Everyday Systems

An age old question maybe...

I first learned about No S Diet after a trip to a gourmet market inside Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City. They had this amazing case of desserts and I just wanted to try everything! I didn't have a big problem with eating everything but I started thinking about the drooling over sugar response and I took to the internet to find out if there was a diet out there that concentrated on cutting out/cutting down sugar... and voila... www.nosdiet.com popped up and it's the greatest eating mantra in the world (or cyberspace).

I was reading comments on an article in Slate.com. The article was about cutting out all carbs and sugar. Reinhard himself left a comment telling people to check out the No-S diet because the way the woman in the article ate sounded too hard to maintain. So out of curiosity, I visited the site.

I found out about the No S diet a couple weeks ago at the livinlavidalowcarb.com blog (promoting an upcoming podcast interview with Reinhard). It's kind of ironic that I found about about this from a low-carb diet website...

I was at a bookstore killing time while my daughter was at girl scouts. I saw the book on a table and looked through it. I didn't buy it right then (how many unread and read diet books are already cluttering my shelves?) but looked for the website. Started no-S right away on Jan 28 and then bought and read the book. I lost 25 pounds by the end of April but since then have been going up and down within another 5-lb range depending on the kind of weekend I've had. I need to lose at least another 25 but don't have an actual weight/time goal. Just want to do no-S to wherever it takes me and not regain.

I heard about No S from the nutritionist at Calorie Count Plus where I have bee a member since Jan 08.

Love both sites.

SR

I heard about it from a CalorieCount article on sensible diets in March. They mentioned a couple others - the Hacker's Diet, the Water with Lemon diet - so I bookmarked all of the websites and slowly read through them. I obviously stuck with No-S since it is the most sensible. I had given up on calorie counting about 6 months before but I still read the emails they send me for tips and success stories.

Back in fall of 2006, Mark Forester did a review of No-S. (He's kind of a "productivity/time managment" guy). I found it through him.

Don't think he stuck with it, though. Over-tweaking got him.

So I've been here prior to the book.

I had bought the French Women Don't Get Fat book, and really liked some of what Mireille had to say but her tone was extremely grating. I Googled "French women diet" or something like that to see what others had said about it, and No S popped up. I read the front page and it clicked that THIS was the most sensible diet plan I'd ever heard of -- the only one that fit with what I believe about the importance of food and pleasure and not getting nuts or hating your body.

I have been on No S for the second time since the beginning of January, and I see no reason not to do this for the rest of my life.

I first read about NoS on the Ttapp Nutrition board. More than five years ago, I lost 50 pounds through weight training and "watching what I ate." Then I injured myself, got too busy to "watch", ended up Hypothryroid, and regained all the weight. My injuries left me unable to resume the exercises I had been doing. I swore never to "go on a diet", but somehow my attempts at "watching what I ate" never got off the ground.

Out of desperation, when I happened to be at the Ttapp board, wondering if I would be able to follow that exercise program without injury, I clicked on the Nutrition forum. Tons of weird diets were posted. I read about all of them, always skipping the NoS-titled posts because I thought (erroneously) that NoS meant No Sugar. We live in the Balkans and that just isn't possible.

However, when every other link turned out to be too strange, I finally, at the very end, clicked and read about NoS. I was hooked from Day 1 and haven't strayed since....

I was a member at our local Curves back in 2007, and the owner told me about it. She was very interested in eating whole foods, lots of fruits and vegetables and limited sugar. She spent countless hours on the Internet researching various diets and stumbled onto it when she was googling diets low in sugar. So I went home and looked it up, read and printed off the information from the website, and started the next day. This was all before the book came out! I had a great deal of success using NoS that first round, but sadly got sidetracked by some personal events. I made several more vain attempts to restart NoS without any luck. I just couldn't sustain it for very long. So, I went back to dieting - tried WW again, and then intuitive eating - neither worked for very long...I was feeling at the bottom of the barrel one day sitting in my kitchen, when I spotted my NoS magnet stuck up on my refrigerator. It was like a light bulb went off! What had I been thinking and doing all this time? The next day, this past April 30, I restarted NoS with a completely new determination to succeed. Why is this time so different? Maybe I just had to get one last fill of the misery of a *counting* diet, or the utter confusion of trying to figure out if I was REALLY hungry or not. Maybe I just had to be convinced that NoS is the sanest approach to eating that I've ever come across. I truly believe I'm free from dieting for good - no more for me. NoS is my way of life now.

