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MamieTamar

I can't find the Habitcal anymore. Has the address changed ?

MamieTamar

My mind is free of all that independently of NoS.

MamieTamar

reinhard wrote: anyone interested in being in being deputized with spam destroying powers? I've been hesitant to consider this, but it may be time...

Reinhard

Would this require special knowledge of computering ?

MamieTamar

A very interesting podcast to listen to or read on line :

https://www.theenergyblueprint.com/how-to-lose-body-fat/?inf_contact_key=5d2445d22

It deals with questions we are all asking ourselves, and concludes that the best diet hands up is the one you can stay on, and even if the results are poorer ...

MamieTamar

https://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=11809

MamieTamar

Thank you for that interesting post, Oolala. I've heard several podcasts by Longo, and although I won't try it out myself for various reasons, for one thing because of being over 70 and not looking for more problems, I'm very curious about it. Please do keep us updated if and when you try it. I fail ...

MamieTamar

A few quotations from the article :

From the NHANES study in 1977, most people ate was 3 times per day â€“ breakfast, lunch and dinner. I grew up in the 1970s. There were no snacks. (â€¦) Recently Satchin Panda did an interesting study on current eating habits, (â€¦) Essentially, we started eating ...

MamieTamar

I think you totally missed Fung's point, if you read his article at all. He absolutely and emphatically in umpteen posts rejects the calories theory, as well as its efficiency long term (short term it does work, with a staggering proportion of long term failures). His point is that IF (as well as ...

MamieTamar

I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I can't browse through 137 pages to unearth it.

I found Dr Fung through this forum, and he has a lot to say about both obesity and diabetes. I thought today's article might be of interest here :

https://idmprogram.com/the-critical-importance-of-meal ...

MamieTamar

Quite. My mother never ever baked, and we bought cakes only for very special occasions like birthdays etc.
My aunt used to bake one delicious fruit cake for us when she came to visit for a long period once a year, and it lasted us something like months...

MamieTamar

I did and do use non-sugar sweeteners.

Oolala, have you ever found those to be a problem, to interfere with weight loss and/or health ? We are so repeatedly warned about them, but I don't seem to be able to do without them. Any comments on sweeteners anyone (apart from the fact that it's not ...

MamieTamar

This may sound very old-fashioned, but... why keep any snacks at all at home ? Just don't buy them !

MamieTamar

Yes, this is exactly what I do, having had very modest results with No S only. In the beginning, I used to feel famished by mid-afternoon, and I planned a 3rd meal then, but eventually I realized it was all in my head, and now I'm quite OK with 2 meals a day. However, since in our French culture ...

MamieTamar

Exactly ! I'm not only older than you but smaller too (5.00), and I need fewer calories than I like to admit. When I have a meal, I like having a MEAL, not a big snack, so in turns out that in order to do that, I have to be content with two.

Yes, I agree it's a mod of NoS. I describe it to myself ...

MamieTamar

I didn't have much success on NoS, because quite honestly, it wasn't that different from what I'd been doing all my life. I was born and raised in France at the end of the war, at a time when wasting a crust of bread was very much frowned upon. As a child, a sweet was a treat that I saw only a few ...

MamieTamar

I have "The Obesity Code", and it is all about obesity proper. Fung is preparing two other books : one on fasting, and one on diabetes. Obviously, there are other ways to conquer obesity, and he says so himself, but I saw how effective a very mild form of IF helped my husband (12 kilos in a few ...

MamieTamar

No GermanHerman, it's a bug, the blog is open to everybody. You know what? Just try intensivedietarymanagement.com, then in the Tags (right column),chose "fasting", and take your pick from the umpteen articles on the subject !

The reason I'm giving this link is because Dr Fung isn't "one of the ...

MamieTamar

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My reaction is always the same: Show me the scientific background and I will show you the blind spot: "

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/ ... ng-part-9/

MamieTamar

reinhard wrote:Sadly it's just English... if you know anyone will to translate, please let me know and I'll put them in touch with my agent.

Hi Reinhard, unfortunately I don't speak any Croatian, but as a professional translator I'd love to translate it into French, if you feel like it.

MamieTamar

Another thing you might try is having a good breakfast (more than presently), skip lunch, having a good dinner with your husband, and a light meal at night.

MamieTamar

Besides, I've been listening again recently to all the podcasts, and in one of them (on the mods) Reinhard touches on this point and says that technically, it is not even a mod because the "rules" only mention "no snacking", they do not actually mention the number of "official meals", although for ...

MamieTamar

Hi, Owendale.

I recently had experience with intermittent fasting. I know, this is not the fasting you are talking about, because it allows not only water but any non-caloric drinks, including tea or coffee. I am quite aware of what you are talking about, but this maybe a way to ease into it.

For ...

MamieTamar

The idea is to boost your metabolism. And somewhere, the same Billy Craig states that his overeating triggered hyperactivity of his thyroid.
I didn't try it (or almost not) the Billy Craig way, but more like Matt Stone's Diet Recovery (see for instance his interview in :
http://eatmore2weighless.com ...

MamieTamar

All you said is true, but it s not what I was talking about. Read the series on "Calories" in Marianna's link, you'll see he's speaking about calories not counting at all, even in great quantities. And I've myself read posts by someone who lost an amazing number of pounds by overfeeding (something ...

