Everyday Systems

Just realized the thread title was rather gay..

Francois Tremblay wrote:People just have a knee-jerk reactions against the word "diet". I can't blame them.

Since when do you care what 'people' say.

That's a pretty sweet application!

Francois Tremblay wrote:Today I had to bear more criticism of my No S Habit.

Elaborate?

sledge wrote:What's the weight?

Thanks!

Around 7 kilo; which is 15 lbs?

Francois Tremblay wrote:So it's about not eating beyond certain times. I understand that, although I'm not sure I would integrate that specifically in my eating habits.

It's a good way of having insight and control over your habits. If you eat whenever you're hungry, you'll never eat less.

A fact of the human body and mind is that it adapts to our eating habits. So if we eat a lot, then the body will expect a lot. Now we can use this trait to eat less as well, but it's not easy changing habits. What you can do is first getting into the habit of only eating three times a day (in suffic...

Underneath the tape is solid tied rope, except in the middle part with the block, which only purpose is to stop the two bars from bending towards each other.

Works fine.

cool

Not sure if these are new but: Water pump: Hold the SG horizontally across your upperbody, along your sholders. The side that has the weight goes up and down and the other side moves along but with much less extension. Wheat sack: Pretend you are throwing a sack of wheat along side your body onto a ...

It's very solid, don't worry. With oversized tie-raps, a good length of rope, a small block of wood inbetween them in the middle and some finishing with duck-tape, it's very sturdy and actually a pretty good grip to hold onto. I tore my pants last week so I'm using that in stead of an old sweater; s...

Hey guys, I'm just in. I've read a bunch of the stuff and started with No S last week and bought/made shovel today. It's all very rational and exciting, and I think you've done a great job at it all. The hammer they had here was only 3 KG (6.7 lbs), so I made 1 out of 2 of them. I'm 25 and haven't b...