Everyday Systems

Hi there. Found this site today and it will fit perfectly with my 2 new habits. Habit one is from FlyLady to keep my sink shiny every night. Doesn't sound too hard - but it kinda is for me. Second habit is to eat healthy. Yes I need to lose weight, but that's a by-product of healthy eating right?

I've already successfully implemented 2 other habits that are on autopilot (I don't even think about them!) One is to make my bed every day when I get up. The other is to pack my lunch every day to take to work.

We'll see about adding walking when the weather gets a little warmer (below zero here today!) and I've been successful at keeping these 4 habits going for a while.

Set up HabitCal for my 2 new habits and am ready to roll!

Diana

Welcome!
I like how you're gradually adding habits, one by one.

Good for you! I need to take some lessons from you. It is great how you are slowly adding more once you have already had some success. Looks like you are on the right track!

Pretty cold here in Ohio too. No walking the dogs for me.

So yesterday and so far today have been successes. I got up a little earlier and made me and the hubs oatmeal with bananas. I'm usually a breakfast skipper or else its a quick bowl of cereal (the sugary kind ). The oatmeal "stuck to my ribs" and I wasn't hungry until lunch. Yay! Dinner is in the crock pot and will be ready when I get home. Last night my son's girlfriend stopped by with a candy bar for me and I thanked her and put it in the cupboard for a treat on my first S day. Go me!

Well done! and tomorrow you can have the candy bar -- enjoy your weekend!

Just as point of information: it is very possible to get and stay heavy eating "healthy." I have lived in countries that had virtually no junk food, but there were plenty of chunky people. It was not considered a cultural virtue to eat moderately and stay slim. Slim and heavy people of both sexes were considered desirable.

Also, it is possible to be overweight and healthy.

For me, the value of moderation is the way it usually lets me feel comfortable without being stuffed.

This lifestyle has let me feel the most pleasure all around of almost any way I have lived. I think even if I lived where overweight were more accepted, I would still stick with No S. I hope you stay the course and get the bennies.

oolala53 wrote:This lifestyle has let me feel the most pleasure all around of almost any way I have lived.
I think even if I lived where overweight were more accepted, I would still stick with No S.

oolala53 --- I think that THIS is the secret to your own personal dieting success.

Yes, I agree. I think it's true of any behavior change, especially eating, because eating is so central to life and food is so reinforcing for most.

People who maintain losses have to come to peace, for the most part, with the tradeoffs. The tradeoffs have come to seem less like sacrifices and more like just what you do. The resentment factor drops enough so that their eating life just is what it is.

Oops, meant to edit my other post.

Well I was a little nervous about my first "S" days this weekend. Is that weird? I was afraid I would undo everything that I had done during the week. Also since I was home instead of at work I was afraid I would binge eat all weekend.

I did very well! I had a Large Coke on Sunday and a candy bar on Saturday. Other than that I didn't do anything too funny. I know I could have. But I didn't need to and I didn't want to. And I didn't feel deprived. I think knowing I could if I wanted to was enough. It's when I can't have something and know I can't for a long time to come, that I fail.

So. Yay me! I can do this. It's not rocket science. It's not depriving. And it's working! (I'm actually down 3 pounds since 1/23.)

DianaS wrote:Well I was a little nervous about my first "S" days this weekend. Is that weird?

So. Yay me! I can do this. It's not rocket science. It's not depriving. And it's working! (I'm actually down 3 pounds since 1/23.)

Not weird at all. I think a lot of folks deal with that S day nervousness.

Well done! Congratulations, and continued success!

Fearing S days is totally normal. Glad you enjoyed yourself.

My first 10 days are done. I'd call it successful.

No S = 9 successes out of 10 days
Shiny Sink = 8 successes out of 10 days

Moving this thread over to Daily Checkin thread moving forward.

See you there.