Mimi

I found the No S Diet book at the library, just browsing the diet books, hoping to find something inspirational; I've been having major problems with motivation. Spent the rest of the day reading the book, found the website, and here I am.

I found an article on SHOVELGLOVIN' on the Lifehacker.com site in late january 2009 ... this lead me to ES. (Everyday Systems)

Cheers !

Marc

Disclaimer : I am following a more extreme version of the 'No-S' diet.
I made my own personal modifications to the original plan (Diet & Exercise)
What I am doing should not be misinterpreted as being a typical 'No-S' diet experience.
11/01/2008 : 280.0 pounds - - - 06/29/2009 : 208.2 pounds
7 months 29 days / 71.8 pounds

I learned about it while browsing on Amazon, read the reviews, found the site and went out shortly thereafter and bought the book.

I listened to Jimmy Moore's poscast with Reinhard and it just sounded like the answer for me! I am on Day 1!

An age old question maybe...

Perhaps, but I never get tired of it

And there always seem to be interesting new answers.

Just the fact that people heard about it in so many different places is interesting.

Reinhard

BigE wrote:I found the No S Diet book at the library

Hooray! Go, libraries!

I found NoS via a poster to Scott Adams's Dilbert blog.

I first read about No-S in the faculty room in a "Quick & Simple" magazine's mantra of the week. I loved the simplicity of the rules. That was in June of 2008.

I successfully no-essed for a while and then fell off the bandwagon. (Ramadan came and went and then I got pregnant with my second child). I have about two weeks until my due date.

This will definitely be my plan for getting back to my pre-pregnancy weight of 135 lbs. I can't ever imagine going back to calorie counting and wondering the best way to "spend" my 1200 calories for the day.

I saw it at a Barnes & Noble, flipped through it but was skeptical. Then I checked out the website a few weeks later and became intrigued enough to buy the book. This was back in February and I'm more convinced than ever that this is the way to go. I can't imagine EVER going back to counting points or calories.

I read about it on another discussion forum.

Woman's World article about the time the book was published.

Of course that magazine continues to have the new best plan for losing weight every week to catch your eye at the check-out stand. I have a pile of the ones I'd bought pre-No S. I haven't bought a one since! No need-I've found my solution!

I used to write a company internal newsletter and used to add a "here's something interesting/random/wacky to try" section each week.

I came accross an article about Shovelglove in a Guardian web news article. I put a snippet about it in my newsletter and challenged the guys in my office to try it (none of them did, wimps or if they did, they did it secretly and didn't tell anyone!).

Anywho, that got me reading all the Everyday Systems sites and I was hooked on the No S idea and started it that day. My biggest S was seconds, but it only took a few weeks to quash that daily bad habit!

I first found out about shovelglove from Mistress Krista's weightlifting for women site. http://www.stumptuous.com

I was very intrigued when I saw a sledgehammer in her photo of items from her own home gym. So I clicked the link and discovered shovelglove. From there, I found No-S.

All the Everyday Systems things have the nice ring of self-improvement through moderation.

Since rededicating myself to shovelglove, I've got more definition in my arms than ever before. And because of No-S (and losing 40 lbs in last year), I can see the definition more than ever before. I still have a bunch of weight to lose -- like 60-80 lbs -- but slow and steady wins this race.

