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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Daphne
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by Daphne » Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:40 am
So, I took people's suggestions to go slowly and I decided to start on "seconds" for a month to get them under control.
SUCCESS today! I had a slightly enlarged dinner, but I didn't have seconds.
After I have seconds under control I think I'll tackle snacks. Hopefully, in three months I'll be having regular N days and try for the 21-day club. :)
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Girl Next Door
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by Girl Next Door » Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:05 pm
Woo-hoo! Congratulations!
Girl Next Door
"Don't I know you from somewhere?"
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Daphne
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by Daphne » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:06 am
SUCCESS on NO SECONDS perameter
Apple and handful of walnuts, cup of soy milk
Rice, veggies, egg beaters mixed in
Two meatballs, mixed veggies, handful walnuts
Went crazy on sweets though. But seconds are my goal this week.
