Everyday Systems

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 overweight, but have been noticing something of a gut developing of late and elected to give this a go.

I don't recall ever having restricted my food intake before as I eat reasonably healthily anyway and exercise on a semi-regular basis, so this probably constitutes my first diet. Yay me.

Well, that's hello. I'd best get back to work now, I suppose...

ThomsonsPier

hello and welcome.

Welcome and Yay you!!!


Enjoy NoS!
Peace and Love,
Deb

I'm going to piggyback on your greeting and state for the record here that this is my first post.

I started the NoS Diet as of this morning (Friday, 31st March) and will be hitting my local Canadian Tire hardware store on the way home from work this evening to pick up a 12-lb sledge.

When I arrive home, the NoS Business Card is getting taped to the fridge and I will officially consider Saturday and Sunday my S days.

Monday morning, I will be setting my alarm for 5 am and the timer on my Timex Ironman watch for 14 minutes as I break into the Shovelglove routine. Also Monday morning, I will start a progression of weekly Before and During pictures to chart my progress through the NoS and Shovelglove regimens.

I am officially committed, wary, optimistic, excited, somewhat skeptical, but really above all else... totally stoked!

Starting here at just shy of 200 lb and I care more about getting into shape than counting weight loss.

Here we go...

ThomsonsPier,

Welcome!

Jump in with both feet and keep us updated!

--David

Simon,

I have found that No-S + Shovelglove is like a magic elixer once you build the habit.

Start gently with the 'glove and you will be rewarded over time!

thanks,
David

Hi Simon!
Have a great time here and good luck!!!
That is a very adorable photo of you and your little one!
Don't be skeptical.. The only time NoS and SG *don't* produce results are when one doesn't do them..
Really they are both amazing!
This year I am trying to figure out ways to include Urban Ranger (or in my case Suburban), as that is a sure fire way to increase metabolism and help lose weight...
I was about 230 when I started NoS a year and a half ago, went down to 205 and now I'm up about 4 pounds due to a few weeks of illness and total lack of activity and slipping up with the structure of the NoS rules...
I'm glad to see you here and encourage you and also Thompson to post often..
I feel it really helps keep oneself accountable...
This is one of the nicest support groups in the Universe and I have always believed these nice people are attracted to EDS because our founder Reinhard is so wonderful himself!

Looking forward to your during pics!
If I can get a digital camera anytime this year I'll be doing the same..
My personal goal is to get down to a 32 inch waist and/or a 160-170 lbs range...

Have fun up there in the Great White North!
Peace and Love,
Deb

Muchos grassy-ass for the verbal support, Deb. Rest assured I'll be coming back here often for the support AND to keep myself accountable.

On that note, methinks I'll hie mine arse over to a different thread and create a Daily Check-in for myself... at least until the habit is so well ingrained that the first thing I think of upon waking in the morning is the feel of the hickory in my hand and no more than three well-balanced meals on N days.

I hereby dub thee
"Hickory Hand of the North"!!!


Peace and Love,
Deb

Welcome, ThomsonsPier and Simon.

ThomsonsPier,

Don't knock placebo effect, it can move mountains.

Simon,

I'm very psyched to have another shugging no-esser aboard. Good idea to get started on the time/habit component before even getting the sledge -- that's the hardest part.

Looking forward to following your check-ins,

Reinhard

Reinhard,

If somebody, two months ago, had walked up to me and called me a shugging no-esser, well, I'd've smacked him in the gob and kicked him in the junk.

Now though, I'm proud of the appellation. Thanks for, you know, starting this here initiative.

*****

Deb,

I adore the title! Totally. I am sooo adding that to my signature line. Makes me feel all belong-y and stuff! You should have talked some smack to me though. You start being all nice, you're not going to get rid of me. Fair warning.

Long live Hickory Hand!!!!

Peace and Love,
Deb

ps... Love your posts, you are a pisser! LOL!!
We don't want to get rid of you!

ps... Love your posts, you are a pisser! LOL!!

Deb, I hope that means something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT to you yanks than it does in British English!

*divided by a common language*
C.

What'd I say? What'd I say????
LOL...

Well, when we say that over here in Yankee land, it means the person is very very funny, ala, so funny, you would laugh till you pee in your pants (I think that must be the derivation?)

So Carolejo, you too, are real pisser!
LOL!!!!

Write me at home and tell me what nasty thing I just called you!
LOL...

Peace and Love,
Deb

Write me at home and tell me what nasty thing I just called you!

Interesting, I've also heard it mean something different too. i had never heard it until I went up north for college. Massachusetts and north, it tends to be a term of frustration.. such as "This weather is a pisser" or "No parking? Pisser."

a pisser - somebody or something that 'Pisses you off', ie, makes you angry.

I love all this "English as a foreign language for Americans" stuff!!

C.

Well well!!!
English as a foreign language, eh??? LOL...
Aren't we getting all British on our American asses!!!
LOL...

Well, in that case
You *aren't* a pisser!
Love ya girlie!
xo!
Debny

OBP: Occasional British Pisser
FAP: Frequent American Pisser

reinhard wrote:Don't knock placebo effect, it can move mountains.

Agreed, Reinhard! I remember taking Psych 101 in college, and marvelling over the fact that when they taught the scientific method, they required experiments to account for the placebo effect so that it could be systematically ignored!

And here I was thinking how amazing it was that nearly have of the subjects were able to heal themselves using only the power of their minds!

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 the waist. Must be all that mountain air.

Ah, well, back at home (read: work) in rainy England now and eating more or less the same.

May the geese of good health honk forever at you during mealtimes.

Owen.

Welcome home...glad you're back! Cyprus sounds like a wonderful place for a vacation.