Everyday Systems

The concept of multitasking is a marketing ploy
to make the fact that you’re too damn busy
sound like a good thing.

Extreme obesity is defined as having a body-mass index (BMI) of 40 or greater.
BMI is a statistical measure of whether a person is normal, overweight or obese
based on whether weight and height are in proportion

For those who don't know:

At my highest weight of 271,
I had a BMI of 53.
My current BMI is 22.5
And....I didn't grow taller....

Becoming the person you want to be

Take a look at your priorities and your goals.
Where did they come from?

Are they the products of soul-searching, self-analysis, and careful planning?
Or are they a reaction to pressures from other people?
Did you find them within yourself or within the pages of a magazine?

The answers to these questions are important
because they tell you if the person you're becoming
is someone you want to be.
Here's another way to look at a goal:
do you want it, or do you just think you should want it?

It's not easy to follow your own direction in life.
But it's more possible than you may think.

Question everything.
Every priority in your life needs to justify why it's there.
If you can't come up with a good reason
that actually comes from YOU, maybe it doesn't belong.

To be nobody but yourself
--in a world which is doing its best, night and day,
to make you everybody else—

means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.

...........................EE Cummings, poet

TexArk wrote:I thought you might want to add this to your file if you have not run across it already.
It is an analogy explaining the First Law of Thermodynamics
as it applies to calories in/calories out using a broken toilet.

http://sparkofreason.blogspot.com/2011/ ... ilets.html

BrightAngel wrote:
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My new website, DietHobby.com is now up.
...

TexArk wrote:I did visit your site and left 2 comments on the online friends post.
After your pm I checked it again and I can read my comments
so I am not sure what you are seeing.
It looks like it is going to be fun.

Thanks TexArk,
I see your comments under "Imaginary Friends", and
I see on a different page, a couple of other people commented,
and I can see those names.

Before I replied to your comments I saw they had no name by the date
(your name is supposed to automatically go there),
and THEN when I replied, MY NAME went on your comments.
So there's definitely some kind of glitch there, and hopefully I can get that fixed today.

So for the next few days, I hope pople will just ignore the rule about no signatures,
and give me their name inside their comment.

connorcream wrote:I think I posted in the book section as my comments were relevant to that sectioons.
I will go back and look for imaginary friends, I want to join that area as well.
It will be later today.

As with all technical things, some glitches don't show up prior to use,
so we are still working out some problems with registration and log-in,
which is supposed to be required before making comments. (to avoid spammers etc)

What is supposed to happen, is people can read my site without
registering or logging in,
however, before they can participate by making comments,
they must register...Registering is meant to be easy, and
no data gets saved or published or sold etc.

After people fill out the short registration form, they are supposed
to return to their e-mail and click the link the web-site sends them.
As soon as they do that, they are registered, and from them on
all they have to do is log in.
When someone registers, the site automatically sends an e-mail to me,
telling me that I have a new registration and who it is.
My web-designer (son) absolutely insists on using an e-mail address
instead of a user name to log in,
...and I think that is mainly because so many people forget their user names
and designing the whole system to fix that is an extra hassle for the web-designer,
and the site-owner (who is me).
That e-mail address is totally confidential and no one will ever send
you anything, including me, without special permission.

You can log on or off while you're on the site,
but when you leave you are automatically logged off,
and will need to relog each time you return and want to make a new comment.
I'm not sure of the technical reasons for this, but that's the way
my son says it must be.

So, it will be helpful to me to have my online friends
register/log-in/and make comments
as soon as possible, because that is the way we will discover the "glitches".
Please let me know about any difficulties so I can get them fixed.

My HOME link is where all my blogs reside,
including copies of the
Why We Get Fat chapter summaries.
So the first 22 blogs my the summaries of that book are there.
BUT that is a difficult way to access them.

The easy way is to use that top link entitled BOOKTALK,
which takes you right to links for all of those Chapter summaries in order,
and then it becomes easy to leave comment under each chapter.

After the WWGF chapter summary posts,
I started my regular blogging.
I believe I now have 8 blogs up, and I plan to add to them continually.
So, if you click the link, HOME, and you start reading back,
when you get to the WWGF posts, it is easier to just leave HOME
and click the link for BOOKTALK.

I wanted to make those WWWF Chapter Summaries first, and put them all together,
for easy access, because I'll be highlighting that section for the next 6 months or so.
You've already read that basic summary because I first put
it in the Thread I made here, for the discussion between me and Kathryn,
with the intention of also using it in DietHobby for a wider population.

I plan to post frequently in my ongoing blog, and also add more pictures and videos,
and recipes and links and other information.

At this point, I have no intention of putting up a forum.
That's just too much work, and there are a lot of good forums
already in existence. ..for example...THIS ONE.

connorcream wrote:Mock Pancakes These were delicious and very satisfying,
more so than the oatmeal ones, I am shocked to say.
Thank you for the recipe. I reposted it below for other people.

