Storm's 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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Storm's check-in

Post by storm fox » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:09 am

Start:
Monday 3/19/07
Start Weight-190 lb

3/19/07
Success!

3/20/07
Success!

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Post by storm fox » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:54 am

3/21/07
Success!

3/22/07
Success!

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Post by storm fox » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:40 pm

3/23/07
Success! And onward toward the weekend!

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Post by storm fox » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:44 am

Catching up to 4-1-07
Still going strong. I'm not bothering to fill in for last week, but the habit is already getting entrenched. Weekends, I have a hard time with, but I'm working on that.

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Post by storm fox » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:35 pm

I'm still on, and kept to it through the flu. I've been really busy, and those simple rules have still kept me in line and kept me losing fat. I think I've actually put on some muscle, though, which should further help fat burning.

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