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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lilycat
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by lilycat » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:11 am
Well im back. This place seems to make the most sense of the "diets " there are out there. This is day 3 without many pieces of candy. Im starting slow over the next couple days after the excess sugar withdrawel is over I hope to be fully back to No s. My weight is fine but my health needs healthier foods and less snacks and sugar highs and lows .
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eschano
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by eschano » Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:00 am
Hi Lilycat,
welcome back. I agree that this makes the most sense of the "diets" out there. I'm sure you can do it! Keep us updated on your progress.
eschano - Vanilla rocks!
July 2012- January 2016
Started again January 2021