Everyday Systems

Blog is short fro Weblog, and is akin to an online diary, generally maintained by one person or a small group. This here thingummy is a discussion forum, where anyone can contribute and reply. A bllog will often have a 'comments' section, where other folk can respond to the the blogger's opinions, b...

If you're really struggling to find something, you could always gaffa tape a bag of sugar to the end of your crowbar. Just don't let it hit anything at speed, or it will suddenly start snowing.

Sorry for the cheesy (mmm, cheese) subject title. I just wanted to give some kudos to that word before the 'S' for helping me lose weight. In this social snacking society, it seems to have become the norm to feed people whenever you see them. Okay that's a slight exaggeration, but if you visit someo...

I agree in that I see no problem with altering the 'no snacks' rule to 'no bad snacks' provided you can trust yourself to maintain that. If you get in to the habit of snacking on carrots at a certain time of day, what are you going to do when it gets to that time and you only have a large slice of c...

I agree with Melmac. The only arbitrary quantity/quality in this diet is the number of meals, and that's defined largely by society. This does not mean that people who dislike societal values get to eat more often. I'd say that half the point of the no seconds rule (completely different to the three...

I would like my stomach to look normally as it does when I pull it in.

I would also like to learn to fly a plane, earn/own one million pounds and do something worthwhile for humanity, but these are somewhat beyond the scope of this diet.

I was only two days old when 1980 began.

Mr Tremblay: I agree with your assessment of BMI. I am a lot fitter and narrower around the waist than I was a few months ago and my BMI, which was fine before, now places mw in the overweight category.

I also find your above options restrictive, as I have no idea what you mean by 'spiritual' in this context. If you can be more specific, I can give you an answer.

Just to really annoy you all, I'll state that I have managed to be a weekend and evening luddite for a couple of months now, simply because I haven't had the time to sit in front of my PC.

This is vaguely irritating, as I want to put some new music on my MP3 player...

Don't worry too much - if the media over here are to be believed then the UK will be catching up in terms of heart disease in no time. Where did you read this study? A lot of people I know don't even drive anywhere because they can't be bothered to walk to the car. Much as I'd like this country to b...

On the topic of music (at least vaguely), it seems that playing a wind or brass instrument (anything you play by blowing into it) can also help you lose weight. It encourages correct breathing, meaning that more oxygen hares its merry way around your cells and makes more of your activity aerobic, th...

That's not a particularly good idea. The earlier in the morning you eat, the more food you'll end up burning during the day. If you delay the first meal of the day, your body will fail to start its more active cycle until later on and you'll find you're even less hungry and you'll have no energy. Ea...

Hello, hello.

If you do have low blood sugar, drinking only water before bed is something to avoid - it will flush your system even more and aggravate the problem. Fruit juice would be an improvement.

Vaguely interesting, but I'm not sure if it should be here or in the NoS part of the forum.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5008824.stm

I had my BMI checked a while ago and it said I was overweight, at which point the nurse looked at me, then looked back at her readout, then back at me, then back at the readout, then disregarded the answer and wrote down 'normal' on her chart. I think a combination of factors must be viewed for an a...

I generally eat pretty much what I feel like; the only difference 'twixt now and before I started this diet (which is now at the point where I've completely forgotten I'm doing it) is that I now eat at mealtimes rather than whenever I want to. This has rendered results. As I eat fairly well anyway (...

A thought on not taking action: The failure to take any action on the basis of indecision is different to inaction on the basis of a decision. That came out rather more prosaic than intended. I choose to take my seven breaths (which is about thirty seconds; conveniently the same time as that for a m...

I'd like to hear the science behind this, too. Unfortunately, it seems that the originator of this scheme knows little about it himself. The No-S site has more in the way of realistic scientific and social/behavioural documentation than the tripe I just read in that interview. For a scientist, it se...

I've noticed a lot of people on this forum seem to list problems with finding the time to shop and the 'random and probably useless statistics'part of my brain is now wondering to what kind of a schedule you all adhere for said activity and where you buy your food. I am quite lucky, as there is a go...

Hey-ho, all. Apologies for the lack of communication over the past week - I've been on holiday in (mostly) sunny Cyprus and adhering to the 'ignore the diet completely' variation of No-S (by conscious decision). I ended up eating only at mealtimes anyway and I seem to have lost an inch or so around ...

Hello unto you all! I thought that, since there was a message board here, I'd stick up a post to say hello. And I have. Well done me. I started the No S Diet recently (about a week ago) and am already feeling a lot healthier, though I suppose that may be partly a placebo effect. I've never been over...