I'm even using the habit traffic light to keep my motivated as I try to wrap up my dissertation this summer!

jules

Some woman suggested that I check out the "Blood type" diet back in 2005...
I just googled it, and then on the side of the page I saw this little tiny google ad saying "Thinking of trying the Blood Type diet... don't bother" or something like that (sorry Reinhard I know I've just butchered your clever ad!!!)
It was enough to divert my attention and then I read the online version of NoS from beginning to end and had so many "Aha!!!" moments and times when I was simply laughing from Reinhard's very witty and intelligent take on diets, I was immediately sold that night.
I consider myself blessed to have found NoS.
I really was at the end of my rope at that point.

Eternally
"Grateful" Debs x

Amen to that Grateful Deb! Thank you Rheinard forever and ever for putting this site together. It would be great to have an Everyday Systems chain (sorry to commericalize you once again) like LA Weight Loss. I'd counsel people about using No S diet and we could have Shovelglove workouts available twice an hour (for 14 minutes each). Instead of bring your own yoga mat, people could bring their own sledgehammer. It would be awesome!

Hello! I'm a newbie, and this is my first post. Anyway, I heard about No S from another fitness board I frequently visit. I jsut started it last Friday, because I'm desperate to kick my addiction to sweets. So far, it's going fairly well. I had a slip up day yesterday, so I'm making up for it today.

I first found No S in 2004 while searching for info on no-sugar diets. At that time, the site was just the front page and it made such sense in its simplicity (and it was funny, as well). I kept coming back to read it when I needed inspiration. I lost that last 10 pounds of baby weight in a month and kept it off for a few years and even through another pregnancy. I got completely derailed when I began nursing school. But I'm ready to come back full-time

I was about to fall off the cliff (again) and was frantically searching on Amazon for some diet book that I could try "just for a few weeks" to get me back on track. The "People Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed ..." section for one of the books led me to the No-S book. I spent the rest of the day breathlessly and excitedly reading through the website, bought the book and sledge hammer, and the rest is history! I do wish No-S were more publicized (Oprah, where are you when we need you?!) so that chancing upon it isn't the random experience that I had.

I stumbled upon urbanranger.com when I was googling LOTR and rangers. This lead me to the rest of the everydaysystems.com network.

I'm so cool!

I was reading various articles and posts on the AARP (okay, I admit, I'm 55--actually 4 days from 56) on their Fat 2 Fit web postings...wasn't really connecting with them, but someone mentioned a list of diets they had tried which included NoS. The name intrigued me and I googled it and here I am on day 4 of my first set of 21 days! And all successes in the NoS eating area!

Today I was missing eating nuts (which I have snacked on--they are in abundance here in the Central Valley) and it occurred to me that I could add a few to my plate at any meal. A Eureka Moment. Isn't that funny...I realize I thought of nuts as a snack food. So tonight I added a couple tablespoons of dry roasted cashews, almonds and pistachios to my dinner plate. Enjoyed them so much and they were so satisfying, I only ate half my sandwich. I enjoyed them way more than the handfuls several times a day as a snack previously!

I'm hooked! I love this new relationship with food and the new me that is emerging--even in this short 6 days that I've read and practiced! I know I sound like I'm off the deep end, but it has redefined my life! I'm never going back!
Pam

On a simple living message board. You would think this would be a natural audience but there's plenty of diet head thinking there, too.

Found the book at Barnes & Noble, casually flipped through it... tried doing No-S for ONE day, not really knowing any finer details. Figured if I could make it one day and not want to stab myself in the eye, I would go back and buy the book.

My eye is intact. I bought the book.

I'm on Day 11 and I feel thinner! Yippee!

My sister-in-law is always trying new diets and found the book at Barnes and Noble and gave us some highlights. Before I knew there was a web-site or before I even googled it, I went purchased the book. I gave it a shot starting in January of this year, started the HabitCal, did some daily postings, but then I changed jobs and couldn't really do the HabitCal or the postings and thus fell off the wagon. Since I was successful at it for the bulk of 2 months, I refuse to try any other diet. Now I'm back at it!