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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Annapolis Princess
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by Annapolis Princess » Fri May 09, 2008 6:11 pm
I started the No S diet 3 weeks ago. It seems too easy and I feel like I lost a pound or 2 but I walk 2-3 miles a day or at least 30 minutes. 20 years ago I quit smoking and it took me six weeks before I felt I had kicked the habit and I have never gone back. So I think six weeks is a charm to become habit forming at anything - so far so good.
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OrganicGal
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by OrganicGal » Fri May 09, 2008 6:19 pm
I agree about the 6 week thing. I know 'they' say 21 days to form a new Habit. But if you've been running with bad habits for 20-30yrs, there is no way you're gonna change it in 21days....make a good solid start? Sure, but I think 6 weeks is more realistic too.
Creating and sustaining the No S habits are the only thing that will take me in the direction I want to go!
