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silver

you don't need motivation, you need to start walking. when you go to work, park your car far away and walk the rest, you'll have to walk it back after work too. walk to the shops. walk wherever you can. walking is NOT an exercise, it is a way how to get from "A" to "B". so all the motivation you nee...

silver

i wouldn't worry about the calories if i were you. 500 cal. a meal applies to diets that insist on eating 3 average meals and 2 small ones (or snacks) a day. but that's their rule. a normal average person needs about 2000 calories to sustain weight. if you divide it into 3 meals equally, you get abo...

silver

i think habitcall is a great thing and it opened my eyes about how often i really don't stick to the rules. i started using it to teach myself to go to bed early a while ago. i have about 50% success but before that i never got to bed before 11.30 at night. only because i didn't want too many red ma...

silver

ice cream... strawberry, raspberry or any other berry flavor. could be mixed with a bit of vanilla. oh, just thinking about it! i always have some in the freezer.

silver

breakfast: oat flakes, banana, almonds, raisins, yogurt, mixed together + half a pineapple. i love bananas and pineapples lunch big pot of my favorite Cuban soup. recipe: while boiling some potatoes and pumpkin cut into cubes, melt a bit of butter, throw in some onion, add the other vegetables when ...

silver

/rant The stupidest piece of exercise equipment wasn't my personal property. It was the rope in PE class in elementary school. . couldn't agree more. up till now i can't do it. only after college was i told that i have hypermobile joints and if i want to gain some strength i have to work much harde...

silver

same here. when i got to my ideal weight, 176 centimeters, 65 kilos, size 12 in britain (sorry i just can't bear the counting right now). not a model weight but that's when i liked myself most. i kept it for 4 months. than i came back from england to live with my mum for one more year. and she kept ...

silver

oh, and one more thing. not only that there were no supermarkets, but people bought a lot of things straight from producers. for example my grandmother sold milk, eggs, vegetables and flowers at a local marketplace. everything from her own garden and animals. and she had a lot of regular customers, ...

silver

lilly, you just made me realize one thing that never crossed my mind ever before. i'm 31 and i remember these time only because in my country they ended only in 1989. that's when we overthrew communism. before that we has only 2 types of milk, full fat and half fat. two types of yogurt, white one an...

silver

i weigh myself once a week although sometimes i forget. the less often the better. that way even if the scale doesn't move i get sad only once a week. not every day. also, it is much less likely to happen. if you do it once a week it simply has to move. and i remember that when i started exercising ...

silver

plan 4 meals. that's what i do. my working day starts at 5.30 and i go to bed before midnight. well, i try to... anyway, i have a proper breakfast (after experimenting in order to modify i found out i just have to) i have some fruit and yogurt and maybe nuts at about 11.30. that's because i have lun...

silver

i've tried lots of silly diets but the worst thing was - tablets. now that i look back on it, there might even have been something illegal in them, i don't know. i got them from a friend when i was living in england. she claimed they were for people 300lbs and more who were given them to help them l...

silver

i had a nasty knee accident on 21st of july last year. (god, i'll never forget that date) the only good thing, that helped me think positively was the fact that no operation was needed. although it was pretty close. otherwise the whole issue has been hell. including the idiot doctor i had for the fi...

silver

last week thursday i was at my student's house giving a private lesson in the evening and his mother made some pancakes. she try to offer them to me and i said NO and i was so surprised how easy that was. also, the same day, and it was a very busy day, i didn't have much time for lunch so i just got...

silver

i used to have exactly the same problem. and i do mean exactly, even the times (11 and 3p.m.) are the same. so i tried a bit of experimenting. i tried eating 4 meals. proper breakfast. smaller dinner and in between proper lunch and a snack of some fruit and a yogurt (that was supposed to be half of ...

silver

the only time i ever drunk soda every day was when i was in the u.s. 4 months in summer 2003. and that was the only time when i put on weight in summer. you see, me and my mother loose 3-4 kilos every summer and gain it back every winter. spontaneously, without any diet. in summer of 2003 i put on 5...

silver

yes, i totally forgot how much thinking it used to take to decide whether to eat or not to eat something. in the end i always got fed up with arguing with myself and i just ate the damn whatever. no-s taught me to be strict. in a good way. so now if i have to think about it, if i have to make decisi...

silver

i learned that small plates aren't as small as they appear. and if you fill them up twice just because the first one isn't satysfying enough, you eat too much but you can't see it. i actually tried to "measure" what you can put on one plate. just out of curiousity. did you know that you can fit the ...

