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- Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:56 pm
- Forum: Urban Ranger General Discussion
- Topic: "Active Couch Potatoes" vs. French Exercise
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19755
That NYT article took me back to this one by Olivia Judson, on the evils of sitting http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/stand-up-while-you-read-this/ apparently it is not just the caloric difference between sitting and standing that matters - prolonged sitting actually alters the physiol...
- Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:53 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Great site for pedometer users
- Replies: 19
- Views: 26747
Thanks! I got myself a pedometer last month and was mortified to find out how little I walk. Attempts to ramp it up rapidly failed, rapidly. Sigh. I was just reading a review of Pedometer walking by Mark Fenton - mentioned in another post - and I think I will begin again and try this week by week ap...
- Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:50 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: This Drives Me Crazy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 28887
- Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:17 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NoS and the family
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22155
- Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:14 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NoS and the family
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22155
Thanks, all, for the mother-advice! I live in another city from my mum - once a year she comes and lives with us for 2 months and while I used to battle her "food is love" when it became oppressive, I fear I have sort of indulged her in the last couple of years since my dad died - she is lonely and ...
- Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:03 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NoS and the family
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22155
Prapad, what exactly is your mother's criticism of No S? Are family occasions all day eating affairs? Are sweets mandatory? You can eat anything except sweets on N days, just as long as they're eaten at meals, unless you are adding rules. But those are yours, not No S's. I think this is one of the ...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:59 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: NoS and the family
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22155
NoS and the family
I thought I would face some resistance from my family (which doesn't have the obesity problem that I do) but it so happened that my husband was advised to let go of a 3-4 kg of extra weight (yes, that's all. I hate him. :) ) and my son's last pediatric check up (he's 12) suggested he was putting wei...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:45 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
OT - from what I read, intermittent fasting could either be the 24 hour (or 36 hour) fasts that you do - or alternately, there could be a compressed eating window in which one fasts for say 18 hours and eats meals within 6 hours - I figure there are pros and cons for both types - what drew you to th...
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:05 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
OT, once again, much thanks. I really appreciate your taking the trouble to share your experiences and your understanding of the fasting system. So far I have done only one fast a week, so, yes, I do plan to ease into it. I didn't find the 24 hour fast awful, but neither was it a breeze, so that's w...
- Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:43 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
Don't give up.. As an experiment, try doing 5 mins of moderate intensity bodyweight exercises like push ups and squat thrusts on a fasting day when you feel the MOST tired. If you do start to feel dizzy or whatever you can always stop! OT - thanks so much for your words of encouragement. I am mildl...
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:23 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: I don't believe that No S works well with strength training
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25522
Pepper, in the thread on fasting I had posted some links to intermittent fasting - you might like to check them out. Also look at www.leangains.com where he shows how eating fewer meals is used in conjunction with strength training.
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 7:25 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
Paprad, this sounds very unfortunate: I'm very intrigued by what you say. Did you lose weight following the fast but then put it back on, or are you saying you didn't lose any weight during the fast? Did your level of physical activity remain the same? I find it hard to understand how no weight was...
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:00 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
I must add that my 2 rounds of 24 hour fasting and nearly a month of NoS (admittedly, with many reds, but also many greens) has done nothign to shake my weight - sigh. I read that fasting would help bring down at least 1/2 pound of fat loss per week - and I was careful not to binge in my post-fast p...
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:56 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: What have you given up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 27729
Nuts -- I used to have a handfull with my evening coffee. And for the first week I quite missed them - but now I've gotten used to not having this. To some degree, fruit - well, I try to eat as part of the plate - but earlier I had fruit as snacks all the time - and so, the sheer quantity and variet...
