Everyday Systems

Kevin

After three and a half weeks, it's an easy habit.

Today is an S day for me. I'll probably go out to dinner, but I'll still not snack or eat dessert.

Have a good day, everyone.

Kevin

Thanks for the treatment: I'll give it a try.

I'd hate to think it's arthritis... but if it is, it is.

Anyway, I've heard good things about Glucosamine sulfate, too. I'm trying to determine if it has any effect on blood glucose before I dive in to that particular pool.

Kevin

Great job!

Kevin

Keep it up... you're doing great!

Kevin

Another successful day. I'm probably going to go to a once a week posting. Reinhard, thanks for the encouragement. I'm not sure what's going on with my shoulders, but I'll be 46 tomorrow, and the march of time might be contributing. Although they hurt, I'm getting more muscular. It feels like tendon...

Kevin

You rock, Jan.

Kevin

Have you considered making the No S diet the "routine" in your life rather than waiting for a one to pair it with? I dearly missed snacks until day 20. At day 20, they no longer appealed to me much. There is some magic around that three week mark. I got through the first three weeks by talking about...

Kevin

Deb, if I took two steps forward and one step back then I would have done more exercise than I did all weekend. :0)

Kevin

I second Reinhard's caution. Take it very easy with shovelglove while starting up. Hold the hammer near the head and go nice and easy.

Kevin

It's nice to see the free market at work here. There are quite a few companies, even major ones like Frito Lay and Nabisco, that are now producing without trans fats. Fritos - at least the standard flavor ones - and Triscuits for example , are trans fat free. Trans fats were originally devised to in...

Kevin

When you say "steele cut oats", do you mean those Irish ones that take forever to cook? I've purchased steel cut oats in the past, but I've never had the 45 minutes it takes to cook them...

Way to go on the diet.

Kevin

Another easy day. I did very little eating in concession to it being an S day.

I have gained weight over the last three days. I haven't SG'd because my shoulders have really hurt. I'm going to have to modify my exercise program for a while, I think.

Kevin

I did McDougall once, quite a long time ago. It was a very strenuous diet. If you are a type II diabetic who still produces insulin , the combination of a healthy diet, weight loss, and regular, aerobic exercise might get you off insulin therapy. The outcome for someone who no longer produces insuli...

Kevin

Keep it up. Not the S day stuff, I mean, but the no S day stuff...

Kevin

See the subject line.

Kevin

This keeps getting easier. I went to a picnic late yesterday afternoon. There was a huge spread, none of which I felt a great desire to eat. Once the burgers hit the grill, I cracked a beer. I had a burger, a few chips, some salad and fresh vegetables, and a big dill pickle (I like mine with lettuce...

Kevin

The two kinds of Diabetes sort of blend into one in the end... Type I diabetes has nothing to do with weight. It begins as an autoimmune response: your body destroys certain cells in your pancreas whilst trying to attack a virus. Neither my son or I was overweight or inactive when we were diagnosed....

Kevin

So, maybe don't aim for a day at a time. After breakfast, aim for lunch. After lunch, aim for dinner. After dinner, aim for breakfast.

Frankly, that's the way I do it. Even a day at a time is hard until the day is over.

Kevin

Friday was another successful day. I did drink black tea in the afternoon just to give myself the idea I was having something... but I think that's allowed. ClickBeetle, Deb, you're too kind. One of the things that got me wanting to try something - anything - to improve my diet, was that my son was ...

Kevin

Reinhard, I noticed that you use a backslash rather than a slash in your personal No S emblem, but the official one uses a backslash is this some sort of a Unix-and-its-variants versus DOS/Windows thing? :0)

Kevin

Your English is excellent. Reinhard will weigh in I'm sure, but here's what I do: I eat exactly what I did before I started. In fact, I eat more at meals, although the addition is all vegetables. They fill you up. There's no magic in this diet, it's based on the power of your will. If you avoid all ...

Kevin

I started No S on a Friday and it worked well for me... I've been incident free for three weeks today. It's do-able. I have no excess of willpower and I've pulled it off so far. On Saturday and Sunday, try not to stray too far. Maybe bigger meals or just a dessert, but maybe try not to go crazy. It ...

Kevin

Another difficult day with the dog at the vet and the kids going every which way. I do have to report that right in the middle of dinner my daughter realized she had a meeting a church in 10 minutes. So I ate a piece of pizza off a napkin in the car, then returned to eat the salad and pasta. I'm sti...

Kevin

Dinner was postponed until 7:30, so it got a little tough to avoid the snacks laid out at my son's school play, but I pulled it off.

Kevin

Leverage is an important factor here. I played with my shiny, new 14 pound hammer last night. Becuase it was heavier, I choked up and... it was effectively lighter than my 10 pounder. I've been doing most of my swinging with my forward arm about a foot and a half down the 10 pounder's handle. If I c...

