Step by Step

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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LoriLifts
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Step by Step

Post by LoriLifts » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:51 pm

Look who's back in No S town!

I never really left, I just took a hiatus from blogging.

When I read my last check in blog, I noticed a troubling pattern. I would commit to a 21 day vanilla S challenge....fail....decide on a modification...fail..do vanilla S..fail....another mod...fail.

I was stuck in a rut of starting and stopping. I was frustrated and disappointed in myself. And my pants were tight!

I decided to take the pressure off and stop making goals. No more recording successes and failures ( I really missed my habitcal). No more weigh ins.

Guess what happened?

I began incorporating all 3 No S rules during the week. Without much of a mental struggle.

When I gave myself permission to throw away the rules, I gravitated toward them.

And of course I lost weight. Today I'm at 132 lbs, the lowest I've been all year.

My new blog will be about imprinting the No S rules into my life. I'm on the right track, I just need to stay consistent about maintaining my habits.

And if I lose a couple more pounds, that's good too.
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
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