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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by atc55 » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:25 pm
I did fine until the evening. I ate 3 hot dogs in the living room then went to the kitchen and had 6 or 7 crackers with peanut butter an jelly. My exercise has been spotty at best,but I figured not to be too hard on myself while trying to control my eating. What do you guys think?
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by reinhard » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:42 pm
Well, not the best, but keep at it. Keep at it and eventually you'll succeed. Keep succeeding and you'll build habit that makes further success easy. It's hard at first, no question.