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:32 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
I think that the result of intermittent fasting may well be that you don't worry so much about a delayed meal. Yes, i also felt that way. I had a longish break today between brekker and lunch and usually I would've had massive pangs - I did feel hungry but having done without food for 24 hours earl...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:14 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
Isn't it also true that, if you eat a substantial evening meal, you won't have had enough time to work up a decent appetite by breakfast time? I've certainly read the recommendation to reduce the evening meal if you want to enjoy breakfast. Yes, the "eat like a pauper" thing. also the advice to eat...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:50 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
.. found that the more substantial my breakfast is, the more likely I am to want to overeat and/or snack the rest of the day. I'm much better off not eating breakfast or eating something very light. That's true for me as well. Also when I peer into the dim and distant past when I was very slim and ...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:46 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
Paprad, It wasn't until recently,when I started experimenting with 30-36hr fasts that I began to psychologically detach myself from food. OT, thanks - your experiences are inspiring. I am definitely far from detachment - but interestingly, I found that my brief fasting experience has helped me at l...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:48 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
I did my second 24 hour fast - and OT is right, the last 2 hours were the worst, I was practically drooling just visualizing my dinner. I read this interview : http://avidityfitness.net/2008/01/12/interview-martin-berkhan/ This is a routine which recommends a daily fast and a smaller eating window -...
- Fri May 28, 2010 10:42 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
- Fri May 28, 2010 7:07 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
OT - one doubt I had re Eat Stop Eat. It's basically a 24 hour fast, as I figure it - you can determine the start and stop time based on convenience. Does it also mean that on the "eat" days, you eat less meals? One one blog, I think that of Eades', it says you can eat dinner on one day and Breakfas...
- Fri May 28, 2010 7:01 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
- Thu May 27, 2010 9:39 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
For those interested, here are a couple more links http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/03/02/postponing-death-caloric-restriction-vs-intermittent-fasting-part-1/ and http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/03/03/real-life-extension-caloric-restriction-or-intermittent-fasting-part-2/ This 2 p...
- Thu May 27, 2010 9:24 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: on my 2nd week and have a question about milk...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10136
- Thu May 27, 2010 9:19 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
That is my guess at what makes ESE different - zero calories with no exceptions while you are fasting. Yes, I think so too. Which is why I was reluctant to give into my fantasy of low-carb cucumber meal when I was fasting. The theory says somewhere that the fat burning kicks into action only ater 1...
- Wed May 26, 2010 12:32 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
I've always interpreted religious use of it as a way to purposely make people suffer in sympathy with trials of a revered one, to downplay the importance of the body rather than the spirit, and to engender greater gratitude for the gift of food. I'm very willing for it to have other advantages as w...
- Wed May 26, 2010 12:27 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
Kathleen, All the very best - I am sure you will find the experience a rewarding one. I told myself that even if I didn't last out, the sensations I would feel and my response to these would both yield learning about my body and they did. I plan to give it another go on Friday. OT, thanks for sharin...
- Wed May 26, 2010 9:00 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
I feel no more hunger on a fasting day than I do when I'm eating 3 meals, if each contains noticeably less than I want to eat. That's true - I feel hungry today, am on vanilla NoS and I find myself needing to exert more control on myself than I did yesterday while fasting. I felt empty yesterday an...
- Wed May 26, 2010 5:32 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
Kathleen, your thread prompted me to do an orgy of googling on Eat Stop Eat, and I decided to give 24 hour fasting a try. My family was quite disapproving - the theories against fasting are so widely spread - but I assured my husband that I was at home all day and if I felt dizzy or something, I wou...
- Tue May 25, 2010 4:07 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Doubt re fruit
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16436
- Mon May 24, 2010 3:27 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Doubt re fruit
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16436
- Sun May 23, 2010 6:15 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Are you fasting in conjunction with The No S Diet?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 84746
Many cultures here in India have periodic fasting as part of the routine. These are typically for religious purposes - almost like a penance, or as a kind of offering for marital bliss. So they are not so popular among the modern and the young, but a large number still do these. I have known those w...
- Thu May 20, 2010 1:05 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Doubt re fruit
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16436
Thanks wosnes and idon'tknow - I tried that today for lunch. It's mango season here in India and they are simply too delish to avoid, so I firmly had a smaller lunch so I could have some chunks of mango as part of the meal. I also realized that it was after aeons that I ate mango without guilt - usu...