silver

i've talked about it here somewhere and maybe even more than once, but i feel like doing it again... i've stopped smoking more that one year ago using the same technique. not thinking long term, just managing day after day. but about the diet. now i'm using the same thing when it comes to that. i ju...

silver

So, I'm being strict today and this week. be strict, but not more that any other n-day before. just have totally normal and ordinary n-days, not n-days minus something. this isn't really a diet. it's a lifestyle. no failure should ever be punished ever again! that's why this thing works! because yo...

silver

1, the three meals a day-make them proper. fill up your plate as much as you wish. and make sure it's something you enjoy even if it's fattening. so what! 2, make your s-days count. choose something you can really look forward to, and always, when you feel like breaking the rules, remind yourself of...

silver

i've stopped weighing myself too. i just do it once a week or once in two weeks. sometimes i go a month without even remembering to check my weight. same reason as you. and i have to say, that it works better for me. before i always got depressed too. and i ate afterwards thinking: oh well, i'm not ...

silver

you can burn more calories doing nothing. if you get some muscles first

i think we all know that muscles burn more energy. here is how it works, and how much more it could be.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/calrmr.htm

silver

I dunno. I used to live with a roommate who was very overweight - in the "obese" category. She was of normal weight until the year when she ended up working both a day job and a night job - and getting about 10 hours of sleep a week. That year, she gained 70 lbs. without changing anything in her die...

silver

i quite liked the idea of some other way to make it special. other than food. however, when i started to think about it, i found out i couldn't think of anything. (un)fortunatelly, i'm a very happy person who hates shopping, and i have everything i need. not that i'm so rich, it's just that i don't ...

silver

it's not common. i'm from a small country in europe, not even 6 million people here and i think we have only one of those in the whole country. then again, i have only seen 3 people who might 'need" it in my whole life here. we don't really need it. when i was in the u.s. i was shocked by how big pe...

silver

my schedule is very similar to yours. i have breakfast 6.30, lunch at around two and dinner time is at about 7p.m. for me. so i simply divided dinner into dinner and 11o'clock meal. the best approach was to have some fruit and a yogurt at 11a.m. and make my dinner a bit smaller than a whole plate. a...

silver

next tuesday it'll be 365th day without a cigarette for me. that's a whole year! i think it should be a special day for me. one year of freedom. i was considering making it an s-day, but quite frankly i think too many s-days could help me loose a bit of discipline. i don't know how big that bit woul...

silver

see, there's diabetes in my family too. perhaps that's the reason. that's why i'd like a second, third, fourth.... opinion. nevertheless you've got a point there

silver

i've noticed quite an interesting thing. the later in a day i eat something sweet, the less i have to fight cravings of any kind during that day. something sweet meaning sugar in my morning tea, yogurt (i don't like sugar free or low sugar anything except chewing gums), fruit juice, simply anything ...

silver

This is just my two cents worth, but I think part of the problem might be looking at No-S as a "diet" (in terms of program to lose weight) rather than a "diet" that is a way to eat or to approach food and eating for life. The other thing that for me is problematic is looking at your days as success...

silver

same thing happened to me. i started in june. started failing after having an accident and injuring my knee badly. i couln'd go jogging anymore. i love jogging so i got depressed. by the beginning of october it was really bad. not as bad as ever before but it certainly didn't look like no diet. i st...

silver

i also get this water retention. that just a few more days near the bathroom :). and before my period i go through a few days of constipation and the water also helps that. just don't forget to literally CARRY that bottle. try not to put it down unless you really have to. if there is something in yo...

silver

i have had the same problem from the day one 16 years ago. it was very difficult . the only recipe i have is: i carry a bottle of water with me at all times. keep drinking constantly. and i keep my mouth occupied that way. it doesn't work 100%. it's about 70%, which is quite good, i think. the only ...

silver

oh sorry i just accidentally sent it so many times!!!

sorry i'm a blonde

silver

my mother is a cook. she has a colleague who doesn't eat breakfast and eats only from small plates because she wants to loose weight. the problem is that she fills up and eats up that plate five times, while my mom does it only once. with a normal size plate, of course. my mom is half her size and t...

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i can walk again!

Re: Re-training...

you can burn more calories just breathing

sorry, correction: should i make next tuesday my s-day?

sugar in the morning different from sugar in the evening

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