not gain anything in terms of health benefits, which would include not losing anything in terms of weigh...
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:25 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No S breakfast
- Replies: 39
- Views: 38699
I don't get too worked up about breakfast. I know a lot of people feel it's necessary to eat a good sized well rounded breakfast or else you're doomed to be fat and unhealthy and that might be true for some people. My theory is that the "eat breakfast or you'll be fat" line is a classic example of ...
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Question about home fried potatos
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19043
Re: quick technical question
I don't think so, but fear not, this doesn't count as seconds.Mrandy1 wrote:i advertaintly posted the same reply twice---is there anyway to delete a post?
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:08 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Question about home fried potatos
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19043
Re: Question about home fried potatos
I find myself agreeing with Noel always. I'd have expected, given your signature, that's you'd agree with her *sometimes*. :) But yes, heed the words of Noel! EDIT: To add a few more words: the standard advice (and it's standard for a reason, since it's pretty good) is to focus on getting the three...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:52 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Bless me, fellow No-S'ers, for I have transgressed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19894
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:18 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Reinhard's 2010 "during"
- Replies: 31
- Views: 39182
- Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:20 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New girl, happy to be here!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16605
nutritarian.com certainly has me on their side with this comment: Six-A-Day...Not The Way! You have probably heard it’s better to eat six small meals a day. That is absolutely incorrect. The digestive track needs rest in order to properly digest food and to burn it off. Also, the body cannot rid i...
- Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:29 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Introduction and Hello!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19733
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:55 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Cheating?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20824
I remember saying, "Tough crowd!" And, sheesh, now I'm one of 'em. :) LOL! I remember that! One point that this brings to mind: I'm guessing that you're relatively new to NoS, imprisoned? If so, you'll probably find it easier to be part of the "tough crowd", after a while. When you've been doing No...
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:18 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Cheating?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20824
I had a similar question about birthday S days, when I first started NoS (a year and a half ago) -- I wanted to know if I could shift my birthday S day, since it was on a Saturday, which I felt was unfair. The answer was along the lines of, "You're free to do whatever you want. But no." I remember s...
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:27 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Cheating?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20824
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:45 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No-S during Pregnancy? Long, sorry.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 44071
Thats about the 5 a day rule. Basically yes, it means making sure you get a lot of fruit and veg, but although it sounds easy it's actually not when you try it. You may think you eat enough of them now but actually you can only manage 5 a day if the major proportion of your diet is fruit&veg. Three...
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:03 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Still Tracking
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14641
I've read that the cold water thing is diet myth. By the time it gets to your stomach, it's body temperature. I think you made the point...that transfer of energy (heat) to warm the water has to come from some place. :wink: It's not hard to calculate how much it is -- and while it's not huge, I sup...
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:17 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Oatmeal, revisited
- Replies: 52
- Views: 58274
OK, so every time the word oatmeal appears online lately, the words "steel cut" cannot be far behind. Can someone tell me what the deal is with oats being "steel cut"? Everyone seems to think very highly of them, but I can't figure out why the metal used to cut them should matter -- would "aluminum ...
- Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:48 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Finally Did It
- Replies: 21
- Views: 26617
I think I'm going to start selling "No-bars" so people start taking this diet seriously. It'll look just like a dietcandy bar except when you unwrap it there's nothing inside. I love it! :) Though on further reflection, maybe what you really need is a little locked box inside, that unlocks itself w...
- Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:31 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: A Paradigm Shift with Atkins?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18189
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:37 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Why the French aren't fat: they don't snack!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 28828
Half an egg? :shock: It takes either an enormous amount of discipline or some seriously ingrained traditions and habits to stick to half an egg for a snack. Makes Americans and their 100 calorie packs look like wimps, lol. To be fair, I may have made that one up while trying to think of an example ...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:17 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Why the French aren't fat: they don't snack!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 28828
The missus is from the Philippines, and she tells me (and I've seen, on visits) that snacking is built in to Filipino culture: they have snacks several times a day, between meals, but in general people are (or have been, until recently) fairly slim. I think the key is that the snacks have traditiona...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:05 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Fat Head
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10078
I haven't seen the movie, but from Naughton's web site, he seems like a pretty strong low-carb advocate -- like, Atkins-level low-carb. (In one comment he mentions that he "avoids grains entirely these days".) Is that the stance in the movie? I have to admit, I default to skepticism about any such s...
- Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:05 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: can you/should you/do you really eat anything on an S day?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 26629
Re: can you/should you/do you really eat anything on an S da
My question is this - do you throw all caution to the wind on S days? I've never made any specific rules for my S days, and I've been fortunate enough to have pretty much the ideal outcome: at every stage, I've eaten "whatever I want" on S days, but the amount I've wanted has become more reasonable...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:21 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Grumpy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19112
I'm 3 weeks in and the other day I realised that I like feeling hungry. Me, too! In fact, that sentiment has been expressed around here many times. As I've said before, you can think of it "being hungry", or you can think of it as "having an appetite" -- either way, it's a sensation of pleasantly l...
