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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erialicia
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by erialicia » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:48 am
I am starting the No S diet tomorrow. I need to lose 80 lbs and also, most importantly, stop obsessing about food and just eat 3 healthy meals a day without counting ANYTHING of eliminating any food group. My grandma at this way, (without knowing it was the No S diet of course!) and lived to be 96. I think most people used to eat this way before all the obesity in our country etc... I Plan on focusing on cooking healthy meals and like I said break my obsession with thinking of food. I also plan on walking one hour per day.
Wish me luck!
Eri
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Frau Koch
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by Frau Koch » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:13 am
I certainly do!
Welcome.
And be patient with yourself
English is not my native language - so please write a little bit slower and louder