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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KAxelrod
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by KAxelrod » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:48 am
Friday - N day. Success.
Saturday and Sunday. Totally out of control. But, I'm not worrying about S days yet. Just trying to get N days on track.
Monday - N day. Success,
Tuesday - N day. Success.
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KAxelrod
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by KAxelrod » Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:18 am
Wednesday - I think I'll call it a failed N day. It could have been an S day if I decided it was going to be, but I didn't. I did a 20 mile training walk on the treadmill (marathon in a few weeks), and then I came home and ate, ate, ate. Oh well.
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by KAxelrod » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:59 am
Thursday - N day. Success. Although, I am tweaking a bit. (having large plate of salad, in addition to other food at dinner).
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by gratefuldeb67 » Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:59 am
Wow!!! Twenty miles on the treadmill!!!
Good luck on the marathon Karen
Debs x
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KAxelrod
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by KAxelrod » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:46 am
Friday - N day. Failure
Sat. and Sunday - S days.
Monday - N day. Failure.
Not going well!
