JBRhode's Daily Check In

Counting carbs/calories is a drag. Obsessive scale stepping is a recipe for despair. If you want to count something, "days on habit" is a much better metric. Checking off days on a calendar would do just fine, but if you do it here you get accountability and support. Here's how. Start a new topic in this forum called (say) "Your Name Daily Check In." Then every N day post a "reply" to that topic as to whether you stayed on habit. A simple "<font color="green">SUCCESS</font>" or "<font color="red">FAILURE</font>" (or your preferred euphemism if that's too harsh) is sufficient, but obviously you're welcome to write more if you want. On S-days just register that you're taking an S-day. You don't have to do this forever, just until you're confident you've built the habit. Feel free to check in weekly or monthly or sporadically instead of daily. Feel free also to track other habits besides No-s (I'm keeping this forum under No-s because that's what the vast majority are using it for). See also my <a href="/habitcal/">HabitCal</a> tool for another more formal (and perhaps complementary) way to track habits.

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JBRhode
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JBRhode's Daily Check In

Post by JBRhode » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:08 pm

Ok.. so I've been flirting with the concept of NoS for several weeks now - I've read through lots of posts and all the information available and I think the time has finally come to actually DO this thing and work on changing my habits. So this is my first official NoS day. Its been actually a sort of difficult commitment to make because 1. I fear committing to something I worry I won't stick to and 2. I desire instant gratification in the form of super quick weight loss. But having identified these holdbacks I find them to be unreasonable excuses for not making a change in my eating habits, which I desperately need to do. I have to beat it into my own head, however, that the change in habit has to come first, the weight loss next. So today - no problems in between breakfast and lunch. Its the afternoon/evening that does my in anyway, so I guess tomorrow I will be checking back in "for real".
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NoSRocks
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Post by NoSRocks » Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:18 pm

GOOD LUCK!!!
No S-er since December 2009
Streamlined S Days: 6/25/12
SW: 170 /CW: 127
Weight loss to date: 43 lbs
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Post by Pangelsue2 » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:48 am

Best of luck with the first step. Be good to yourself every step of the way. Learn from successes and failures.
I'm baaaack.
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Post by Strawberry Roan » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:37 am

Welcome and good luck. It is up to each individual but I have found that it is best to just relax, concentrate on planning a day of healthy meals, eating them, and then repeating the next day. I do not take S Days Gone Wild or anything, if there is a reason to have a "treat" or something during the week, I would do so and not necessarily eat one single sweet or snack on the weekend just because I had the freedom to do so unless an event presented itself - be it a birthday party, or just a good looking blue eyed husband asking me if I wanted to go out for an ice cream. Sometimes S can be for spontaneous.

I have learned that we (the royal "we") eat WAY more food than we need to sustain us and maintain a healthy body, we move way less and we obsess too much about both. :D
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