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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xJocelynx87
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by xJocelynx87 » Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:58 am
Day 1 - SUCCESS!
Breakfast - 1/2 toasted poppy seed bagel topped with a fried egg, orange, 2 cups coffee with cream/sugar
Lunch - breaded fish fillet, steamed broccoli with butter
Dinner - caesar salad, sausage ravioli with pesto, 2 glasses rose wine
Jocelyn
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xJocelynx87
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by xJocelynx87 » Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:33 am
Day 2 - SUCCESS!
Breakfast - 1/2 toasted poppyseed bagel, small pile of scrambled eggs, 2 cups coffee with cream/sugar
Lunch - breaded fish sandwich with lettuce and tartar sauce, steamed broccoli and cauliflower
Dinner - 2.5 enchiladas, glass of red sangria
Jocelyn
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eschano
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by eschano » Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:41 am
Great start!
eschano - Vanilla rocks!
July 2012- January 2016
Started again January 2021
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gingerpie
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by gingerpie » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:22 am
Looks like you're doing great. Keep it up
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xJocelynx87
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by xJocelynx87 » Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:18 am
Day 3 - SUCCESS!
B - pumpkin bread, iced latte with 2% milk
L - chicken and vegetable stir fry, roll
D - poached halibut, sauteed spinach, mashed potatoes, 1 malibu bay breeze
Jocelyn
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teadrinker
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by teadrinker » Fri Jun 26, 2015 2:34 pm
Mmm! Pumpkin bread! Your posts have great meal ideas!