Yay, BrightAngel! Another kitty-fan! We never expected to have five, but they kept finding us and we couldn't tell them no. On two separate occasions we got cats because one of the ones we already had brought a new friend over to visit and the friend never left - lol!
Thanks for the encouragement, tobiasmom! I decided to go this route when I was having so much trouble deciding rather or not to start counting weight watchers points again or not, and I finally asked myself if that's something I would do for a whole year, and I decided that I couldn't stick with it. I'm too lazy! No S is so much better because there's a lot less thinking involved, and for me, the less thinking the better.
I recently heard of the 8 Hour Diet too, wosnes.
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I hadn't until I was watching "the Fasting Twins" on youtube and they mentioned it, though, so I'm interested in checking out the clip from the Today Show. Thank you for sharing that! I tried extending my hours to 8 at one point, but it seems to be too much time for me. I limit my "eating window" to five hours, which normally just results in me skipping breakfast and having a late lunch, if you want to look at it like that.
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Which works out perfectly with No S, because the No S rules keep me from snacking, or otherwise going crazy, simply because it's in my window, and I enjoy eating two larger meals instead of three less-larger meals anyway.
And that's totally true! No S is definitely is a form of intermittent fasting - it was the first effective diet that I found that helped me to fight the late night snacking I was always so bad about giving into!
That's interesting about the Greek Orthodox church fasting ~ 1 out of every three days. Have you ever heard of Eat-Stop-Eat? The 1-out-of-every-3-days pattern reminds me of that. Basically it's a form of intermittent fasting where you eat for 24 hours, not eat for 24 hours, then repeat... so if I was going to combine that with No S it might look like:
-"NS" days on M, W, & F
-fasting (zero calorie beverages) T and Th
-"S" days for Saturday and Sunday.
I thought about doing E-S-E before, but I prefer the 19/5 ratio personally. Everybody's body is different.
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I'm going to do more googling about the mediterranean diet now!
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