Everyday Systems

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Reinhard

JAD, sorry I haven't popped in here sooner. I've not, alas, been able to convince either of my parents to shovelglove, though my dad has always been a methodical exerciser so it's not really an issue (my mom on the other hand...). I'm not going to knock kettlebells (except perhaps in jest). They see...

Thanks for this follow up. "Snacks" has moved up in the rankings (1+6+2+1=10) But looks like "sweets" is still (narrowly) in the lead (3+6+1+1=11). "Seconds" is a distant third (2+2+1+1=6) This is interesting to me, because though I can't quite say whether "snacks" or "seconds" were my biggest probl...

kwidener7 just reported passing two of my three suggested criteria for testimonials in just 7 months (-18 pounds, -10%+):

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6689

Reinhard

Congratulations!

2/3 milestones is impressive indeed -- especially considering all you have to do to make 3/3 is hold out for three more months.

Thanks for lettings us know.

Reinhard

Yeah, it's hard to tease these apart... many snacks and "seconds" involve sweets. I guess it's a little early to make sweeping conclusions, but I'm a little surprised that snacks is in last place. Although I guess in a way that makes sense. Statistically snacking is the biggest culprit, in terms of ...

Look, I'm not going to knock diet; it's a subject I'm obviously very interested in and believe it can make a huge difference. But it makes no sense to me to say in an "input-output" system that one side of the equation doesn't matter. As to which is harder to control, I think that's highly subjectiv...

Here's the way I look at it: weight loss (even sustained weight loss) isn't the real goal -- or at least, it shouldn't be. The real goal should be eating and moving in moderation. Odds are your excess weight a symptom of an excessive behavior in one or the other of these departments or (most likely)...

"It's a marathon, not a sprint" and all that, but some people do get startlingly fast results. Ironsickel just reported losing 18 pounds in a single month: That's probably some kind of quantitative record for no-s, but the following qualitative comment made me very happy to read as well: Really enjo...

Congratulations, ironsickel. That's "testimonials worthy" (I'll post a link to this from the sticky discussion) and you're barely past the magic 21 days! That's probably some kind of quantitative record for no-s, but the following qualitative comment made me very happy to read as well: Really enjoyi...

Anyone else do this yet?

I just got my paperwork packet in the mail.

Now just a matter of find 20 spare minutes to plow through it...

Reinhard

Congratulations, July, and welcome to the club.

Thursday July 29th: glass ceiling failure. 2 drinks over the limit. Going away party for a friend. Nothing disastrous, but red. Friday July 30th: another going away party for another friend and another 2 drink over the limit glass ceiling violation. Saturday July 31: weekend luddite failure. work de...

Make your meals count. View every meal as an opportunity for real enjoyment. I'll help you hold out and resist sweet-snacks in between if you're sustained by fond memories of your last meal and pleasant anticipation of your next. If you're feeling that you don't have enough willpower to resist the o...

Congratulations, gyoshoshinshi!

Pounds are one things, but this is a milestone that really matters.

Glad no-s is working for you and thanks for letting us know,

Reinhard

Welcome, Joe. I haven't had any experience with tendonitis, so I can't really comment except to give my generic injury prevention advice to slow down a bit and stop immediately and take the next day off if anything hurts. For the first time in ages, I did 6 days of shovelglove last week (and a super...

Some support for " strictness makes it easier " from a Harvard Business Review article by Clayton M. Christensen: http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/4 Unconsciously, we often employ the marginal cost doctrine in our personal lives when we choose between right and wrong. A voice...

Larisa, When I hear that people successfully apply an everyday system, no doubt, I'm thrilled. But when people report taking the underlying concepts and rolling their own systems, with striking long-term success, that's in another league altogether. And to think that I've been, in however convoluted...

Just realized Reinhard was serious about that exercise thing. Did a search on it and yeah people actually exercise this way. Oh, I'm serious all right. And it's not just "people" -- look at the by-line at the bottom. http://shovelglove.com/ If swinging around a sledgehammer is too crazy for you her...

cricket, It's true that there are happy, successful no-essers here who also count calories. But it doesn't sound like that's an appealing or even mentally safe option for you (or me). There are other alternatives to ramp things up without resorting to this. 1) Intelligent dietary defaults are my fav...

Thank you, carolejo! Glad to see you here. Hope things are going well.

Welcome, RacyOne! If you want, you can start your own daily check-in thread and record everything there. It's a good way to get at least the feeling of accountability, which can be helpful.

