CSweet's Journal

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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Post by CSweet » Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:52 pm

When I started this year I had hoped to be halfway to my goal weight of 130 pounds. Now it's July and I'm not even close. But I am tired to going round and round with diet after diet after diet. Can there actually be a way to eat normally and lose weight? No S? Maybe?
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Post by sarahkay » Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:42 pm

I'm trying it out too. I feel like there's a chance of me sticking to this, but not a chance at all on other diets! I think this is a pretty normal way to eat, it just feels like a "diet" because of the structure that we normally don't have in our eating habits! I bet even naturally thin people have structure going on in their minds similar to No S.
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Post by CSweet » Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:03 pm

I agree Sarahkay.

I pay attention to my naturally thin husband and there is a pattern/structure/rhythm to his eating.

It's so funny that I am the one who is always jumping on the latest diet and nutrition bandwagon; preaching about what is healthy and what is not, yet I am still overweight. He just eats the foods he likes and doesn't allow himself to get out of control and he is still thin.
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