Everyday Systems

Yes, raindropz qualifies. Got him. Thank you, ironchef!

Got him. Thank you!

Hi Deb, Sorry for the way delayed response! I've been doing OK following my systems -- I just don't have the bandwidth anymore for actually tracking them. Have no worries, my compliance with all the systems I was reporting on here remains high. I do do a low tech compliance monitoring on my daily ca...

I'm deeply gratified you like them! Thank you for letting me know. I'd love to do more episodes, it's just felt impossible lately between the kids and the dayjob. But maybe this encouragement will inspire me.

Reinhard

Thanks for checking in!

Sorry about the lack of magical back protection properties...

And about the tough time with your family.

But it sounds like you're coming back strong on the shovelglove & friends front.

Best of luck and keep us posted,

Reinhard

Vicki, Congratulations on another successful year! Once again, I can't tell you how happy these "more of the same" testimonials make me. Though of course, as you point out, it's not quite "more of the same." I love how you've layered some gentle "systematic mindfulness" on top of the vanilla No-S ru...

Vicki is now 6 years into practicing No-S. She's down "55+lb, happily maintaining and still loving it!" In particular, she values its "simple, livable structure without too much structure." She's now in her mid-50s, and that brings new challenges, but with No-S she's successfully meeting them. Pleas...

Welcome, Steve!

Thank you, Deb, Vicki!

I'm definitely enjoying my esses today.

Reinhard

Thanks, germanherman! Got em.

"I love No S for the peace of mind" writes tlingit in her first yearly checkin. She's down 10-12 pounds, but far more importantly, No-S helped her preserve a sense of stability through some very difficult times. No S is the opposite of the "emotional eating" so many of us do when things get tough. I...

Der tlingit, Sad as I am to hear you had to face them, I am so gratified that No S helped you get through the tough times you describe. Losing pounds is one thing, but keeping your sanity through such trails is on another level entirely. To be actually able to enjoy food, to enjoy anything, in a rea...

Got him! Thanks!

Congratulations on your continued success!

It's really fantastic that you're maintaining such a significant loss without having to resort to unsustainable behaviors.

Best of luck going forward and please continue to keep us updated!

Reinhard

Congratulations on your no-s and other new habits! And apologies it took me so long to pop in here -- was on vacation last week with minimal connectivity (a blessing!). I love the detailed analysis of special difficulties you're facing and tips and tricks you've been using, along with other habit sy...

Got em! Thanks osoniye, germanherman.

Welcome back! Yes, it is gratifying how many older timers are still posting here.

I make an exception for medicine that tastes sweet and this might be considered such.

But you might feel "cleaner" if you got your vitamin c in less candy-like form (it is possible!).

Either way, this is a classic borderline substance that you shouldn't fret over too much.

Reinhard

Belated congratulations to your mom!

Congratulations! Fantastic progress.

Numbers are great but there's nothing like actually being able to see the difference!

Reinhard

Congratulations! "Years on habit" is my favorite success metric. Great to hear vanilla is still doing the trick for you as well.

Thank you! Blasted them.

Belated congratulations, elegantportions! -10% is testimonial worthy! Thanks for the interesting notes on your bite counting experiment. Clearly it's worked very well for herbsgirl, but as you've experienced, it does come at a cost in attention. Plates are about the only thing I can be bothered to c...

Welcome, Belle!

Your husband's fourth, four letter S is amusing -- but you are right to take GermanHerman's cautions to heart.

The cure for diet head is diet habit -- and diet habit must be simple and clear, a "good enough" that your whole body can grok vs. the intellectually perfect.

Reinhard

Amen to that. It's one thing for Aristotle to say "appetite is the best sauce," but in this case, I think Julia Child is even the greater authority.

Sure -- I find paleo a bit excessive (do we really need to rewind tens of thousands of years to get fit and thin? I think 3-4 decades would suffice), but it's certainly compatible with No-s.

You are very welcome!

Though I am sorry you don't want to be my lackey -- I always wanted a lackey!

Best of luck and feel free to pop by whenever to let us know how you're doing,

Reinhard

That sounds like about the right amount of time!

Hope things are going well -- let us know!

...and in the meantime we have three more testimonials to report here: #1. What if No-S "stops working?" DaveMC has just completed 5 years successfully adhering to No S. For the first four years, he lost or maintained. This last year he gained back some of his lost weight. His reaction? Well, read i...