- Thu May 20, 2010 12:59 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: put the blinders on
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12675
Thanks, Too solid flesh - we saw lots of elephants and deer and wild boar and I tried not to notice that they seemed to spend all their time eating. :D The buffet tip is a good one - on day 1 I found I was loading up and feeling overwhelmed - after a couple of days I tried to be more picky with what...
- Thu May 20, 2010 7:13 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Phases of No-S (as I see them)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 109682
- Thu May 20, 2010 7:08 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Doubt re fruit
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16436
Doubt re fruit
During my snacking days I ate a lot of fruit as snacks - under the misguided belief that it was okay to eat healthy stuff. I'd vacuum up a large mango or a huge bowl of grapes or a couple of bananas and feel virtuous. Now that snacking isn't an option, I am in a bit of a quandary re fruit. On one ha...
- Thu May 20, 2010 7:02 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: put the blinders on
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12675
After a fairly encouraging first week (many reds, but a lot of learning), I left with my family for a long awaited holiday - which had many days of long driving and days with strange timings (we went on a wild-life safari, which meant meal times went awry). I thought I'd be able to stick to NoS, but...
- Tue May 11, 2010 5:12 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: New to S Diet- Some Questions I need help with
- Replies: 25
- Views: 29172
Re: Relax and keep it simple
Get the habit down first and then consider things like nutrition and portions -- if they turn out to be a problem. One of the things that no s does for you--one of the most important things is to get you out of the diet mentality. This was the same advice given to me on another thread, and I found ...
- Tue May 11, 2010 4:47 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: 4:30 p.m. -- The most difficult time is NOW!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18030
I went pretty crazy last week exactly at that time. For the last so many years, I have had a "healthy" snack with my coffee - maybe nuts, or a fruit. I think it's mostly psychological, but the yawning gap between lunch and dinner started obsessing me. Last eve I had a glass of milk - and that helped...
- Mon May 10, 2010 4:39 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: My Floating S-Day Experiment
- Replies: 48
- Views: 41110
- Mon May 10, 2010 12:21 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: My Floating S-Day Experiment
- Replies: 48
- Views: 41110
- Mon May 10, 2010 7:29 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: No S Catch Phrase Glossary (add yours!)
- Replies: 157
- Views: 267873
- Mon May 10, 2010 7:13 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: My Floating S-Day Experiment
- Replies: 48
- Views: 41110
uhoh, I just read this in Reinhard's podcast on S Days For the rest of you, before I discuss S-days in themselves, I'd just like to emphasize that you should not worry about S-days AT ALL until you've got your N-days down. If you can't go a month without having more than 1 or two botched N-days, tha...
- Mon May 10, 2010 4:01 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: My Floating S-Day Experiment
- Replies: 48
- Views: 41110
I interpreted the (sometimes) that followed the exception for S days as being a number of S events. I'd guess the actual number of S events that would work for each individual would depend on that person's specific circumstance. For myself, given that I have a huge amount of weight to lose - and tha...
- Sun May 09, 2010 11:30 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: My Floating S-Day Experiment
- Replies: 48
- Views: 41110
Wosnes...Do you mean to say that you take up to only 2 events a week? As I understand this, it is only having, let's say for instance, a dessert on Monday and perhaps seconds on Thurs. and the rest of the week is much like Vanilla No S with a light breakfast and lunch? Yes, that's pretty much what ...
- Fri May 07, 2010 4:32 pm
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Less than one week in
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10822
Sorry, everyone, I realized a tad belatedly that I have goofed and replied to a topic rather than started a topic of my own. I have been lurking for a few days and I found this such a hugely supportive forum, I thought I'd pipe in. I guess it will take me a little while to read all the threads and u...
- Fri May 07, 2010 9:51 am
- Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
- Topic: Less than one week in
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10822
newbie from india
Hi, I stumbled onto Everyday Systems when I was intrigued by Shovelglove - and it inspired me to go and get one made immediately (where I live in India, sledgehammers aren't easy to buy) - and then found the NoS diet. It went so against all the wisdom I had learnt about snacking - it really made me ...