Luke's Daily Check In

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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Luke's Daily Check In

Post by rabidpoobear » Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:01 am

I've just started the diet today. Even though Sunday and Monday are holidays I'm treating them like N days.

A friend had a party at a barbecue place about a week ago, and most of our group opted to get the "all you can eat" plate. Instead of that, I got the child's plate.

I'm not attempting to deprive myself. The fact is... I don't need to eat nearly as much food as I do. So I'm going to eat 3 reasonable meals a day and that's it.

My problem's twofold... Firstly, I do normally snack throughout the day. This is a habit that I am confident will be easy to break. It's not something I've had forever, and it's something I can deal with easily. Secondly, I do get seconds a lot.

It turns out that I naturally don't like sweets. For whatever reason, I don't especially enjoy the taste of chocolate. I'm not tempted to eat ice cream, and I tend to throw a lot of it away because it goes bad in my freezer.

But since I saw the amount of food everyone else consumed at the barbecue place, and I reflected upon it, I realize that the seconds is probably my biggest problem.

I hadn't found the S diet until today, but I had already been doing it since Wednesday. I just eat 3 times a day, or less if I'm not hungry, and I make sure to eat a reasonable amount of food. My body seems to have adjusted really quickly and it doesn't seem to care that I'm eating probably about 40-50% less food per meal.
After eating a plate of food at a restaurant I'd typically do the scrape thing to try to get every last bit of food off the plate. Now I just stop when I'm clearly not hungry anymore (I let myself eat a few bites extra sometimes) and I pack up the rest of the meal. I haven't been to a restaurant since Wednesday where I've felt that I have honestly needed to finish a plate to satiate my hunger.

At this point I have a feeling that perhaps I never had really strong hunger urges, and it was mostly psychological. It's been 6-7 hours since I ate a half a ham/egg/cheese sandwich with chips and a pickle, and I'm not hungry at all. I hope this is true, because if so, once I kick the snacking and overeating habits, it should be dead easy to stick with the diet. We shall see how my progress progresses!

I'm a very busy college student and I won't have time to update every day, but I'll try to keep it up. I'm also going to start Shovelgloving on Tuesday and see if I think it'll be a safe, effective, fun workout for me. I'm guessing that I'll appreciate the routine and it will work really well for me. I have the type of body where it's easy to build muscle, I believe, but as long as I start feeling results within the first few weeks (which I doubt I wouldn't!) I'm going to stick with the workout for some time. I am also going to Urban Ranger it a bit.

I'm not extremely overweight. I'm a 6'3" male around 260 lbs (can't weigh myself right now, roommate is asleep.) I am a pretty huge guy and it doesn't look very bad on me. but I'd really like to be in better shape, and build a fitness/diet routine that'll last me throughout my lifetime. And this seems like a great place to start.

So... Sunday is SUCCESS
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Post by rabidpoobear » Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:04 am

Oh, and I'm a graduate student now, and since all my classes are at night, I can't give myself the excuse that I don't have enough time in the morning to exercise.
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