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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ChandaLikePanda
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by ChandaLikePanda » Mon Jan 25, 2021 6:44 pm
I'm making a new check-in thread, because this time around, I'm really going to do this.
Vanilla No S, no tweaks. Today is my first N day. I can do this. Heck, the French eat this way every day. No snacking between meals, I mean. If they can do it, I can do it.
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by automatedeating » Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:26 pm
And hello there Chanda!!!
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by ChandaLikePanda » Wed Jan 27, 2021 3:53 am
Today was going to be a successful N day, in fact, it really was... But I decided to have 2 squares of dark chocolate. Which I think is a huge win for me, because I tend to eat all the sweets in sight. But it's still technically a sweet, and today is an N day, not an S day. So I have to mark it as a failure. But it was still a really good eating day.
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by automatedeating » Wed Jan 27, 2021 5:10 am
Huge win. I count this a huge win and not the technical fail!
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by Soprano » Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:19 pm
I agree a win, I don't think of 1 or 2 squares quality dark chocolate as a sweet.
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by ChandaLikePanda » Thu Jan 28, 2021 7:00 am
Okay, I will count them as successful N days! Thanks, guys!
Today was another great eating day! I had a light breakfast of toast and coffee, a slightly heavier lunch of a crispy chicken sandwich from BK (just the sandwich, no sides or soda), and a light dinner of a salad and a plain yogurt, followed by a couple of squares of dark chocolate and a glass of wine.
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by ChandaLikePanda » Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:19 pm
Yesterday was a great eating day... At least until I got home from work. I had such a stressful day and I am a stress eater. So yesterday was a failure.
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by ladybird30 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 1:16 am
May I kindly suggest that there is a difference between saying 'I am a .....' and 'I have the habit of ....'. The difference may be subtle, but identity is much harder to change than habits. When I was younger, I used to label myself as
a compulsive eater. Now I just tell myself that sometimes I eat too much. It has made me feel a lot
better about myself and my eating is much more ordered.
I wish you all the best with the stress eating.
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by ChandaLikePanda » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:02 am
Thanks, I'll try that and see if it changes my frame of mind.
Today was an S day, I was out with my family and having fun. We had Thai food, and mango sticky rice for dessert. I made sure not to eat too much, so I am comfortably satisfied.
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by ChandaLikePanda » Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:44 pm
Another S day! I'm just trying to eat in moderation and make (mostly) healthy choices. My splurge for today is a peppermint mocha from Starbucks, and finishing off the mango sticky rice from the Thai place we went to yesterday.
I've noticed that I am not really losing weight on the scale, but my pants are definitely looser. That's a plus! I've also decided that on February 1st, I'll weigh for the last time, and then I won't weigh again until March 1st. Just going to focus on No S and trying to eat nutritious, wholesome foods.
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by ChandaLikePanda » Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:38 pm
Another S day!
I found an app called Habit Calendar that lets you keep track of your daily habit, whatever that habit might be. You can mark the days just like you would with the Habitcal. Makes it easy to keep track of things!
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by ChandaLikePanda » Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:55 am
Today was a failed N day. Darned Pop tarts.
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by ChandaLikePanda » Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:38 pm
Today is going pretty well so far! Had breakfast, had lunch, no snacks, drank water, having a cup of coffee right now... We'll see how the day goes.
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by automatedeating » Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:44 pm
Damn pop tarts!
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3/18-25.6; 8/18-24.5; 10/18-23.8;
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by ChandaLikePanda » Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:33 pm
My mother in law died a couple of weeks ago, and we have been busy with taking care of her funeral services and other things. So I have not been following No S while helping my husband to take care of things. But now things are starting to go back to normal, so I'm trying to get back on the No S wagon. I have definitely been stress eating and making poor decisions in regards to food.
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by automatedeating » Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:11 pm
Ah Chanda hugs to you as you go through this time of grieving and supporting your husband, as well. Funeral preparations absolutely count as "S" days.
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8/14-24.5
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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