Kevin

Were you embarassed because you drank a beer, or because you insulted the beer gods by drinking a Coors light? I think of beer as proof that God loves me , personally. Because I can only take so much love (I'm from New England), I limit myself to one very good one a day, with dinner. Best regards.

Kevin

Another fairly easy day. I'm hungry sometimes, but it doesn't bother me. I'm coming up on my three week anniversary. Began at (at least) 194 pounds, currently down to 186.5. I know others don't like to watch the scale, I personally find it interesting. When you drop seven or so pounds in three weeks...

Kevin

Got it. I forgot the context - you're being a beginner.

I'm still not going to do a restart becuase I ate two cucumber slices while I was cutting up making dinner the other night.

Kevin

If any of you have a Harbor Freight store in your neighborhood, they have a really nice 14 pound hammer (yes, 14 pounds - it's probably actually some number of Kgs as it's cast in India) with a nice American Hickory handle for $19.95...

It's going to be my Father's Day gift.

Kevin

A restart for one failure due to social grace? I wonder if all the soul searching and thinking you put into that one half a tart shows just how strong your habit is. Doesn't the exception you made in a weak moment prove the rule of will? However you count it, good luck and I'm glad your family is we...

Kevin

It wasn't even hard today. I did eat a bigger lunch than I had been, but dinner was smaller.

I was eatin w-a-y too much between meals. Way to much.

Kevin

The first week is definitely the worst time. It gets easier day by day: really. I'm in my third week now and just don't desire food between meals. Well, I'm hungry before dinner, but that's okay.

Kevin

I've done this before: bring a plastic knife to that donut celebration. Cut one in half. Eat half. Leave the knife so it's obvious you cut the donut in a sanitary way. You'll be suprised how fast that other half gets eaten. There are others out there that are just looking for an exuse to celebrate, ...

Kevin

Way to go, Deb. It's nice when your forearms feel like fire jelly (to quote Reinhard). Real world work is definitely a challenge. I dug a couple of trenches yesterday for three hours or so (with lots of drink water and wipe the sweat breaks). It was hard, hard work. I'm guessing, though, that I woul...

Kevin

Quick survey...

How heavy is the hammer with which you are SGing? I picked up a 16 pound hammer at Home Depot the other day and was shocked at the weight... I couldn't swing it around for 14 minutes. No way.

Maybe I'm not as manly as I thought. Nah. That can't be it.

Kevin

My sole concession to it being Sunday was a big pretzel and a diet soda while I watched the Nats conclude a sweep of the Florida Marlins... Also drank orange juice twice to treat hypoglycemia. I dug two, twenty-foot-long, two-foot-deep ditches in the builder's backfill yesterday to run some downspou...

Kevin

You'll do great. I started on a Friday - That was a stupid day to start. It'll be a tough week, but by Saturday you'll be on your way.

Kevin

No-S is not a rapid weight loss plan, it's a keep-your-weight-normal-for-a-lifetime plan. If you are looking for something else, you might be disappointed. That being said, I dropped three pounds my first week and two pounds my second. I expect to slow to about a pound a week. The practice of No-S h...

Kevin

Thanks for the dispensation, Jan. Friday afternoon was terrible. I went home hungry and very crabby, got in a fight with my wife but swore I wouldn't break down and snack. Tested my Bg before dinner (I'm diabetic). Turns out I was pretty low (low 50s), hence the crabbiness. Hungry and low go togethe...

Kevin

Of course, we went to a dinner for Sunday School teachers at church (I do teach Sunday School), so I ate less well than I usually do, but still just one plate. Okay, I had a second piece of chicken breast, but it was all but forced on me. I'll call this 90% successful and not look back. Friday start...

Kevin

I started two weeks ago; I've lost 7 pounds.

Good luck!

Kevin

No, it's not Day 1 again. No one is perfect. You're 15 out of 16. Major league baseball players are thrilled with a batting average of .350... Your batting average is .937!

Just don't break the habit you've been forming. All that work you put into it, those 15 days, it's still there, slugger.

Kevin

I think you're doing great.

Today I had an accident. I was making lunch for myself (ham and cheese on rye) and ate a piece of ham before lunch. I swear to God, it was in my mouth and I didn't remember putting it there!

Old habits die hard, nasty, horrible deaths. They do not go easy...

Kevin

Another fairly easy day. It does keep getting easier.

Kevin

Pretty easy day.

Kevin

Other than treating several hypoglycemic episodes (again - next weekend I'm just turning the damn pump off all afternoon), I did well today.

No concessions at all to it being an S day, except for slightly larger meals.

Kevin

Good going.

I hope you are doing well.

Kevin

Worked in the yard a lot, had several hypoglycemic episodes even though my pump was turned way down. Not far enough down, I guess. My concession to it being Sunday was a single beer after dinner while watching the Sox - there is a God - beat the best-team-that-money-can-buy in the New York Yankees. ...

