Everyday Systems

I recently did an "interview" (well, answered a bunch of people's questions) on the spark people no s diet group:

http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/grou ... ?gid=33739

I was surprised and delighted to see that this group was still kicking around -- fairly thriving actually. I'd heard about it a few years ago and and then nothing until last week. I encourage you to take a look not just at the interview (which is probably nothing new to people here) but the rest of the team's site as well.

Reinhard

That is so awesome! I left sparkpeople a long time ago because I was so SICK of counting calories. If there is a team following NO S, it would be worth going back just to have friends with common ground!!

I'm on that team and I can tell you we could use a few more people who are are being able to stick to the program. I, too, admire how many people there keep believing in No S even though they haven't been able to achieve even a few N days in a row. I think they know instinctively it is a sane way to live. Every team does better when there are a few successes. You do have to sign up for Sparkpeople, but it's free and they won't bug you with any email you don't ask for.

I did join, but ummm.... Can't join in with the goals. 4 days a week compliance?

My GOAL is FIVE N days a week compliance, and I wouldn't want to declare the lesser as a goal, even if failure to do the five days would have me succeeding on the four.

Yeah, I know. I am not a team leader there, so I can't declare goals. I believe many of the members have not read the book. As I said, people are struggling and I think they were hoping there would be a sense of success that members could build on if they could make it to 4 days instead of 5. But I think some people have gotten some encouragement because of a recent 3-week streak I completed. Maybe they'll amend the goals.

So, I'm not very familiar with sparkpeople, what exactly is a team and team goals?

Sparkpeople is a huge (5 million members) free diet site that tries to support healthy eating and movement and provide online tools for tracking food and exercise, as well as articles, exercise videos, and forums like this one. They don't recommend rigid limitations of foods per se, though they don't prevent members from starting their own teams devoted to any focus they want. It has tons of "teams" that can band together for hundreds of reasons. There are Biggest Loser and other favorite "diet" teams, WW teams, teams of Christian or Buddhist weight losers, people who love Yorkies, teams devoted to exercise gurus, teams of people who love swap meets, low-carbers, vegetarians, vegans, etc. I'm on an Emotional Eaters team that has over 200,000 members! ( and not many of them very happy with their progress). I'm mostly on it for their Living Binge Free team; I've turned a few people there on to No S. I also participate on the No S team out of loyalty to Reinhard. The team leaders can suggest specific goals or challenges related to the theme of their team.