Everyday Systems

From diet books to cook books... and 7kg lighter. This is what No S did for "NoSDoc" (an actual doctor!) as described in a very thoughtful and interesting yearly check-in: From: https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10950 Being a doctor you would automatically look for a diet that makes sen...

"From diet books to cookbooks..." I love it! And from doctor (a 7kg lighter doctor, at that). Congratulations on your success and thank you for this thoughtful, informative, inspiring post! I find this part particularly interesting: Being a doctor you would automatically look for a diet that makes s...

My lines tend to be pretty generously drawn (tasting while cooking is a culinary necessity, jam or honey on toast is fine, yoghurt is fine, if I can see it all in front of me in a clearly delimited space it doesn't have to be on a single physical plate) but I'm pretty strict about not crossing these...

Very nice!

I'm a huge fan of cast iron for all purposes.

Inspired movement names!

(Love the username, too!)

Best of luck and keep us posted,

Reinhard

I like it!

May have to give it a spin myself...

Thanks for sharing and let us know how it's going!

Reinhard

Please join me in congratulating 1984man, who now not only has 5 years of No-s practice under his (significantly looser) belt, but has joined the proud ranks of the "I've lost more than Reinhard on the No S diet" club. From: https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10938 This morning I weighed...

Wow, very impressive numbers! You have now officially joined the "I've lost more than Reinhard on the No S Diet" club. So great to see such continued success over several years, that even with some "on and off", you've always managed to catch yourself and the net result is far more on than off. Than...

Thanks for the links!

I love stuff like this.

Yet more reason why no s is aka "the grandma diet."

Reinhard

Funny, there was a time when people were worried that No-s only worked for men.

In any case, you're definitely not the only male of the species here. Welcome!

Reinhard

Oh goodness, let me see if I can remember this... Ah, it's actually hiding on the main habitcal page https://everydaysystems.com/habitcal/ The formula (a bit crude) is: green / (( green + red ) - ( special percent exceeding 7%)) So a perfect score for a period would be no red days, and no more than ...

Welcome and good luck, kaalii!

You are definitely in it for the right reasons!

Reinhard

Huh... I'll have to think on that!

What you say makes sense, but I have to consider the delicate feelings of my wife and easily mortified tween daughters.

Reinhard

Welcome!

Not much to add to what others have already said -- just to add my "amen" to focusing on habit vs. pounds, and trying to relax and enjoy vs. obsessing. It might seem paradoxical, but being comically strict about the rules actually helps in that department.

Reinhard

Hey, you've come to the right place to find people who care. Maybe we care a little too much! (166664 posts, mostly on this subject, last time I checked). So congratulations, and thank you for sharing this with us! I'm so happy it's not only effective for you, but also sounds really enjoyable. It's ...

Glad you liked it, Noni, and thanks for the tips.

I have all the gear now, and I have some idea how to use it, now the challenge is finding sufficient silent blocks of solo time to record it -- a very rare commodity for me these days!

But I will persevere.

Welcome back, prodigals! I've promoted this to be a second order "sticky" thread linked to by the new "sticky of stickies," so it should be easier for future prodigals to find without people having to stress about bumping it up over and over again to keep it above the fold. Thank you spiritsong, for...

I've finally gone ahead and created a "sticky of stickies" and added the "why did you leave? why are you back?" thread to it. I moved most of the existing stickies there as well.

Hopefully an improvement? Let me know!

Reinhard

We've had so many candidates for promotion to "sticky," easy-to-find discussion threads that we'd bury any new topics if I went ahead and actually made them all sticky. This is a good problem! But a problem nonetheless... So for now, this is what I'm going to do: reduce the number of current sticky ...

Very nice -- thank you!

I love parsley. And it's so ridiculously good for you.

This recipe sounds like a great way to make it more than just a garnish.

I'd also never heard of einkorn bread. Very interesting! I'll keep my eyes open for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einkorn_wheat

Reinhard

"No Sweets" gets really nice on day 6, if you can make it just a little longer. :-) Habit will make those intervals much more bearable, kind of nice even. By reducing your tolerance, a little goes a much longer way, and you'll get more enjoyment from your weekend indulgences. In the meantime, lots o...