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:42 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: UK anyone?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17200
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:26 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: UK anyone?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17200
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:24 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I'm new here and want to start....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19608
Re: I'm new here and want to start....
'just DO it!!' I hear you cry... Aw, you stole my advice! :) But seriously, you just have to pick a day and get started. NoS is gentle enough that it's not too hard to make it through a day following its rules, and then, lo and behold, you'll have started! The next day you'll be continuing, not sta...
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:45 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Eating Habits Recommended in the Book Corps Strength
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10443
I love the image of a NoS drill instructor: "All right, you apes! Are you BABIES? Do you need to EAT every TWO HOURS? NO YOU DO NOT! Drop and give me five (hours until dinner)! Hut! Hut!" (Of course, we incline towards gentler forms of encouragement, around here. But whatever works for you ... some ...
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:43 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Can't make it 5 hours!!!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23133
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:43 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Article about actresses and what they eat
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22394
It's not my job to be a size 2. Off topic, but I've been wondering this for a long time: What is the deal with female clothes sizes being compressed into a single number? Even us doltish men normally get at least two numbers to describe any given piece of clothing (waist and inseam for pants; neck,...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:14 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Can't make it 5 hours!!!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23133
Re: Can't make it 5 hours!!!!
First of all: yes, you *can*. :) Does my body get used to 3 meals a day. Did your bodies adjust. Most people do find that they get used to it, yes: I now have no problem with seven hours between lunch and dinner, or even longer, though I try to arrange for it to be more like six hours (breakfast aro...
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:54 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: On "Diet Camps"
- Replies: 22
- Views: 23615
Let me appeal to everyone to take a deep breath before we wade too deeply into an organic produce flame war, shall we? I know there are probably a lot of interesting and highly controversial issues to be discussed, there, but I'm pretty sure here isn't the place to discuss them, and it has the poten...
- Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:07 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Finer-grained poll: Which of the S's was your weakness?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 35945
Well, I don't see "sometimes" as something you could have a problem with *before* NoS, and that's what I was asking about, here: "except (sometimes) on days that start with S" in inherently a NoS position. People not on NoS don't have S days and N days, so sometimes-ness (or the wildness of their S ...
- Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:38 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Finer-grained poll: Which of the S's was your weakness?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 35945
- Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:39 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: * * * February challenge * * *
- Replies: 36
- Views: 31849
- Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:16 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Less is less
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3981
Less is less
So, the other day I followed a link, and found myself staring into the yawning abyss of Nutritional Debates on the Internet. Endless back and forth about whether the Low-Carb People or the Low-Fat People are lying to you and trying to trick you into unhealthy eating ... Endless throwing around of di...
- Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:34 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Day 3 and Sugar Cravings
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26642
Re: Day 3 and Sugar Cravings
Will I ever get hooked on cucumber? :roll: I find little to love about cucumber, though I don't *mind* it. :) On the other hand, I've been amazed at how much I'm into fruit, these days. Apples, oranges, grapes, pears -- it's incredible how *sweet* these things are! (Baby carrots, too.) I eat one or...
- Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:16 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Not to low baby, I might pass out...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 25675
Although there are sensible ranges, and you can probably tell without a chart whether you're *way* outside those ranges, I often think that the question "How much should a human weigh?" is sort of along the lines of "How much should a vehicle weigh?" Depends on the vehicle. [EDIT: Oh, and for 6-foot...
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:34 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I GAINED 10lbs in 8 weeks on NO-S. VERY upset
- Replies: 33
- Views: 37913
Re: I GAINED 10lbs in 8 weeks on NO-S. VERY upset
... BUT it just shows me that I have to count calories because the only way I can possibly lose weight is to eat 1200 calories a day and about 1400-1500 calories to maintain ... Well, everyone has to do what they feel is best for them. You'll find stories on this board from people who have been suc...
- Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:08 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Playing with Portions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11469
This is exactly what I did, during that first year when I lost 20 pounds on NoS: when I wanted to speed things up in terms of weight loss, I played with eating just a touch less per meal. (I always say that I lost 20 pounds in a year, but a suspect that I really lost most of them in the second six-m...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:15 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Oatmeal, revisited
- Replies: 52
- Views: 58274
Off-topic, but I'd just like to thank you for not following the recent trend and making the subject into two sentence fragments. If this were an ad on a billboard or in a magazine, it would almost certainly have been "Oatmeal. Revisited." Drives me nuts! (Every time I see one of those, I think, "Sen...
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Food Culture
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25709
The lack of good bread used to drive me crazy when I lived in Boston for a couple of years during my postdoc. I thought it was just a Boston thing (it's the only U.S. city I've lived in for any extended period). I mean, Toronto's no Europe, but it's quite easy to find extremely good bread, at reason...
