Habit'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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Habit
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Habit's daily check in

Post by Habit » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:20 pm

Today is my first day. Four months post-partum and nursing. Current weight 131 pounds. Goal pre-pregnancy weight 110. But most importantly behavior modification and forming good habits.

Breakfast- PBJ sandwich
Lunch-ate quite a bit but in one serving. Curry rice.
Hope to keep it up for dinner. Tends to be

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Post by Habit » Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:19 am

21stjune- first day. Success
22nd June- failure:( ate half a brownie :(
I have decided to go to four meals. I am finding three meals very difficult.

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Post by middleager » Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:19 am

Breastfeeding makes you REALLY hungry, so. I think four meals is a good plan. I know you know, but don't forget to drink heaps of fluids between meals if you are not snacking.
Longest run so far: 22 days

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Post by automatedeating » Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:05 pm

Not sure how old you are, but 110 may not be a realistic weight for you.

Also not sure how hard you had to work to stay at 110 pre-pregnancy, or if that's what you have always weighed, or if you got yourself that low and now want to do it again.

It's aways a balance between whether you want to fight your body or enjoy your body. I want to enjoy mine. You can do that far more easily if you content yourself with where your body lands after a year or so on NoS.

Just sayin'--110 is a VERY low weight, even for us shorties (I am assuming you are 5'1'' and tiny-boned).

Fee free to correct all my assumptions. Back stories are fun.
Month/Year-BMI
8/13-26.3
8/14-24.5
5/15-26.2
1/16-26.9; 9/16-25.6
8/17-25.8; 11/17-26.9
3/18-25.6; 8/18-24.5; 10/18-23.8;
3/19-22.1; 10/19-21.8
6/20-22.5; 7/20-23.0; 9/20-23.6
4/21 - 25.2

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