Thanks, Ray! I think I move slightly quicker, I certainly don't talk so much. When I do a "routine of sevens" normally, I easily get two and a half cycles in. My most common personal routine these days is "the routine of 14s." Same basic idea, just 14 reps per set instead of 7. I get through one of ...

Good suggestion about the training vs workout... I have better audio gear now (pyramid foam is on the way!) and a bit of a clue how to take advantage of it (for my no s audio book recording project) so hopefully it should be too difficult to bang out something more polished and follow-alongable soon...

Quick update on the audiobook. I've been going through the videos here: http://www.acx.com/help/video-lessons-resources/200672590 And started listening to this helpful (and mercifully short!) audiobook on recording audiobooks: http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Development/The-Stressed-Out-Writers-Guide...

Glad you like it! I'll go ahead and make it sticky in the shovelglove forum (I've also updated the "video" link on the main shovelglove page and movements page to point to it). Sadly Gingi's brother and the other co-muse of shovelglove (still immortalized on the home page) didn't make it quite so lo...

[Sorry for the cross post -- I figured No-essers might be interested in this as well, especially if intrigued but somewhat baffled by shovelglove. This is an easier onramp I think than the movement specific videos.] The 14 minute video you've been waiting for for 14 years: a full shovelglove workout...

The 14 minute video you've been waiting for for 14 years: a full shovelglove workout for beginners you can follow along with. Sorry about the wind noise. Sorry also I couldn't fit quite two complete cycles of movements in -- talking through the movements messed with my timing a bit. Consider it an u...

We already discussed it in passing last week, but here's my "official" notice of Oolala's tremendous achievement (we've been getting so many testimonials/yearly updates recently I've been getting nervous about overwhelming the facebook feed!): "I just want to emphasize that No S has been instrumenta...

That's wonderful, Oolala! Should have included those extra stats in my facebook posting just now: "I just want to emphasize that No S has been instrumental in my weaning myself off 'extra' food. I've continued to learn that I can very comfortably eat less often and, over time, less food but higher q...

I'm so happy to hear this, MaggieMae, and sorry it's taken me so long to make further obvious progress on this. I got my hands on a decent mic, figured out "audacity" to a degree, have marked up some sections in Chapter 1 so I'll be less surprised when I come across them, and have come up with a new...

oolala53, Congratulations on your continued achievement and apologies that I didn't see this update till now! Thank you for sharing it here with us. Your numbers are great, but the real number I love is the years you've been doing this. Nothing makes me happier than reading these long term, continue...

oolala Just seeing this now! Sorry for not noticing sooner... Forgive some out of order testimonial recognition, will get to yours very shortly! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Maintenance is more important than progress." It's a core maxim aroun...

Congratulations, Kittson! "Maintenance is more important that progress" and great to see another, successful and thoughtfully expressed example of it here. Love that somehow audiodidact slipped into there too! The everyday systems do work well together, sometimes in mysterious ways... I tremendously...

chentegt has been No-essing for 5 years now. Most of that has been maintenance -- he got where he wanted to be weight-wise rather quickly, but as we know here "maintenance is more important than progress." He also noticed something funny along the way -- with every major life change (most recently, ...

Ah, great to see the connection, Linda! (and thank you for the review!)

Congratulations and thank you for letting us know!

5-years is certainly a nice round number!

Love the way you've framed your success, too.

Reinhard

Thanks for these and sorry it's taken me so long to pop by here! I too, enjoyed Dan Harris's book, but alas, haven't yet bee able to build a lasting practice around meditation. Definitely room for everyday systems like methods to help here.... love the 14 minutes. Sleep is a funny one for me. Usuall...

Repeat visits to the 21 day club are encouraged. It's really all about what's motivationally helpful to you and others. Sometimes that second or third visit can represent a triumph of willpower much greater and even more worth of recognition than the first.

So well come back!

