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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JoyceC
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by JoyceC » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:52 pm
This is day 6 trying the no-s diet.
My goal for a while will be no desserts after dinner. I followed that all week except one night when I had a package of packaged mini cookies.
I am not going to beat myself up about it . Move on.
I am finding I am hungry after work between 2:00 and 7:00. I also get hungry a few hours after breakfast. I need to investigate what to do about this. I get tempted to go eat something but stop myself, not because I am being told to do this but because I want to try an do this. It will help my back so much if I lose weight. I can't think when i am in constant pain.
Next i need to work on portions.
"A pizza box is not a plate!" E. Reinhard