Reinhard

It's been a while since I've given the shovelglove store much attention, but I finally got a chance over the weekend and made 3 significant improvements: 1) amazon's stock of in stock hammers has expanded considerably. I added links to an ultra-light 6 pounder, massive 16 pounder, and beastly 20 pou...

Welcome back, Sherlock.

Sounds like a hell of a job. Hope they paid you well, at least (and more importantly, that you've found something less stressful).

Reinhard

P.S. congratulations on getting married!

"Testimonial?" "Scientific?" Those two words don't seem to go together on the surface. But Kathleen recently alerted me to the existence of National Weight Control Registry, which investigates "long-term successful weight loss maintenance." http://www.nwcr.ws/ The criteria are more stringent that wh...

He does seem like a good guy and I wish him the best (not just because I like his movies). But as with most of these hollywood weight loss stories, I don't know how much of what he's done is replicable by ordinary folks. Not to diminish his achievement -- getting sober is no small thing and no amoun...

I've never seen a scale that didn't have this problem. The big ones at the gym and doctor's offices are pretty good, but not, as I describe here, infallible: http://www.everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=24 I'd say the solution is not to get a better scale, but to focus on behavior and habit...

Thursday July 22: No-s and shovelglove special day: our ninth wedding anniversary.

Vicky has lost 30 pounds in 2 years: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6629 Although these are great numbers, as is so often the case with no-s, Vicky's "qualitative" achievements are almost more important that the quantitative. She experimented with a bunch of different mods and tweaks,...

I don't worry about this at all. Yes, my plates tend to be on the generous side; but the eating stops there. Is it possible to overeat like this? Sure. But not by that much. And it'll be obvious when you do -- a lot of food will look like a lot of food. The undeniable sight of excess is all the ince...

Vicki, Congratulations and thank you for posting here! 2 years and 40 pounds -- these are not small achievements. But as usual in this forum, your "qualitative" accomplishments are at least as important. And they're not unrelated, of course: all that "head chatter," miserable as it is in itself, usu...

Thanks for the suggestion, Kathleen.

I'll make a note about it in the testimonials section.

I guess I qualify myself -- maybe I should try to join.

Here's the link:

http://www.nwcr.ws/

Reinhard

I'm partial to these.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=everydaysystems

(HD versions pending)

Reinhard

And now, ladies and gentlemen, behold the 50 pound shovelglove , NOT some pre-fab, overpriced, soulless hunk of commercial "exercise equipment" but, in the true spirit of shovelglove, a home-forged creation: http://shovelglove.com/images/picsofthe50poundhammer/hammerSideways.png The combat book for ...

Here's a beta-microsystem to get in some more frequent movement throughout the day without adding much memory burden. It's [somewhat too] evocatively named: P-ups. Every time you go to the bathroom, bang out 21 pushups (or 5 pull-ups, if you have a bar available). Gets the blood flowing on a frequen...

I can post pics if I ever figure out how to do that on this forum. The thing is huge. I may have to upgrade the bulletin board to phpbb version 3 just to see this. My god, now YOU are the master. :-) If you email me a picture, I'd be happy to plop it on the site in the meantime. Reinhard reinhard.e...

Interesting... but here's why I don't think plate size is the first thing one should focus on (I don't worry about it at all): In the U.S. at least, the vast majority of the increase in caloric intake since the 1970s has come from snacks. For women, it's more than 100% -- calories from meals, supers...

Thanks, I did! Madrid is a pretty awesome city and I picked a pretty awesome time to be there -- I just wish I could have stayed through Sunday. I was impressed at how BIG it seems. I know it's not as big as Paris or London or New York in terms of area or population, but it has a very imposing feeli...

It's sweet that he's so solicitous of your welfare, but this sounds a little excessive.

Is your neighborhood very dangerous?

I guess I'd gently suggest to him that inactivity is dangerous, too.

Best of luck and let us know how it goes!

Reinhard

I saw two urban ranger relevant articles in the NY Times today: First, an article on how French women manage to "age gracefully:" From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/fashion/15French.html?src=me&ref=homepage Not that they exercise. When my husband and I arrived in Paris and asked our personal ba...

Thursday June 24: glass ceiling failure. One drink over the limit. Would have been easy to avoid -- was out with two fellow daddies who aren't exactly hardened drinkers. Oh well. Tuesday July 6- Friday July 9: No-s Special days. I was in Madrid for a conference. I don't know if I'll every be there a...

