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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Sinnie
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by Sinnie » Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:03 pm
Hey everyone, here I go again. Really frustrated with myself but I guess just try, try again.
Day 1: Tues. June 17, 2008
Late Breakfast (10:30am) - oatmeal with peanut butter and banana, few blueberries (didn't finish, made way too much).
Lunch (1pm) - finished the oatmeal w/ pb and banana, 1/2 a cheese sandwich, bean salad with kidney beans and chickpeas, blueberries.
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cvmom
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by cvmom » Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:06 pm
Welcome Back Sinnie.
I just recommitted too after a little backsliding! I've got 9 days under my belt. Let's go for 365 days, shall we?
Dru