Katie'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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papaya73
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Katie's Daily Check In

Post by papaya73 » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:26 pm

New here and just starting No S. Today wasn't easy. I'm not very good about eating breakfast. Today I had oatmeal, and though it was high in fiber, I was starving by mid-morning! Guess I'll have to eat a bigger breakfast. I wonder if cappuccino counts. Whenever I have one of those, I'm not hungry at all until at least 1pm.

So even though I was starving, I didn't have a snack. Lunch was tomato soup, sliced strawberries and some chips (I know, that wasn't the best). That wasn't enough to tide me over and I ended up having a handful of cashews and a large piece of bread just a little while ago. Dinner is in an hour and I know I'll be fine until then. I just need to eat enough so that I don't get hungry tonight. I do my worst snacking in the evenings.

Starting weight: 178.4lbs
Goal by April 25 (family wedding): 160lbs
Ultimate goal: 150lbs
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