Congrutulations, eam531, on a solid start and thank you for posting here! Apologies it took me so long to drop by, I started a new job last month and have been even more distracted than usual.

Got him! Thank you!

Congratulations and thank you for letting us know!

The numbers are great, but even more encouraging is how solidly in place your habits are!

Very impressive!

Reinhard

Welcome back! "Hunger" is a great deceiver... very useful in the semi-starvation situations our ancestors faced, rather the opposite in our age of superabundance. Perhaps relevant snippet from the No S Diet book: Isnâ€™t It Better to Eat When Iâ€™m Hungry? You often hear formulas like â€œEat only wh...

Yes, they exhaust your already limited willpower BUT occasionally their sharp little eyes help keep you on the straight and narrow. Case in point: normally I drink my coffee black, but when it's hot, and iced coffee feels more appropriate, I drink it with milk and sugar. The way I make it is to firs...

Congratulations, eschano! Sounds like a great year on many fronts! And I love the new systems! You're so right about the dangers of perfectionism. I think one reason no-s is a helpful tool against it is that it actually conscripts it against itself. No S is moderate, but not wishy-washy, and the per...

Dave,

Congratulations on another year on habit and thank you for your honest reporting!

I'm confident, given your track record and practical, optimistic approach that you'll figure out whatever tweaks you need to make going forward.

Reinhard

dgrant is legit, though -- habitcal mobile seems to be misbehaving again.

Got him! Thank you, MerryKat!

Got him. Thanks!

Great to see you here again, Deb! And congratulations to Richie! I work at Harvard now (formerly in the library, now in distance ed) so maybe we'll bump into each other. I am sorry about the bad habits having come back... Please let us know if there's anything we can do to support you this go. You'v...

Here are some ideas: 1. Make a habitcal to track "in bed by 10pm" (or whatever your target time is) 2. Set the alarm earlier so you know you need to get to bed on time to wake up earlier. Set an additional habitcal for "get up by 6am" or whatever your target time is. I think these two things really ...

It's more than OK. It's something I explicitly encourage!

See

http://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=38

Best of luck and please keep us posted with details,

Reinhard

Thanks, earl7z! Got him.

Huh.. haven't run into this, somewhat surprisingly given the length of time I've been shugging. Though my current long-time hammer has a fiberglass handle and I guess that might account for it. Glad you found a fix though, and thanks for posting it here! May come in handy for me as well sooner or la...

Nice mod!

I'm not in a work environment where it would be practicable, but if you are, great way to carve out the time unobtrusively plus it deals with that whole sitting still kills you issue.

Reinhard

No news is good news? Well, almost. If you're successfully maintaining on No S, no news is the best news there is -- though I do very much like to hear about it! Please join me in congratulating NoSRocks, who recently posted her second year of "no news," maintaining a 40 pound loss. http://everydays...

Belated congratulations! I'm so sorry I didn't see this till now -- I somehow lost visual track in the recent flurry of congratulatory posts in the testimonials forum. As you know, nothing makes me happier than "more of the same" posts from successful multi-year no-essers so please accept my hearty ...

Got them both and tweaked the registration spam filter. Thanks again!

Wow, very impressive!

Reminds me that I'm overdue posting my own recent durings...

Reinhard

This is great (well, horrible in terms of what people are doing to themselves, but great in terms of validating no-s) -- thank you greatpumpkin1!

Reinhard

Got him! Thanks, Anra, Graham.

Belated congratulations on your success so far and thanks for sharing your routine!

Hi Graham,

You're right -- they are awful. I'll swap them out for amazon ads I can control. I guess I have a mental ad blocker because I've ceased even noticing them.

Reinhard

Do you have to follow No-S perfectly to see results? Not necessarily. "Hit or miss" compliance lost Ffwl 14 pounds so far. Not bad for a 5'2" "not very active middle-aged woman!"

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10009

Congratulations, Ffwl! And thanks for sharing. It's great to see how effective even imperfect compliance with No-S can be. I like your distinction between F-(east) days and ordinary S-days. It's like that "capital" vs. "lowercase" S days mod that's been tossed around for a while now -- great to hear...

Newton and Leibniz independently invented calculus, and every once in a while someone independently discovers No-s (more or less). But not everyone who does this achieves meeshofalltrades' stunning results (down ~37 pounds, sustaining 2 years now, compelling before-and-durings). http://everydaysyste...

