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So did I. I have made many attempts to calculate my calorie intake. 
It was very difficult. But now with No-s, as Reinhard put it, there 
is only three meals. It is so simple for me to calculate. This whole 
process makes it somewhat simple to be successful. 





--- In , Maxine Smith <maxsteinmetz@y...> 
wrote:
> Thanks I needed that. 
> Maxine
> 
> Reinhard Engels <beautiful_idiot@y...> wrote:
> First off, thanks all for your congratulations. I
> really do appreciate it.
> 
> I had a thought as I was urban rangering home from the
> hospital the other day:
> 
> Portion control is obviously an important issue, and
> not directly addressed by the no-s rules. But if you
> think about it, it is addressed, and not all that
> indirectly. Here's how: there is no practical way to
> control portion size if you don't control portion
> number. If you don't see it all in front of you at
> once, you can't get a sense of how much it is without
> a whole lot of calculating (which almost no one does
> after the initial diet honeymoon). 
> 
> It's critical to develop and be able to rely on this
> sense. Think of it as the difference between being
> told "an 8000 pound object is approaching you from SSW
> at a velocity of 32 meters per second" vs. seeing that
> you are about to be hit by a truck. Which of these is
> going to get you to step out of the way faster? Math
> is great for many things, but your eyeballs are nice,
> too. The nosdiet framework gives your eyeballs a
> chance. It puts it all right there in front of them.
> They're a much better tool for portion control,
> because temptation really does come barreling around
> the corner like an out of control truck. You won't
> always have to time to reach for pencil and paper.
> 
> So many overweight people love to take multiple small
> "no thank you" portions. They think as long as they
> take less than a certain amount at a time, it doesn't
> really count, that the portion control alarm won't go
> off. And they're right; the alarm won't go off, but
> that's the whole problem: it should. If bank alarms
> were rigged to go off only when large amounts of cash
> were stolen the vaults would soon be empty. And the
> funny thing is people think they are fooling the
> people around them. This is almost never the case;
> they're just fooling themselves. Stick with fewer,
> bigger portions. Better let the alarm go off and have
> it ring in your ears than tip toe around it. An noisy
> alarm can be a great teacher.
> 
> Reinhard
> 
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