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Counting carbs/calories is a drag. Obsessive scale stepping is a recipe for despair. If you want to count something, "days on habit" is a much better metric. Checking off days on a calendar would do just fine, but if you do it here you get accountability and support. Here's how. Start a new topic in this forum called (say) "Your Name Daily Check In." Then every N day post a "reply" to that topic as to whether you stayed on habit. A simple "<font color="green">SUCCESS</font>" or "<font color="red">FAILURE</font>" (or your preferred euphemism if that's too harsh) is sufficient, but obviously you're welcome to write more if you want. On S-days just register that you're taking an S-day. You don't have to do this forever, just until you're confident you've built the habit. Feel free to check in weekly or monthly or sporadically instead of daily. Feel free also to track other habits besides No-s (I'm keeping this forum under No-s because that's what the vast majority are using it for). See also my <a href="/habitcal/">HabitCal</a> tool for another more formal (and perhaps complementary) way to track habits.

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Post by oolala53 » Tue Sep 27, 2016 11:35 pm

If I may ask, what bodyweight video do you do? Does it vary? tx
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Post by jackn » Wed Sep 28, 2016 4:12 am

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.
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Post by Whosonfirst » Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:13 am

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.
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Post by jackn » Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:42 am

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.
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Post by jackn » Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:53 pm

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.

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Post by oolala53 » Sat Oct 01, 2016 2:46 pm

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!)
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Gave me a chuckle.
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Post by oolala53 » Sun Oct 09, 2016 5:29 pm

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.
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Post by jackn » Mon Oct 10, 2016 3:43 pm

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?
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Post by kaalii » Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:39 am

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...
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Post by oolala53 » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:34 am

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.
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Post by jackn » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:35 pm

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Post by jackn » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:42 pm

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.
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Post by jackn » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:44 pm

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

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Post by oolala53 » Wed Oct 12, 2016 1:26 pm

Your mod sounds very habit-friendly and relaxed. Fits the zeitgeist of No S, if not the canonical rules, not that that matters.
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Post by jackn » Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:04 am

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Binge at lunch.

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Post by LifeisaBlessing » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:56 am

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! :)
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Post by jackn » Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:35 pm

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Post by jackn » Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:28 pm

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Post by jackn » Sun Oct 16, 2016 3:45 pm

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Post by jackn » Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:24 pm

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Snacking before dinner.
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Post by jackn » Tue Oct 18, 2016 5:04 pm

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At dinner, exceeded pre-set, usual limits.

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Post by jackn » Wed Oct 19, 2016 4:40 pm

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Post by jackn » Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:02 pm

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At dinner, exceeded pre-set, usual limits.

Exercise: An afternoon walk in town.
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Post by jackn » Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:56 am

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Post by kaalii » Wed Nov 02, 2016 6:52 am

how are you doing, jackn?
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Post by jackn » Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:47 am

OK, Kaali, thank you.

I've been posting elsewhere.

Hope all's well with you and good luck.
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glad to hear you are OK! :)
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Post by oolala53 » Fri Nov 18, 2016 10:36 pm

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!
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