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by yoozer
Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:36 pm
Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
Topic: Habitcal tweak: swipe to set multiple dates (broken in IE)
Replies: 2
Views: 10495

Thanks, that's very handy.
by yoozer
Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:44 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Think they can tell? It was going to be a secret.
Replies: 30
Views: 32529

The first rule of No-S Diet Club is: you do not talk about No-S Diet Club. :)
by yoozer
Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:52 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Reinhard tried to warn you re: diet soda!
Replies: 12
Views: 21620

Alternatively, this news report could be doing the classic thing of confusing correlation with cause. Because, who drinks diet soda in the first place? Overweight people, mostly.
It's like saying WeightWatchers makes you fat (although, come to think of it...)
by yoozer
Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:28 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Weight Fluctuations
Replies: 9
Views: 17706

I also stopped weighing myself every day, because in my case the reading seems to fluctuate in a +/- 3lb range. Even though I know in my head to look at the trend rather than the daily reading, it can be dispiriting to see that you've "gained" 4lb in a day or two. Somehow this is worse than the equa...
by yoozer
Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:45 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: A Polish fan of the No S diet
Replies: 11
Views: 19798

Re: A Polish fan of the No S diet

yuka wrote:Please forgive me my mistakes here and there, I’m sure there are some, as Im not a native English speaker.
Welcome! I just wanted to say that your English is excellent. Better than many native speakers. I wish I had that command of a second language.
by yoozer
Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:17 am
Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
Topic: Let the Minimum be the Maximum
Replies: 4
Views: 16005

One thing that Reinhard's "Fourteen minutes of anything " approach has taught me is to not worry about progress, about getting better or faster at whatever the exercise is. A while back I tried the popular Couch-to-5K running programme, which was great, but it did suck me into the mindset of "must c...
by yoozer
Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:32 pm
Forum: Everyday Systems General Discussion
Topic: How do I look at someone else's HabitCal?
Replies: 2
Views: 10535

There may be an easier way of doing it, but you can find someone's user ID by hovering over their Profile button, and then plug it into the URL of the public view of your own Habitcal. I don't think there's anything naughty about this, because Reinhard makes it perfectly clear that Habitcal informat...
by yoozer
Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:56 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: A Paradigm Shift with Atkins?
Replies: 14
Views: 18044

You could write a book just on diet mythology. Starvation mode is one of those myths. There is a grain of truth in it - on *severely* restricted calorie intake (like, 800 calories a day), sustained over a period of some days, people do tend to become lethargic, which in itself means that their metab...
by yoozer
Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:25 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: When to go up a size?
Replies: 12
Views: 33722

FWIW, I finally got round to adding some weight to my trusty 10-pound shovelglove. I got a 1kg (2lb) diving weight and lashed it to the side before rewrapping. I didn't think it it would make that much difference, but boy was I wrong. The thing feels *much* heavier. I've just finished my routine and...
by yoozer
Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:58 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Condiments and Sauce on No S?
Replies: 10
Views: 16839

It never crossed my mind to consider sauces as seconds, but then I am so uncouth that I actually put any salt, pepper and condiments on the plate before eating. I suppose if you go absolutely crazy and put half a pint of ketchup or mayo or whatever on the plate that would be an issue. Yes, some sauc...
by yoozer
Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:05 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Just how big is three plates? With Diagrams!
Replies: 24
Views: 39147

Interesting calculations, Steve. It is quite surprising how much difference a few inches of diameter make. It's that square in it. -- pi.r^2. It gets big, fast. Indeed. In fact, you don't really have to worry about pi -- just observe that 7 squared is 49 while 10 squared is 100, so a 10-inch plate i...
by yoozer
Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:08 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: 3 meals a day catching on in diet world?
Replies: 11
Views: 17889

If this is one of the diets we're talking about, it does sound an awful lot like No-S: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/dietandfitness/3352812/Team-Telegraph-No-Crave-Diet-Day-1.html It does take a lot more words to say it than "no snacks, no sweets, no seconds, except on S-days", but to be fair it...
by yoozer
Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:17 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: 3 meals a day catching on in diet world?
Replies: 11
Views: 17889

The "frequent small meals" approach has never appealed to me. I find that it keeps my appetite too stimulated, and I'm always thinking about the next snack or mini-meal. And that's the other thing - the meals are inevitably frustratingly small. With just three meals a day, or even two, they can be n...
by yoozer
Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:56 am
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: Question about tweaking the 3 meals a day component
Replies: 7
Views: 12182

I think the "don't skip breakfast " thing is supposed to be interpreted as "don't make yourself excessively hungry" (and possibly also tied into the completely bogus "kickstart your metabolism" idea). But if you're not hungry until, say, five hours after you get up, I see absolutely no point in maki...
by yoozer
Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:47 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: last bite panic
Replies: 5
Views: 11777

When I first started experimenting with a No-S-like approach a couple of months back, I thought there was no way I could do just three meals a day and go without a late-evening snack, because that would mean maybe fourteen hours between dinner and breakfast! So for a while I went with three-meals-an...
by yoozer
Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:40 pm
Forum: No S Diet General Discussion
Topic: What Does Food Have to do with being fat?
Replies: 33
Views: 35947

[I'm a newbie/lurker here, so forgive me for butting in to this argument. But I am very interested in the arguments put forward by people such as Gary Taubes, and the whole question of obesity and weight loss in general.] Taubes is quite convincing when questioning the consensus behind conventional ...
by yoozer
Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:17 am
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: What size shovelglove should I start with?
Replies: 12
Views: 25260

I'm a reasonably big and strong guy, and I started with a 10-pounder. At first I thought it might be a little light, but not after a few days of swinging it around for 14 minutes. I'm surprised that this small amount of exercise, about 4 times a week, has led to noticeable (although modest) muscle d...