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 noSjohn » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:26 am
Fell of the wagon during the holidays. Current weight 182.
Week 1
011110 - M - 182.4 - Successful N Day
011210 - T - 181.2 - S Day
011310 - W - 182.0 - Successful N Day
011410 - T - 180.6 - Successful N Day
011510 - F - 182.0 - Failed N Day
011610 - S - 182.4 - Failed N Day
011710 - F - 182.2 - S Day
Week 2
I Started the NO-S diet on FRI 01-23-09; Weighing in at 186.
My lowest weight is 166 (SUN 09-06-09).
I fell off the wagon during the 2009 Holiday season, but I began full force again on Jan 1, 2010 - weighing in at 182.4.