MamieTamar

Marianna, I went through the whole series, and I was more than a little puzzled by the Calorie section. OK, I don't count calories, I feel that I can't do it ever again, but he seems to be saying that as long as you watch the quality of your food, quantity is totally irrelevant, which goes against ...

MamieTamar

Thank you ever so much everyone for these so encouraging "red periods" (rather than days) testimonies. I thought I was the only one around unable to stick to even three measly rules for even a short period of time, but now I see that the road to success is nothing but a succession of less and less ...

MamieTamar

Readjust your appetite, oolala ? How could it possibly do that ? I'm permanently either hungry or cheating !

MamieTamar

Dale, I once read a book about losing weight by inhaling food scents. I couldn't remember what it was called but I think I have found its trace. Hope these links work. Needless to say, it did not do anything for me !

http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News/obesity-weight-loss-DrAlan-Hirsch-SENSA ...

MamieTamar

I don't know if you have them, in France we have diet syrups, with stevia in them (but I've read that not as much stevia as they claim, the rest being other artificial sweeteners), and you can use as much or as little as you wish to make a drink. For me the main point is they're not sparkling, I can ...

MamieTamar

I never have only one physical plate, since this is not the way we eat in France. I go by intuition of what a "normal portion" of anything is, and more important by what amount of food it takes to get you to the next meal pleasantly hungry but not starving.

MamieTamar

"Just eat smaller portions" is too vague and I came unglued trying to figure out my body's definition of "reasonable". .

I agree that "one plate" is too vague. No sugar and no snacks are real, measurable criteria. "No seconds" is not, it is open to any interpretation. Size of plate, what it is ...

MamieTamar

My understanding is that French students have a 2-hour break in the middle of the day: an hour to eat and an hour to play.

Yes, this is exactly what I was planning to add. In school, I have always had 2 hours at midday, which was enough to go back home (a 40 mn underground drive), have lunch ...

MamieTamar

I don't know if they start school as early as some schools do here, though. But certainly, eating every hour or even two hours is not necessary for humans.

I think children in France start the school day about 8 or 8:30, but they are in school until about 4:30.

That's in the smaller classes ...

MamieTamar

Thanks a lot.

MamieTamar

They also value consistent moderate exertion, even in urban areas; you don't have to be a farmer to recreate their calorie burn

Add to this that it is not necessarily valuing it, but having it imposed as a way of life. For instance, I have never in my adult life lived in a building equipped with ...

MamieTamar

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MamieTamar

Marie-Claire is a French journal, and to the French, "snacking" means having an extra small meal (called "goÃ»ter" for children and "collation" for adults), which might be a piece of bread and black chocolate for children and an apple+yogourt for health-conscious adults. That's what "snacking" means ...

MamieTamar

Ooops, sorry ! I thought in terms of hot cocoa, not hot chocolate, because it's the only thing we have in the house. Might not make all that much of a difference, though...

MamieTamar

And if you do as part of your meal, after all it's also a healthy choice !

MamieTamar

Exactly so. For these precise cultural reasons, the concept "one plate" has no meaning for me, so I've "translated" it to : "a medium to small (according to appetite) portion of everything". It works quite well.

MamieTamar

Pure cocoa cannot be considered as sweet by any stretch of the imagination. I have it quite often, with 1 sweetener only (after 50+ years of dieting, I've come to prefer saccharine to real sugar), and with no negative side effects. It's delicious and invigorating. The same applies to a tiny square ...

MamieTamar

I'm still puzzled about dark chocolate. When I started NoS, I used to eat every day a square of 90% dark chocolate, which I love. I figured that 90% was pretty little sugar and therefore it must be OK. Technically, I think it is. But... I did not start losing any weight at all until I restricted it ...

MamieTamar

The beauty of S days is precisely that, that they are part of the program, they aren't called "cheat days". It's not cheating, it's following your program (which should never be called a diet). Cheat on legitimate S days, and soon you'll also cheat on legitimate N days.

MamieTamar

Quite. This is one of Jonathan's Bailor's answer to the question : what about the peoples who live on rice ? Answer : those don't have enough to eat anyway, so they can't get fat.
It is also often claimed that animals are naturally thin, owing to their following their natural instinct. But animals ...

MamieTamar

When we are there, we live in Jerusalem, Bayit Vegan. But my first contact with Israel more than 40 years ago was in a kibbutz near Beercheva...

MamieTamar

I don't know about this Intuitive Eating American program, but I've been on a French program called "Linecoaching" rather similar, except that it was supposed to teach you how "naturally thin" people relate to food, and eventually how to program yourself so that you would feel hungry at the ...

MamieTamar

I was there last a fortnight ago and I'll be there again in a week's time, and I've never seen anything of the sort at the grocery store. Whereabouts do you live ?

MamieTamar

Hi Chani, where do you find 85% chocolate in IsraÃ«l? I've never been able to find more than 60% there. Also, where do you find coconut milk with a decent hekhsher ? Or do you maybe import everything ?

MamieTamar

I just want to add that for me, the very first step I took, even before starting no S, was to work on fully accepting my current weight. I read Linda Bacon's "Healthy at every size" and similar French books, I got rid of all the clothes I loved but had no hope of ever being able to wear again, and ...

MamieTamar

This thread is old, but am I glad I found it ! I kept wondering how anybody could eat only 3 platefuls a day and not be starving, and I had a hunch that American plates must be bigger than our French ones. You bet they are ! I've just measured my dinner plates, they are 15 cm diameter (not including ...

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