Welcome back! Don't worry about not being "a normal person", on the contrary, by practicing no-s you're being actively normal. As Holocene beautifully put it: I think the beauty of NoS is that it makes you eat like a normal person. It's stops us who are predisposed to grazing, snacking and bingeing ...

Got em.

Thanks, osoniye, anra.

Impressive testimonial by way of a book review: This diet has been an absolute lifesaver for me. After years of chronic dieting starting at age 10 (I'm 47), my relationship with food & my body was extremely unhealthy. I was on a different diet plan every week. I'd go from under eating to overeating ...

Today marks my 1-year anniversary of being on the No-S Diet. My scale shows only a few pounds of weight loss, but that doesn't tell the whole story... No-S has done wonderful things for my mindset around eating and helped me to discover a strength I didn't know I had before. I can't control a lot o...

Congratulations on your first "year on habit" and thank you for sharing this thoughtful update! I particularly loved this bit: No-S has done wonderful things for my mindset around eating and helped me to discover a strength I didn't know I had before. I can't control a lot of things in life, but I c...

Great suggestions... my only reservation is the screen real estate the existing stickies already take up. But maybe I can come up with a creative solution for that... For example, maybe a "sticky of stickies?" for help with the different specific esses? (a sticky note linking to non-stick treads for...

Welcome back, losingforgood! I remember you very fondly.

Sounds like you're off to an excellent restart.

Reinhard

Wow. That's horrific. I don't even know where to start. There are no meals anymore, only snacks. "People are snacking more and more, sometimes instead of meals, sometimes with meals, and sometimes in between meals," said Marcel Nahm, who heads North American snacks for Hershey. He said Hershey's res...

Whenever I read this I'm reminded of Winston in 1984 when he (and everyone else) are forced to perform their daily calisthenics!

And perhaps by extension the iconic apple 1984 ad where the heroine hurls a sledgehammer into the big brother screen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g

So this is actually interesting. Thanks to my new, ridiculously short commute (2 blocks), I'm down ~2000 steps a day on average, from 9k+ to 7K+. (Note that I'm just using the iphone, which I don't always have on me, so this is an undercount, though on average a pretty consistent one). Minus 2000 st...

Shovelglove got a lot of attention thanks to that Stumptuous article (she did a couple, actually). I'm still very grateful for it! I took my 8 year-old daughter through all the moves yesterday. It was fun, and she's strong for her age, but I may have to find something a bit lighter than the 8-pounde...

It's funny how popular the "off day" or "cheat day" concept has become... It certainly wasn't back when No-S was conceived. I'm not sure if this is progress or a perversion... (well, "off" is better than "cheat.") I still think S-days are a much saner, safer, more and ultimately more satisfying expr...

Interesting... thanks!

Reminder both that there's abundant precedent for breaks between eating, and that the breaks No-S requires are nothing compared to these.

Reinhard

"My weight remains within the normal range, I am at peace with food, and NoS gives me the framework of sanity I need to live life without having to give food more attention than it deserves" -- so writes elegantportions, in her 2nd year No-S testimonial. She's 25 pounds down, at a normal BMI, and th...

Congratulations, elegantportions! This is great news all around. Watch it with the baby lifting, though -- it's far more dangerous than shovelglove, I've found. :-) I'm so impressed at your patient,, effective self-observation -- and delighted that No-s could provide a framework for it. Best to you ...

A few months ago I discovered that my phone had been counting steps for me for about a year without my knowledge. A touch disconcerting and big-brotherish, but also (briefly) fascinating. I was comfortably in the 10K a day range (9545 average for the last year according to my check just now, if you ...

Thank you for your interest, Merry! They do exist, well tucked away on the site... https://everydaysystems.com/chainofselfcommand/ And a more recent example here: https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=42 BUT I have been continually refining them, and will post some more up to date image...

Belated congratulations, Manishavyas, and thanks for letting us hear from you again! Great to hear you're making steady progress despite stress induced red days.

Reinhard

Thanks all! I think I'm feeling like this won't be too too hard to take to the next level. I'll go ahead and get my hands on a semi-decent mic... I stuck these recordings together using garageband, which wasn't quite as intuitive as I'd hoped. I'll give audacity a spin as well. I'll mark up the book...