Kevin

Being able to brachiate is truly a sign of strength. I mean, how strong are monkeys? (see subject for correct answer.)

Kevin

I especially liked the hypertension-in-a-tall glass... two bullion cubes a stalk of celery... and sherry extract?

Kevin

Had lunch out with my 11 year old. He wanted to go to McDonalds after Karate (first time in two weeks - we limit it). I had a cheeseburger and a diet soda - then came home and had a salad. Fit on one virtual plate although it did spread out over an hour and a half or so. Still, better that salad tha...

Kevin

One of my goals is to be able to do 20 pull-ups as I once could do (when I was, you know, young and tough). I started shovelgloving in earnest again just a month or so ago. Today, I walked by a pull up bar (well, monkeybars, but they fit the bill) and did three. Six weeks ago, I couldn't do one. I r...

Kevin

Your user name brings to mind all sorts of fun puns... do you remember the move Airplane?

I hope you have nice S days and an easy next week.

Kevin

Today marks the beginning of my second week.

My only difficult times are from 4:30 till 6:30, other than that, I'm cruisin'.

Kevin

I should have noted in my previous post that these exercises could be dangerous - truly - given that the hammer spends much of its time directly over your coconut.

Think many times before you try them yourself.

Kevin

After contemplation of one of Reinhard's posts about indian club exercises, I'm doing some exercises with my hammer that stretch the original shovelglove concept of simulating hard labor. I thought hard about whether to post this. I'm no apostate. These do feel really good, though. I do a slow drive...

Kevin

A successful day yesterday. I'm lucky that I have a pretty regular schedule. Evening snacking is not an issue anymore (not even a temptation, even when I'm watching TV) - but the stretch from lunch to dinner is still a bit of a challenge. Scale says I'm 189, down five pounds in a week, but some of t...

Kevin

I don't know that the changes I'm seeing in my insulin requirements are unusual. What they point out should be a lesson for all No-S devotees. When you use an insulin pump, you infuse insulin in two ways. First, you program a basal rate that provides you what you need for normal anatomical function ...

Kevin

Tough time in the late afternoon. I was very hungry at 5:30 p.m., but I gutted it out. I'm hoping that for every time I keep this promise to myself, it'll get a little easier the next time. Diabetes update: Total daily insulin intake is down 30% since the week before the diet and still dropping. Hyp...

Kevin

Deb, You know what they say about Chinese food... an hour later, you're hungry again. :0) I've been finding I've been sleeping a lot better going to bed a little hungry (and I don't wake up hungry). Try telling yourself that next time you wake up and want to graze. Water with a little lemon juice te...

Kevin

Had another successful day. Still hungry between meals, but I'm getting to the point where I don't fixate on it - keeping busy is the key.

In three weeks, when this is a habit, I'll be a happy guy.

Kevin

Jan-Tz wrote: (snipped...) Wish I had known about it years ago!

But we did, didn't we? My mother always insisted on three meals, no snacking...

Kevin

Very busy Sunday. My only concession to it being an S day was a beer before dinner and one extra piece of bread with dinner (I'm not giving up beer, I just usually have one with dinner). Insulin requirements are d-r-o-p-p-i-n-g quickly... Pump basal setting down 25% since Friday. Holy crap! (For you...

Kevin

Friday was a success. I did graze a carrot and a cucumber slice before dinner, but other than that minor accident (hey, they were on the table and old habits die hard), I was 100%. So say I was 99%. Saturday was my first S day... I had a big dinner, and a beer with it, but it still fit on one plate)...

Kevin

Forgive me if this is more or less a duplicate post... I thought I'd posted previously, but I might have timed out and not posted. Hi. I'm Kevin. I eat too much. So here I am on my first day of NoS: starting on Friday might not have been the best idea, but starting on any day is better than not star...

Kevin

Hi, Casey. I've been SGing on and off for a year (off sometimes because of an injured shoulder). You can, maybe should, start with something lighter. Does your husband have a baseball bat? You can probably find one at a yard sale. Get the motions down - or make them up. You can pretend your a martia...

Kevin

Well.... I hurt the shoulder holding pads for someone at Karate. The guy threw a roundhouse after I relaxed, torquing my shoulder quite hard. My shoulder is much better, although I don't know that I'll ever get complete range of motion back. But I can sleep on it, do work with it, raise it to almost...

Kevin

I was in Home Depot yesterday. On the tool rack were hammers purported to be 10 pounders. The heads bore no weight mark. They were markedly bigger than my own 10 pounder. I picked one up - I estimate it weighed 16 pounds. Just to be sure, I went home and weighed myself with and without my (much smal...

Kevin

Terrific new bulletin board! Hello, everyone. Just some status from the most insane shovel glover of the bunch (mostly because I do it outside in full view of neighbors). My shovelglove workout consists of the following: Squat, grab, pick up and toss a 31x16x10 truck tire as far as possible. 50 reps...

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