I keep being shocked by how unoriginal I am!

This "new solution" of meal based eating and systematically moderate exercise has been lying right under our noses for generations.

My only hope is that I've given it the right spin to finally catch on.

Reinhard

KCCC, a long-time no-esser and a pillar of this online community, recently updated her testimonial to let us know that she's slowly and steadily (and with "minimal panic") recovered from a very difficult year. Please join me in congratulating her. http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=83039#...

KCCC,

Congratulations and thanks for the update!

It may not sound exciting, but "slow-but-steady progress...with minimal panic" is exactly what we should all be going for.

Reinhard

kassabma from Michigan has hit a testimonial-qualifying milestone in a little over a month (-16.8 pounds):

It isn't usually this quick, but it's possible, and it sure is nice when it happens:

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6611

Reinhard

Welcome and good luck!

I think you may be surprised at how no-s changes your relationship to sweets. Though of course you're always welcome to make whatever modifications you see fit, I'd recommend giving vanilla a good solid try first. You might be surprised.

Reinhard

That is interesting, KCCC -- thanks for the link. As BrightAngel points out, it's not exactly surprising, but still, nice to see some quantitative evidence. And I think people often forget that, though it might be worth it or even necessary for some people in some situations, tracking comes at a cos...

Congratulations, kassabma! And thank you for letting us know.

Since this meets the "rule of 10s" criterion for a testimonial, I hope you don't mind if you link to it from the testimonials announcement discussion?

Reinhard

I haven't seen Oprah's new way.

Anyone have a link to a succinct description of it?

I'm happy to hear it's no-s-like. Actual, name-brand No-s would be nicer for my ego (and my wallet), but if people just wind up eating sensibly again that'll make me happy too.

Reinhard

DaveMC recently completed his one year anniversary on No-S (-20 pounds). Here's a small "teaser" from his testimonial: NoS is a *perfect* match to my personal psychology: simple, effective, and unobtrusive, just as advertised. I took to it right away, and was lucky enough to have it stick the first ...

Wosnes, I was just looking over my reply to your original post and in retrospect it looks a little FORCEFUL (not to mention tangential) -- I hope you realize that not even the slightest particle of that was directed against you. If it seemed otherwise, please accept my sincere apology. Best, Reinhard

Yeah, it's a little crazy!

I have a day and a half left if anyone has any last minute urban ranger suggestions:

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6603

Reinhard

I'm in the Mediterranean as I write (Madrid, Viva EspaÃ±a! -- and Alemagna, too), but with due respect to the somewhat portly Dr. Weil, I am reinforced in my view that what matters in terms of weight control is not stuff, but structure: EAT MEALS, like people do in EspaÃ±a, and everywhere else where...

But then I read my current vps hosting provider's take on it: From: http://rimuhosting.com/vps-servers BUSTING THE BUZZWORDS: CLOUD COMPUTING; UTILITY COMPUTING; GRID COMPUTING There are a lot of buzzwords out there. 'Cloud' and 'Utility' computing are hot topics in the blogsphere. We think these ma...

Very cool! It's is a great milestone for the habitcal that other developer(s) are creating their own views using its "API." I'm honored! I see you generated this using Jit -- coincidentally I've been playing around with Jit, too. Here's a "treemap" of a snapshot of the entire habitcal database: http...

Congratulations and thanks for letting us know! Thanks also for giving details on your "mod" -- people tend to be very prolific with mods but it's very interesting to hear which one's actually stick. At some point I should consolidate reports of long term successful mods from the testimonials sectio...

I'm in Madrid for the week for a conference. I don't have a whole lot of leisure time, but anyone have any good urban rangering suggestions? I'm near Puerto del Sol the and I've hit the super obvious places like the Prado. Anyone have any restaurants they recommend? (assuming I survive the world cup...

How's this, Blaze? http://www.everydaysystems.com/habitcal/view/?o=2&v=json&sc=1&m=6&y=2010&t=nosdiet&t=shovelglove&t=glassceiling&t=weekendluddite To generate your own, select export (json) from the view list. Unlike tsv, there are a bunch of different ways I could emit JSON. I haven't thought abou...

It's your call. If you want to take it as an S-day, that's totally legit. But if you'd rather not, you're under no obligation to (you're never under any obligation, but since the 4th is the actual holiday, you can skip the 5th without feeling like you're doing something masochistic). I've often take...