Thanks, RAWCOOKIE! Good to hear you think it's basically OK. In my procrastination at doing this, it seems consumer technology has come a long way... With my typical lack of preparation, I was surprised by the "see page..."s and just went ahead and read them. I think I could skip reading the section...

Are my low podcast production values good enough to produce an audiobook? You be the judge! For this episode, an experimental reading of Chapter 1 of the No S Diet book. Let me know if a few tweaks here and there might do the trick, or if I had better rethink this whole project. https://everydaysyst...

Wow, those are some impressive numbers to go with those pictures! (-91.2 pounds!) And I see you've been on the board for 9 years now -- so also a champion by my very favorite metric! Many congratulations and thank you for sharing your accomplishment with us here! I hope others spend some time checki...

Please join me in congratulating Joasia, who has just reported some very impressive accomplishments in the "before and during" forum: 9 years on habit, over 90 pounds down, and compelling photographic evidence!

https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10770

Now the durings:

Very impressive Joasia! Happy we were able to figure this out together.

Please tell us the story behind these pictures!

OK, here goes!

First, the befores:

....

Welcome! I am a big fan of French toast myself. I like to make it with a little lime juice.

Reinhard

Giada,

Sorry for the long delay -- this was a tougher call, because other posts by this user looked normal. And so I backed off and then promptly forgot. I think I'm going to spare it for now.

Anyway, thanks for the report, and please don't hesitate to keep them coming!

Reinhard

joasia,

Do you want to just email me the pictures? I'm happy to post them.

reinhard.engels@gmail.com

Another option is to use a photo sharing site like flickr or something and post the links here (the img button in the message editor will display them inline if you provide an image url).

Reinhard

Welcome back! I remember you and Hellboy fondly.

Sounds like you had some very compelling excuses!

In any case, glad to hear you're back in action and welcome back to the board.

Reinhard

I don't this there's a direct way to do it at the moment (the "img" button wants a url to an image, it doens't prompt for upload). It's possible that if I upgrade the bulletin board system to phpbb3 uploads will be supported, but last time I tried that it broke habitcal so I'm not sure how immanent ...

Thanks for the thoughtful responses, Noel, Rawcookie! I enjoyed reading your comparison of flylady vs. Kondo, Noel. From: http://noelfigart.com/blog/2015/06/15/konmari-v-flylady/ Understand clearly why you are decluttering I love this. It’s something that really gets missed. The assumption is that e...

I like "temptation bundling..."

Great name, too.

It's a little like a special case of what I talked about in the "compound and atomic tasking" podcast episode way back.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=25

Reinhard

Sorry, not that I'm aware of -- and though I'm normally a very talented sleeper, I've been through extended periods when I really could have used one. I'm a big fan of audiobook to sleep as well (sleep timer is brilliant), and it works great under "everyday" circumstances, but if I'm sufficiently st...

I managed to squeeze out one more episode in 2015 -- not bad by my recent (very low) standard.

It's part review of Marie Kondo's Tidiness book, part re-consideration of the role of discrete, decisive actions in the realm of self-improvement.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=47

This issue will be newly relevant to me since I'm starting a new job that is only 2 blocks from my house (vs. my current urban ranger optimal 15-20 minutes and 5 flights of stairs).

I'll post what I discover here!

Reinhard

Hey, thanks for the update and congratulations on your successful perseverance in working your way back up! I'm struggling with something much less severe at the moment, but probably the first injury I've had since I started shugging that has actually significantly affected my routine. I've self-dia...

Blithe -- thanks for articulating this so well! I too run a bit, primarily because I enjoy it (and despite the fact that I can't seem to to it consistently without injuring myself), rather than for fitness, which I've found is addressed quite adequately by shovelglove and urban ranger. The only exce...

Ironchef does it again -- another baby and another successful year on no-s!

Please join me in congratulating her all around.

https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10709
Reinhard

3 years on no-s and 2 children -- that is no mean feat!

(my youngest has just given me "golfer's elbow" from excessive "uppy")

Congratulations all around and thank you for letting us know!

