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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Lovedby2
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by Lovedby2 » Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:44 pm
Hello! I wanted to introduce myself. I have been No Sing for about a month and reading here on the site. My history of dieting is familiar to most so I won't bore you. Let's just say I am done...but fat. I am here to learn, and in a way I have been learning for a while now, just by eliminating what doesn't work in the diet world. I am very encouraged by the veterans here on the site. The fact that there is such longevity proves this is quite a different approach. So veterans, keep it up for future generations.
Always learning.
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eschano
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by eschano » Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:21 pm
Welcome!
eschano - Vanilla rocks!
July 2012- January 2016
Started again January 2021
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Strawberry Roan
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by Strawberry Roan » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:40 pm
Welcome, this is a wonderfully encouraging site.
We are all on this journey together and are here to support you and each other.
To your health,
Berry