My first day

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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MollyMouse
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My first day

Post by MollyMouse » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:19 pm

Found this diet in a "Womens World", it sounds to good to be true. I am programmed to think that regular food is the enemy. Starting out at 197lbs
Ate an orange and two slices of regular toast with Cheese whiz and a glass of soya milk for breakfast, certainly did not seem like a diet breakfast. I won't get lunch till around 1pm. Then dinner will be hard as I get off at 6:30 and I then meet my girlfriend for a movie at 7pm( on Tuesday and Thursdays) Can I count my big bag of popcorn as my dinner????
Looking forward to eating regular meals, and what I want... but I bet I will be longing for the weekend so I can have my treats.

franxious
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Post by franxious » Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:25 pm

Probably was a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway :)

Theoretically, yes, you could count the popcorn as dinner, if it fit on one plate. The problem is that you most likely didn't bring a plate into the movie theater and then pour one serving on the plate and eat only that.

Also, most often, dinner isn't eaten at the movie theater, but snacks are. To nail down the right habis, I would try to avoid dinners that aren't really dinners. However, you have just started and you had previously made the movie plans. So I wouldn't get too concerned about whatever happened. Now that you have started No-S, you can plan accordingly.

Jamiebf
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Welcome

Post by Jamiebf » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:08 am

No popcorn is a snack, but sure would be great for dinner right!! Welcome, I am on day 17 and I can tell you this is the best diet I have ever been on. Remember, The weight loss is secondary to the freedom of no more diet obsessing. Good luck.

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