I'm actively working on gathering empirical evidence for you, but unfortunately it's going to take me a few more decades :-) But I can give you encouraging news about the the medium term. I'm 36 now and started shugging when I was 28. If anything, I'm far more into it now than I was back in 2002. So...

In March of this year, ShannahR hit her first "testimonial" milestone: -10 pounds. She just posted an update saying she hit another: -10% (down to -17 pounds). Please join me in congratulating her. She also provided a helpful month by month breakdown of her weight loss which might be helpful to newb...

Shannah, thank you for your update and congratulations on your continued success! Just as "maintenance is more important than progress" I think updates are more important than the original testimonial. I think your month by month breakdown might be very helpful for newbies budgeting what to expect. ...

I guess this is just a low-tech way of doing the HabitCal. The low tech way of doing the habitcal is with a physical calendar and 3 markers. The problem with the Seinfeld system is that there is no tolerance for failures. One slipup and you're at zero -- you've lost everything. With the habitcal (p...

This is great, Punky. Thanks for posting it. Interesting, but normally my response to this sort of article is "Ignore them, they change their minds every couple of years, anyway." In this case, I agree with their general conclusion, so I'd advise people not to ignore them. That's more or less exactl...

Welcome back, oolala53!

I might just upgrade to phpbb3, actually...

The drupal and django bulletin board modules just don't look up to snuff. The BB is the heart of this site and I don't want to compromise that just to use something with sexy internals.

Reinhard

Sounds like a great alternating routine. Though I doubt I'll be tempted to stray from the way of the hammer, I look forward to messing around with kettlebells myself some day. I guess I should do it just as comparative "market research." It's not recommended to do this with weights, and I've avoided...

Thanks, Wosnes.

These are great. 101 is a lot though! Almost wish he'd narrowed it down a bit -- too much good stuff.

Steaks are defrosting as I write...

Reinhard

I've just made the dangerous discovery that my cell phone contract is about to expire, so it's possible I might even get an iphone rather than a touch (have to wait for the dust to settle on this antenna issue). One or the other is in my near future (August or September), and I'm confident I'll bang...

Wow. This tops any of the dumb things I did in my unreformed days (mainly because I didn't have 10 million dollars to lose). From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/business/global/01oil.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=business June 30, 2010 Drink. Trade. Refill. Lose $10 Million. By JULIA WERDIGIER LONDON â€”...

Welcome back!

It can take a few tries to get this down, don't be discouraged.

Here's hoping that this one is it, though!

Reinhard

It makes sense that shovelglove prepares you for real life work -- but it's always great to hear more actual, empirical evidence.

Thanks, Dittany!

Reinhard

Hi guille, My suggestion is to make the exercise habit that you commit to purely about time (say, 14 minutes every N-day), then leave the kind of exercise you do during that time up to your daily self. That way you can seamlessly incorporate shovelglove, this bodyweight thing, and whatever else seem...

Interesting stuff... But I wouldn't worry about large meals encouraging snacking. It's possible there is some shred of truth to this, but my guess is that the science is still very murky, and almost certainly not worth the extra complexity cost to bake into your system. And although I've got nothing...

Absolutely. From the home page: I love the No S Diet, but my doctor says I need to eat 4/5/6 meals a day because of my medical condition! The No S Diet has a little known loophole just for you. If you look closely at the site, you'll notice that nowhere does it specify the actual *number* of meals. ...

Very cool. I actually saw that a while back and posted a mention of the habitcal, hoping to attract the Great Man's attention. But it seems, alas, like he has better things to do than trawl internet bulletin boards for mentions of his name (or perhaps he's just an avid practitioner of weekend luddit...

ashbeephoto has posted a POWERFUL testimonial here: http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=82480 Some highlights: * No-s helped Ashbee conquer BED ( Binge Eating Disorder -- pretty serious stuff) * She lost 60 pounds -- in time for her wedding * While "enjoying food" and eating like a "sane p...

And the chart is great too!

Reinhard

Ashbee, I'm sorry it took me a few days to see your post. This is wonderful news -- congratulations and thank you so much for sharing it. I began no-s and did it 100% I only took "S" days on special occasions (but in all fairness to that I am the oldest of 12 kids, have a large extended family, and ...

Thanks for the business advice (and general vote of confidence). I've had somewhat bare bones nosdiet shirts on sale at cafepress for years, and though I have sold a few, it hasn't exactly altered my lifestyle. :-) But that could be simply because I'm a much lousier merchandiser than a concocter of ...

