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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halfmoon_mollie
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by halfmoon_mollie » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:57 pm
Up late, didn't sleep well, neighbor downstairs snores so loud he either wakes me up or keeps me awake. But I got up! And I ate breakfast and got something out of the freezer for dinner. The hardest thing for me, I can tell, is going to be not snacking. anyone have any suggestions?
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r.jean
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by r.jean » Tue Oct 14, 2014 3:11 pm
Have a beverage instead of a snack. I use a cup of milk or tomato juice when I really need something because I am hungry. I use black coffee when I just want something but am not really hungry.
The journey is the reward.
Maintenance is progress.