Reinhard

Love this thread (and the template) -- thanks, Jibaholic! Mods: vanilla no-s. over the years I experimented with a few mods, my favorite being "no solitary snacking" but even that I haven't found necessary so I stopped. Intelligent Dietary Defaults: still doing optimized oatmeal, have downsized defa...

I think the hardest thing about No-S probably isn't the idea of three meals a day and no snacks. It's that pleasure has a real and legitimate place. So true! (and beautifully put). This too: I being to suspect that most people who struggle with excessive S-days still feel in the backs of their mind...

Hi all,

Just pushed out a second episode after my last long hiatus:

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=46

Please let me know what resonated/what didn't/what else you'd like me to do future episodes about. Think the next one will be on the "kondo" method.

Reinhard

Thanks for the feedback, Noel!

I've already got the next podcast recorded (not about Konmari) but I'll queue that up to do next...

Reinhard

Nice "testimonial" posted to the facebook group that I thought I'd share with you old school bulletin boarders: From: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nosdiet?_rdr=p I started No S 2 years and 4 months ago. Today, I hit the 10-pound weight loss mark. VERY slow, but sure! I was 50 years old when I sta...

Not much of an episode, but hope it'll get me back into the swing of podcasting:

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=45

Welcome, Nothn4me!

I like your prudent, gradual approach. It bodes well for your No-S future!

Reinhard

Not sure if I count, but I'm still practicing it. It's made a huge difference in my life. I have had days over the more than a decade I've been following this when I broke through the ceiling, but they've been rare, and keep getting rarer, and even then I wind up drinking far less than formerly (I r...

GraceW almost forgot to post her 4 year No S Diet testimonial -- not because it hasn't made a big difference in her life, but because it's been so successful, she has a hard time remembering she's even on it. "I don't check into this forum much anymore, but I consider that a testimonial to how natur...

Congratulations, GraceW! I especially appreciate hearing from people like you who we almost miss hearing from -- because they are so successfully entrenched in good habits that it doesn't seem like a big deal to them anymore (love that Brian Wansink quote -- very true). Thank you for somehow getting...

Sure sounds like it from this interview with USA today: "My rule is no snacks, no sweets, no seconds."

http://www.usatoday.com/…/rick-warren-t ... …/3758017/

I just hope someone gets him the message about S-days...

(Thanks Haim for bringing this to my attention!)

That's actually quite normal for a first shovelglove session, HappyHiker! It's easy to underestimate how hard a workout it is.

Hope you feel less sore soon and best wishes easing into it,

Reinhard

Thanks x2, osoniye, got em both.

Congratulations, manuelasmom! (and bittesehr!)

Welcome to the group, Oren, and thanks for sharing your story here. I'm always fascinated by how people stumble upon shovelglove... And how well the economics work out vs. other options. I like your trick of using socks instead of a sweater. Probably retains it's shape better, aesthetically, and is ...

Ffwl reports losing 20 pounds over 2 years on No-S (without sacrificing "supper!"):

https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10654

Thank you! Got him.

Congratulations! Slow and steady successes like this make me very happy.

Nice also to see how well No-S can be adapted for "localization!"

Best,

Reinhard

OK, I think I got rid of the mixed content messages in habitcal, but there are a bunch lurking around in other corners of the everydaysystems site. I'll keep hunting them down but always feel free to let me know when you bump into this or anything else that looks peculiar.

Thank you, Greg, for the kind words!

I'll check out HabitBull.

Sorry about the mixed content messages -- japorito and crossthebreeze, I didn't notice them because chrome just silently suppresses those messages. Should be a quick fix...

Reinhard

Good to know! Thanks. While I was fixing the slowness issue I did a bit of rejiggering that I guess might have helped the emails withstand spam filters a little better.

Reinhard

I fixed the posting slowness (slowness had to do with emails -- posts that didn't trigger an email were fine, posts that did took a solid minute just to send the email).

Potential new problem: is anyone actually getting these emails?

Reinhard

I will create a new user and post to this and see if it is slow.

This is reliably quick.

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