check in second week

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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lindalou
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check in second week

Post by lindalou » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:47 pm

Rose you were right the scales show I am down 2lbs on Wed. morning I got the book Monday and I find it very interesting. Before reading the book,I had already decide to quit buying Low fat, No fat all that supposed good for you food. After all I was still fat. Plus I SHOULD HAVE MONEY :D :D This week as been good I had no slip up so far.

rose
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Post by rose » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:43 am

That's great Lindalou. I mean,
about the days on habit :)

Don't trust individual scale
reading ;)
One option is to weigh yourself
only once per month or even less
(i.e. only weigh yourself when you
notice a difference in your body
or the way your clothes fit).

The other (rather obsessive)
option is to weight yourself
almost everyday and compute weekly
or fortnightly averages (requires
some use in order not to be
disheartened by an apparent
setback!).

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