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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cee4fsu
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by cee4fsu » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:22 pm
I started today. So far everything is good.
I'm hungry, but I'm about to go to lunch. I exercised for 30 minutes this morning. I guess we will see how it goes.
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sweetsong32
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by sweetsong32 » Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:32 pm
Welcome Carrie!!
Hang in there...I hear it gets a little easier...and that the first week is the hardest.
I am on day 3. It has been ok. THe first day I was VERY hungry. The second day was not as bad, and todaywas even better.
