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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Jan in Georgia
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by Jan in Georgia » Mon May 09, 2011 7:57 pm
Hello all. I am pretty new to this way of eating, having just discovered it at the end of last week. Yesterday was my first day (but it was an S day, conveniently), so I wanted to have some accountability.
I did set up HabitCal and am beginning to use it.
May 8 (Mother's Day)-S Day
May 9: Success and 33 minutes walking (hate it in this heat!) Funny business: I had a business meeting tonight. Since there is always food, I just ate about half a plate full (immediately before leaving home) and hit the veggie tray, fruit salad in small portions at the meeting. That way I didn't starve and I didn't eat the sweets and it really would have all fit on a dinner plate. I didn't think that was cheating, but please let me know if I am doing this wrong.
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Who Me?
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by Who Me? » Mon May 09, 2011 8:10 pm
Sounds good to me!