Everyday Systems

day 183

Sleep: 5 hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight routine.

day 184

Sleep: 7? hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

day 185

Sleep: 4.5 hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight video.

day 186

Sleep: 4.5 hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

day 187

Sleep: ? hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: none

day 188

Sleep: ? hours, quite rested.

Exercise: none.

day 189

Sleep: 6 hours, quite rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight routine.

day 190

Sleep: 6 hours, quite rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

If I may ask, what bodyweight video do you do? Does it vary? tx

Hi Oolala.

The videos keep changing, as I mean to curate a collection of those I like.

I can't think of a convenient way of posting my bookmarks.

If you don't mind, I'll drop in later to link to a few.

Since it's handy, here's today's, which I found very good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Z9iWe ... 6i&index=1

It is yoga-inspired, but modified to emphasize bodyweight strength work.
It has 4 or so exercises, repeated in 4 or so sets.
It's strenuous, but the number of sets, after all, is up to the user.
Includes token warm-up and cool-down, which I'd seek to boost some.
No music.
Needless to say, it's all personal.

Have fun.
Good luck on your journey, Oolala.

That's a good looking workout based on the Sun Salutation. Looks it might help my flexibility issues. I may give it a try occasionally instead of the Five Tibetan Rites which I've been doing. My attention span gets bored on the same routines. Thanks Jackn.

Hi whoson.

In my opinion, this workout is about strength rather than flexibility.
Though it is yoga-inspired, I'd say yoga it's not.
I'd personally go for yoga proper if flexibility is what you're aiming at.
My two cents'.

The Tibetan Five Rites...
Never heard of them.
Looked them up.
Promising - might use them at night, when I'm tired as a go-to-bed ritual.
Don't know, need to study.

Thanx for sharing.

Hi again, Oolala.

Hoping that others, too, might be interested, I ended up posting a list of fave bodyweight workouts on the general forum, rather than here: https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopi ... 047#174047.

Hope it's alright by you.

Hope the sleep clinique has been profitable.

day 191

Sleep: ? hours, not rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight video.

day 192

Sleep: 5 hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

day 193

Sleep: ? hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: 3 sets of Fortunately 500 bodyweight workout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjEuI9DLZk4.

day 194

Sleep: ? hours, quite rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

Thanks for the links. I have some moves I do (intermittently) cobbled from various workouts. Sometimes I'll put a video on and still do my own thing, but the video will keep me moving. And I sometimes find new moves I add in, or even videos I follow. But I'm not very consistent. I guess I believe I will somehow be the exception on the value of consistent movement. (Denial plays a darn big role in adopting- or NOT adopting-beneficial eating and exercise routines. I'm in it now!)

Gave me a chuckle.

day 195

Sleep: 5.5? hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight routine.

day 196

Sleep: 6? hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

day 197

Sleep: 6 hours, quite rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight video.

day 198

Sleep: 4? hours, not rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

day 199

Sleep: 4? hours, not rested.

Exercise: none.

day 200

Sleep: 5? hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight video.

day 201

Sleep: 5 hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: none.

day 202

Sleep: ? hours, quite rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight routine.

I admit I have not kept up with your whole thread, but was intrigued about your having kept track of the day number. Just for the heck of it, I went back to the first page and browsed a bit. I found an entry that said you binged on one of the first S days, I think, and that meant it didn't go well.

I wonder now what you think of that estimation. Does it really matter now? Is it possible that it actually went very well, that it was absolutely right on track?

You may have even said so in a later post I missed.

Do you mind repeating, if you've said it already, where in France you are? Do I have that right? Or of course, you can prefer not to say.

If you are where I think you are, you are heading into night. Enjoy the rest of the day, and have a good week.

day 203

Sleep: 6 hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

Hi Oolala.

I live in Lyon.

I don't practice NoS.
I did learn a big thing from it, and it's stable - no snacks, only meals.

I've been on intermittent fasting for three weeks now.
I was on it for months at some phase in the past, and for some reason stopped.
I like it a great deal.
I practice no breakfast 18:6, namely eating two meals between noon and 6.

Will report in greater detail at some point.

What's up with your food life?

oh, im practicing IF 16:8 for year and a half now... and 3 plates, not 3 meals, since i have discovered noS... even on S days, most of the times...
i plan to move to 18:6 version with 2 plates in 10 years or so, when i enter my 50s... and my metabolism slows down even further...

i have found it to be a great way to give my digestive system some rest and put some order in eating habits... it cleared out my night snacking... that part was a bit challenging in the first couple (or 3-4) of months on IF, but also the most beneficial...
and since quite some time i can say that i dont even think about IF as a "thing" any more (something like being a vegetarian for 21 years now, no brainer)... it is such an easy and beneficital habit, i find...
im curious how it is working for you...

So you allow for seconds and sweets at the two meals?

My food life is rather erratic these days, though I still feel basically "married" to No S. We're just having a rocky time. I think it will take until sometime into the new year to have a long term pattern for the future emerge. I see some form of IF involved, but I actually think of that as just modified No S.

day 204

Sleep: 4.5? hours, not rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight video.

I see, Oolala.
Good luck with your practice.
Thanx for sharing.

I don't think of it in terms of 'seconds and sweets'.
Please bear with me.
I eat whatever I please at any meal, with whole foods making up the exclusive make-up of the vast majority of meals.
But tomorrow, I'm contemplating bread and cake for lunch, because I feel like it.

I eat to satisfaction, and often beyond.
I hope to learn to stop at satisfaction.
In addition, the q of how much doesn't really arise, as the IF'ing, by and large, is both satisfying and pleasurable, and getting more so with time.

Thanx for sharing, Kaali.
I agree with every word.

Good luck.

Your mod sounds very habit-friendly and relaxed. Fits the zeitgeist of No S, if not the canonical rules, not that that matters.

day 205

Sleep: ? hours, not rested.

Binge at lunch.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

jackn - I didn't realize that this was how you approached your meals. It's very similar to how I modify NoS, and the main reason for my success! So I wish the same for you. I admire your diligence in tracking things, and the informative simplicity of your updates. Keep up the great work!

day 206

Sleep: ? hours, quite rested.

Exercise: evening yoga class.

day 207

Sleep: 6.5 hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight video.

day 208

Sleep: 6.5 hours, so-so rested.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

day 209

Sleep: 6.5 hours, well-rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight routine.
Morning jog.

day 209

Sleep: 6.5? hours, so-so rested.

Snacking before dinner.
At dinner, exceeded pre-set, usual limits.

Exercise: morning yoga video.

day 210

Sleep: ? hours, not rested.

At dinner, exceeded pre-set, usual limits.

Exercise: morning yoga video.
A morning walk in town.

day 211

Sleep: 6.5 hours, quite rested.

Exercise: morning dumbbell video.

day 212

Sleep: 6-6.5 hours, quite rested.

At dinner, exceeded pre-set, usual limits.

Exercise: An afternoon walk in town.
Evening yoga class.

day 213

Sleep: ? hours, quite rested.

Exercise: morning bodyweight-dumbbell video.

how are you doing, jackn?

OK, Kaali, thank you.

I've been posting elsewhere.

Hope all's well with you and good luck.

glad to hear you are OK!

Miss ya. Is it something we'd be interested in? Or maybe you want privacy...

Not sure when the holiday "eating" season starts in France, but warmest wishes for a delicious moderate one!