Thanks connorcream.
I've posted that recipe for mock pancakes on my website at
www.diethobby.com under a header link called RECIPES,
and my son's plan is to film a YouTube video of me cooking them.
It would be my very first video, so we'll see how that goes...???...

BrightAngel wrote:my son's plan is to film a YouTube video of me cooking them.

connorcream wrote:Keep those good ideas rolling:-)

TexArk wrote:Dr. Jay, --- his blog.
Be sure and check out the my story section.
He is a doctor in Canada who had type 2 diabetes himself,
put himself on a low carb diet,
works with a native peoples who have diabetes epidemic
and tried to get funding to do research, made a documentary, etc.

http://www.drjaywortman.com/blog/wordpress/

Eileen7316 wrote:Bright Angel:

I signed up for your website to leave you a comment, but I have not been validated yet!

Anyway, I watched your oatmeal pancake video. You are a natural! You seem very at ease and you have a lovely voice. I may even try those pancakes!

Good luck with your endeavor!

Thanks Eileen for those VERY kind words.
I've been eating those pancakes for years, and I love them.

Right after you fill out the registration form and click enter,
You're supposed to go to your e-mail and click the link in the message.
I understand that sometimes the diethobby automated message
will be automatically sent to your junk mail, if your filters don't allow it in,
so make sure your e-mail knows that it is okay receive messages from DietHobby.com
Then, after clicking that link you can go back and log in and post comments forever.

HOWEVER, I told my son-the-web-designer to turn off that confirm process, for right now,
since my online friends are the only ones who know about the site.
So if you've already registered, you should be able to log in
and comment even wthout clicking your e-mail link.

However, even now, it is important to make sure you can get e-mails from me(@diethobby.com)
or you won't get notices of my new blogs or my replies to your comments.
I'm so happy that you're going to be part of my adventure.

Eileen7316 wrote:Ain't that the truth!

KCCC wrote:BA,

In respone to your request for comments,
I posted a quite lengthy review of No-S on your site.
The formatting is not quite what I expected (all my paragraph spacing lost),
but I hope it makes sense.

I will probably not spend much time on your site
(life is just too full for me, and I hang out online too much already),
but I wish you luck with it!

Cheers,

KCCC

KCCC,
I saw your terrific comment on DietHobby,
and I just replied to it.
Thank you so much for giving your No S opinion there.

Also thanks for your well-wishes on my new site.
I am enjoying it a great deal....which is actually the point...
since it is totally a personal recreational project for me.
I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to spend some
of my retirement time with this pleasant task.
AND also help myself (and others) with weight-loss and maintenance.

The support of my No S forum friends has been so emotionally
helpful to me during my "start-up" process.
But certainly, I wouldn't want anyone to visit my site regularly
unless it satisfied some interest or need for them personally.

My son-the-web-designer tells me that about 90% of the people
who visit a site like mine never leave any comments,
and he has been very pleased to see
how helpful my No S friends have been by making start-up comments.
However, even if DietHobby were only a place for me to write my thoughts,
and I only had a very few visitors and no comments at all,
I would find the project worth doing..just for my own personal satisfaction.

Your post makes perfect sense even without paragraph spacing.
I agree with you about the formatting,
because it is my style to write in short lines with frequent paragraph breaks.
However, I've been shown that this is the way Blogs do Comments,
and ....go it goes...Adapt and Accept is my motto there.

Your long and terrific post is very understandable without line-breaks.
But FYI, what I've done at other places...and will be also be doing at DietHobby...
is to use..................................... or ******************* as a way
to separate out quotes or divide thoughts into sections that are sort of a "paragraph like" function.

KCCC wrote:BA - an excellent review of WWGF that I thought you'd be interested in.

http://summertomato.com/book-review-why ... ry-taubes/

Who Me? wrote:I hope your arm heals quickly and painlessly. Is it your dominant arm?

TexArk wrote:So sorry to hear about your break, but glad it is not your dominant arm. I managed to go 63 years without a broken bone and have had a spate of them the last year...all stupid accidents...need bubble wrap I guess. Hope this is your first and last!

oolala53 wrote:Haven't used all the links, but sorry to hear the old news now about your arm!
Goodness gracious! Keep on healing.

oolala53 wrote:So, do you eat just three meals a day?

KCCC wrote:So, just sending good wishes now as the cast-wearing wears on...

oolala53 wrote:I thought for sure I registered on DietHobby, but it won't let me log in. Should I start over?

oolala53,

I checked the DietHobby registration base
and there is no one there with the user name oolala,
so I'd say register again....AND right after registering,
don't forget to go to your e-mail; open the e-mail from DietHobby, and click the verification link.
I'm told that step is necessary to prove you are a real person.
If you don't get a automatic e-mail from DietHobby, check your junk mail.

Be sure to set your browser to recognize and accept DietHobby's automatic emails,
so you can get notice of new Blogs and responses to your comments.

I look forward to reading your future comments there.

Also there's a Blog with a review of the No S Diet and comments about it.
You can either find it in Archieves, or via a search, and can still add your own comments if you like.