Wow! Congratulations and thanks for posting! Really impressive. (Love the snarl of triumph in your last picture!)

I love it when people independently discover no-s or something next door to it. Would you mind sharing the details of how your version differs, how you came up with it, etc.?

Reinhard

Thanks all! Got goldbuy02 and a similar spambot.

Reinhard

Welcome back, Bennedicta -- and I'm hopefully the white-knuckled teeth-gritting period will be short. It's hard to say when, and it varies from person to person, but habit will start to kick in and take over if you keep at it. Another consolation, as someone who loves food, is that you'll actually e...

Congratulations!

Well, at least this one had a sense of humor! Haven't seen a jokebot before...

Reminds me of "funny once" in Heinlein's the Moon is a Harsh Mistress...

(funny three times gets you deleted here

)

Thanks again!

Reinhard

Hi Sonya, There is and a do! (a little) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/everydaysyste-20 You can then shop as you would normally. There's no extra charge and I get a tiny cut (and it does add up after a while -- so far it covers my web site hosting fees and a little of my LLC registr...

Thanks, nice to see the overlap!

And I like to think even the points that no-s doesn't explicitly address (balance of nutrients, less processed food) are promoted by the "spotlight" effect of having to make every plate count.

Reinhard

Attention new moms: think you have to do something crazy and extreme to lose your baby weight? "Little Lion" shows that sane and moderate No-S can do the trick just fine.

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9977

Congratulations, jw, and thank you for sharing this! I'm so happy you found No-s flexible enough to accommodate such a seemingly drastic change in your dietary needs. But most of all I'm impressed at how you weren't dissuaded from giving it a try and sticking to your guns even with so many impressiv...

Happy birthday and congratulations! That is very impressive -- nothing makes me want to attack the fridge more than extended quality time with my darling little children and of course I can't even begin to understand the added challenged presented by the physical challenges of new mom-hood. It's so ...

Thereâ€™s nothing harder in diet than maintaining a significant loss. But â€œNicest of the Damnedâ€ has done it again â€” another year at 65 pounds down (with a toddler, no less!). Check out her â€œtestimonial" for more details.

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9513

Congratulations, Nicest! "More of the same" is the best kind of news when maintaining this kind of a loss -- particularly with the added challenge of wrangling a toddler (however nice!). Thanks for letting us know!

Reinhard

herbsgirl: first off, congratulations! This is a tremendous achievement. Secondly, thanks for all the details. I hadn't actually heard of bite counting until you mentioned it in the facebook group -- but clearly it's both effective and compatible with No-S! Thirdly, thanks for the Ann Fletcher quote...

You may have been following her progress in the facebook group , but now it's official: "herbsgirl" just posted a 70+ pound loss in her testimonial, along with many fascinating details as to how she pulled this off (including video!). Please join me in congratulating her! http://everydaysystems.com/...

A lot of people seem bothered by the idea of fruits sharing a plate with savories, but honestly, even just aesthetically, it works. Keep it away from the hollandaise sauce, obviously, but for most meals it actually enhances the visual appeal (as well as the nutritional and gastronomical). And for me...

Welcome! Good luck.

Wow, thanks! I'll see if I can get to a human there.

Shocking! I guess I'll have to stop blindly trusting everything I read on the internet...

Reinhard

Good luck! Yes, focus is key. Sorry if habitcal encouraged you to spread yourself too thin.

Hi Chegent, I don't really know -- getting big wasn't the problem I was trying to solve with shovelglove. I've certainly gotten pretty strong and am reasonably content aesthetically -- but I was always "fat fat' vs. skinny fat so it's possible genetics and other factors were at play. We did have a r...

My rule is the dessert test: if it's sweet enough that I could imagine it being considered a dessert, it's an S. Context is key here; it's not about ingredients, but the meal itself. Would anyone consider a PB&J dessert? I don't think so. So it's OK in my book. A bowl full of marmalade straight up? ...

Got em!

Thanks, Graham.

plagiarism is the new kitchens

What on earth will it be next? I'm on the edge of my seat.

Remember back in the innocent early days of the internet when spam was all about porn and virility enhancements?

Reinhard

Can No S get a soldier "Army Thin?" Read magus71 inspiring account of how he used a combination of No S and kettlebells to help a soldier in his unit in Afghanistan lose 48 lbs and pass his physical fitness test. If moderate No S is powerful enough to get troops combat ready, we civilians have no bu...