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Frustrated that I seem to be gaining on No-S
- Replies: 38
- Views: 39633
Has any medical professional advised you to lose weight? I'd be fairly surprised if they had, at least for health reasons: according to the medical profession's favourite not-to-be-fully-trusted number, the BMI, you're right in the range of "normal", healthy weight. You used to be at the low end of ...
- Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:36 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Small Batch Baking
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9782
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:55 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone not weigh themselves?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 37978
To be fair-minded, it's definitely one of those "do what's best for you" issues (as so many things related to diet and health are!) Some people find that regular weighing is extremely helpful for them. But if the number on the scale freaks you out and leads to negative reactions and even more negati...
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:17 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone not weigh themselves?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 37978
I don't weigh regularly. I figure that I'm trying to improve how I feel and how I look, not to cause a specific number to appear on a scale. I step on a scale at irregular intervals just out of curiosity, but it's not my main criterion for how I'm doing. (As I've often remarked, I find it somewhere ...
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Surrendering
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15267
I've read many posts like yours, by people whose relationship to food has been completely messed up by years of unsustainable diets. The good news is, I've *also* read many posts by those same people reporting, after a year or two of NoS (sometimes less), that they've made peace with food and can no...
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Surrendering
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15267
I've read many posts like yours, by people whose relationship to food has been completely messed up by years of unsustainable diets. The good news is, I've *also* read many posts by those same people reporting, after a year or two of NoS (sometimes less), that they've made peace with food and can no...
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:25 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Recipes/Meal Ideas for Quick and Easy "Defaults"
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19969
- Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:53 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Two weeks on nos and a bit worried
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9715
"Two weeks in to NoS and a bit worried" could serve as a summary of almost *everyone's* experience, so you're definitely not alone! It does take time, but it's worth it. Once you get the habit of regular, moderate meals and limited sweets well established (and that's really what we're talking about,...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:22 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: So confused about food now after reading posts
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15436
Re: So confused about food now after reading posts
I'm reading all this conflicting information on these boards now and I'm getting confused as to what to eat. From what I understand, as long as it's not sweet, it's not a second and it's not a snack and it fits on my plate I can eat it. This second part is absolutely what you should be focused on, ...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:27 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What to do when you don't put enough on your plate...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15362
It's amazing how much better this gets (for many people), over the first few months (often). (Caveats because everyone is different!) I've found, and I've heard the same from many others, that I'm now perfectly comfortable being somewhat hungry, and I can ride that state of pleasantly anticipating e...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What are your treats on S-Days?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 23507
I tend to have a few miscellaneous sweets scattered throughout each S day (M&Ms, chocolate almonds, that sort of thing), but my favourite "big ticket" items are: a Blizzard from Dairy Queen, or a home-baked treat (a cobbler, or chocolate chip cookies). Because these things involve either going somew...
- Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:50 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: First-Time Poster Checking In
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11939
Re: First-Time Poster Checking In
Welcome aboard, Stack. A particular food is neither inherently good nor bad, but is appropriate or inappropriate based on context. Yep, I think that's a very important point! It also serves as the answer to a question I've often asked myself over the years, when I've seen skinny people at McDonald's...
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:19 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: General welcome to new folks and FAQs :)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 60688
One other question that's frequently asked: 5) My S days are too wild! Should I modify or eliminate them, or add restrictions? Am I going to sabotage myself on S days? The first response, here, is usually to find out how long the questioner has been doing NoS. If it's less than several months, the s...
- Wed Dec 22, 2010 4:09 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: "Cheat days"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3874
"Cheat days"
I've heard a number of people mention other diets, here, that have things called "cheat days" or similar. And it's got me to thinking: I would like NoS a whole lot less if the name "special days" ("S days") were replaced by "cheat days", even if everything else remained the same. I think calling the...
- Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:01 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: ICE CREAM CAKE-WHAT TO DO???????????????????????????????????
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13730
I'd like to think that the following is a sign of the sanity of NoS as an approach: when reading your subject heading, my first thought was, "How is this a problem? Have some ice cream cake (if it's an S day), or don't. No problem." So, yeah, have your cake, and eat it, too. :) (Never understood why...
- Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:58 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: "The food was so bad... and the portions so small!"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14717
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:59 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Culturome Browser: snacks (etc)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6329
- Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:42 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: TODAY IS MY 40th BIRTHDAY
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12064
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:00 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Weight Watchers changes its points system
- Replies: 43
- Views: 39567
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:07 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 1st S Day Apprehension
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18356
The slope may be slippery, but maybe you should try it out a bit before you put on your cleats ... maybe you won't need them after all, or maybe you won't need them after a while. Before your first S day is arguably too soon to panic. :) But I understand where you're coming from, in terms of not wan...
- Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:30 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What about "Starters"?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9698
I often interpret the "one plate" rule to mean "decide in advance how much you're going to eat". So if the food comes on a plate and a bowl (because I'm having soup or salad plus something else), I don't worry about it. I think the key point is to not just keep eating absent-mindedly. But everyone s...