Daily Dujour 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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Dujour71
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Daily Dujour Check in

Post by Dujour71 » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:34 pm

I just found out about this diet through Woman's World and I have to say it's exactly what I needed. It's been 2 days and I feel like the weight of the world is off my shoulders to just have three meals, no sweets, no seconds and no snacks! I had been stressed beyond belief trying to figure out how to diet and get a handle on what was looking like food addiction and making me crazy thinking about food all the time. What to eat, what not to eat, guilt and shame for eating too much or all the wrong things. In two days I've been able to see what I would've eaten if I hadn't found this, like the food off my kids plate, chips, candy bars, not only seconds but thirds! No wonder I'm at my all time highest weight. I think with no S there's some hope for me after all. I've got 50 lbs to lose and it can take however long it takes.

Thanks darlin,

Steph aka Dujour71
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Dujour71
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Day 4

Post by Dujour71 » Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:45 pm

Day three went really well. I told my mom about this diet and how cool it is. I'm going to weigh myself on Sunday and take a side view picture standing in the same spot and check out my change. My goal with this is have birthday cake on my birthday which is July 12th. I don't really want to have sweet for that long they tend to really throw me off. I'll have snacks or something on the S days. Last sunday I weighed 200 freaking pounds! And I'm only 5'2" for the love of God. My newly washed jeans are still beyond wearing. Oh well, next week will be different, I'm not loading up my plate here even from the start and I"m ok with that. I'm not starving at all! My mom is a skinny woman.
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Dujour71
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6lbs Down Yay!!

Post by Dujour71 » Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:27 pm

Almost 2 weeks and I'm doing really well. I've lost 6 lbs and I put on a pair of pants this morning that fit me again. I'm stoked about this! I wasn't comfortable about eating on the weekends and was really moderate. I did eat what I thought felt like a lot on one day and I felt more full than before I started this. This in itself is a miracle because I have in the past had a huge appetite. I'm also making an effort to be more active, not grazing all the time is making this much easier.
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