Deb, I'm so sorry it's been forever since I popped by, but congratulations! I was just reading something about how natural systems like the human body tend to have a lot of redundancy built into them so they can deal with adversity: two lungs, two kidneys, etc. We can live with one but nature has gi...

Marc, I've long been impressed with your numbers, but to butcher the old cliche, a picture is worth a thousand of those. And these, maybe 10 thousand. Wow. What a striking transformation. You look great, even eyeless :-). And thanks for posting such an abundance of "evidence" -- clearly this isn't j...

Apparently when you highlight a passage of a book on your kindle, it gets communicated back to amazon and aggregated on their website. Although a tad creepy I guess (though I assume everything is suitably anonymized), this is very cool, not just for authors of kindle books but also for (prospective ...

Hi Julie,

You have to hit the "add" link to add one or more tags first.

Then select them from the link.

Sorry this isn't more obvious. Screencast (and more intuitive tag management) pending!

Reinhard

I'm sorry you've had a rough few weeks, but congratulations on catching yourself. Also, I am starting to wonder if there's ANYTHING I can ever do to be thin, for good. I think, if I were going to lose the weight, I would have done it by now. Yes. Here's what: stop worrying about it. No-s isn't about...

I use the force (and my eyeballs). Worked great for my skinny ancestors, works great for me.

Reinhard

Be careful of trying too much at once. If you're having trouble sticking with one thing, it's going to be even harder sticking with two or more. No-s is just about controlling excess, not about particular kinds of food. That doesn't mean nutrition is not an important issue too, but it's easier to ta...

Sunday June 13: weekend luddite failure. My brother came up from NYC to do some preliminary shooting for a shovelglove-HD video. This involved some diddling on the computer. For a good cause, I think, as I hope I'll soon be able to show you, but still red.

Reinhard

Welcome back, groovy1!

I'm so glad it's getting easier for you. Habit is a powerful thing.

Reinhard

guess what beautiful people , i injured my back with the shovelglove I'm sorry to hear it... dont worry reinhard im not going to sue you Thank you! I hope you don't mind that I've taken the extra precaution of not having any money. :-) any advice so this wont happen again? If anything hurts, stop i...

The modern "marathon" is based on the legendary accomplishment of a messenger during the Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.). It wasn't part of the Olympic games until the first Modern olympics (1896). Which means the un-moderate marathon as a sporting event wasn't invented by the very moderate Ancient G...

Although I'm not so into the "stuff" angle of diet, and I don't believe that any one region of the world has a monopoly on good traditional eating, this guy didn't advocate anything crazy and I'm sure his premature end wasn't brought on by traditional mediterranean cuisine. Yeah, it's a reminder tha...

Thanks for posting this slider.

Great move -- and great name.

I've tried something similar on occasion on my "freestyle fridays," so I can vouch personally for the efficacy of the move.

Reinhard

Part of me still really wants to run a marathon at some point, I'm actually considering this myself... Isn't it odd that the most renowned sporting event of the Greeks, who were so into moderation, is the profoundly un-moderate marathon? It can't be mere inconsistency -- there must be some deep rea...

Hi Graham, Sorry for the ridiculously late reply. The phpbb search function is a little goofy. I'm planning on doing a major site overhaul some in 2010 and porting everything either to drupal or django (still on the fence about which to use). So the search (and everything else on the site) will get ...

I hear you... keep the nudges coming! I think I may get a touch myself when the new version comes out (September?). I'm all about coming up with stuff that I use myself, so actually having one will be decisive. I heard about yet another toolkit for developing iphone/android apps without delving into...

Welcome! I like the Corvus Corax -- very Catchy, in a quasi-satanic kind of way. :-) what gets me about this type of training is that I cant imagine getting bored with it. There is something inherently fun about swinging around a sledgehammer -- especially if you're "role playing" at the same time. ...

This question comes up a lot... and I think I'll shortly have a very convincing answer for it. My brother was doing some test shooting with his HD camcorder for a shovelglove DVD we're hoping to put together and I took my shirt off for a bit because I was curious about whether or not it would be vis...

Oops. Should have posted this in "off topic." Oh well.

Hi Julie,

What is the problem you're having?

It is a little more confusing than it has to be... I'm hoping to make it more obvious in the next version (and do a screencast showing how to use it).

Reinhard

Thanks for stopping by, Deb! Hi back to you and Richie.

Yes, things are going well again after a very rough spell last fall and winter.

Good luck with the ultra-strict no-s!

Reinhard

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