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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by cathis4Him » Tue May 20, 2008 1:11 pm
We went to the Beach and I ate LOTs of SEAFOOD! I know I probably ate "seconds" because the plates were so big....but I didn't eat snacks or sweets, and I had kept the weekend before no S days to prepare for the trip.
5/12/08 I lost two pounds for total of 8 pounds .
5/19/08 Thought I did pretty good all week but scales said I was up two pounds
I ate a lot of "junk food" this weekend and a big piece of danish pastry.I'm going to get the grill going and cook out this next week more.
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you!