"Hey, what's the secret for a flat stomach?"... "I used to be like you, in highschool"... "How can you eat so much and stay thin?"... Find out the answer to these and other mysteries in chentegt's recently posted three-year testimonial (with pictures!). http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=...

Thank you for this thoughtful, detailed post! And the generous actions behind it. Most posts here merely describe people helping themselves, and here you are using No-s to help a fellow solder (and by extension, our country). I'm also impressed and gratified to hear that no-s is useful even in what ...

Congratulations and thanks for letting us know! Nothing makes me happier than continuing multi-year success stories like this. I love the quotes from friends and acquaintances. Especially "How can you eat so much and stay thin?" because I think it's so revealing: with No-S, you seem to be eating mor...

Welcome! S-days are probably the single biggest concern and point of discussion on these boards. This is a little strange, because S-days are supposed to be the fun part, the carrot to entice you -- but human nature is a funny thing! My short answer is try not to worry about S-days. Worry about N-da...

Welcome! Glad to hear you're off to a good start.

I've been shovelgloving ~12 years now so it's definitely maintainable.

The trick is to ease in, throttle your enthusiasm, and focus on that sustainable minimum of compliance rather than heroic one-time efforts.

Reinhard

Thanks for the link!

Too bad it seems that none of the other blogs linked here are still active.

I think maintaining a blog is even harder than sticking to a diet.

Reinhard

I'm sure you'll be seeing this all over the place, but just in case: http://nyti.ms/1etXt4M Federal health authorities on Tuesday reported a stunning 43 percent drop in the obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-old children over the past decade, the first broad decline in an epidemic that often leads to l...

I'm on the tall side, but welcome anyway!

I'm glad you like it! I'd gotten a bunch of reports that people had sporadic login issues that I was never able to get to the bottom of. I'll look into adding a link -- it's easy enough technically, just there's not a lot of screen real estate.

I'm a major evernote addict -- great for recipes and much more.

https://evernote.com/

The free version gets you a lot. I upgraded more as a "thank you" than because I thought I was missing anything.

Hi snikkio, Shovelglove definitely does work the wrists, so do be careful. There are some movements that are probably more dangerous in this regard than others. I'd say the best thing would be to test the waters very carefully, no more than 7 slow reps each side with each move until you're very comf...

I hear your concern, Jethro, about a routine two being perhaps a little too much for routine, yet not quite enough for the liquid equivalent of an "S" when you really want to kick back. Glass ceiling is the system I have the most trouble with complying with perfectly, though there's no question it's...

Amanda just posted some impressive results to the new-ish No S facebook group: Reached my goal weight today! Started October 14,2013. 218.2 lbs to 149.8 lbs in 18 weeks in the dot. 68.4 lbs down. I can't figure out how to link directly to a post or if that's even possible, but if you scroll down a b...

Welcome, gwen!

I just set it back to "closed." Thanks again for pointing this out, motorin!

Hmmmm. I changed it to an "open group" because I thought that meant anyone could join without me having to approve (doesn't seem to be the case!). I didn't realize there was this visibility distinction. Wonder if I should set it back to closed...

Darn facebook, so creepy and confusing!

Reinhard

Bennedicta, If it's any comfort, I probably would have made the same call (and have done in similar circumstances). As eschano wisely states, sometimes a red is worth taking. But in the 10+ years I've been doing this, I've found this happens, very, very rarely. The real danger is letting it become a...

For the record, I'm not super crazy about FB myself but some people are really into it apparently.

And don't worry, this forum isn't going anywhere -- in fact, almost every single FB post I've made has been a link to a discussion here.

Got him! Bitcoin etc. craze gives me some new terms to add to my spam detectors...

Attention facebookers: In addition to the No S Fan page, there's also a facebook group. The group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nosdiet/ The page: https://www.facebook.com/nosdiet (The distinction is a "group" is more like a democratic bulletin board, a "page" more like a top-down blog. Took me a...

Got em. Thanks again!

I love it that "nice post!" is enough to get you deleted these days. We're pretty on top of this!

Reinahrd

MJ7910's recent testimonial, chronicling her struggles with anorexia, shows that No S can work both ways, guarding against both too much and too little -- further proof of its fundamental elegance and sanity, I like to think!

https://www.everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9865

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