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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by mstevens » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:50 pm
Day 70: SUCCESS
Wisdom tooth out tomorrow, so I'll be on a liquid diet for a few days.
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by mstevens » Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:23 am
Day 72, 73: SUCCESS
Sick so I can eat anything, I'm not feeling up to solid food yet so I think if anything I'm undereating.
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by mstevens » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:28 am
Day 74: SUCCESS
Still not back on solid food yet, although I might try some pasta this evening if I'm feeling ambitious.
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by mstevens » Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:57 am
Day 75: SUCCESS
I managed solid food yesterday! Yay!
I should switch to habitcal, but the forum habit is too strong...
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by mstevens » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:20 am
Day 77: SUCCESS
Slowly regaining ability to consume solids. Stitches out tomorrow.
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by mstevens » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:00 pm
Day 78: the stitches are gone! I feel so much better.
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by mstevens » Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:50 am
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by mstevens » Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:11 pm
Day 80: SUCCESS
Teeth still sufficiently wrong that I'm counting these as SICK days.
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by mstevens » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:37 am
Day 81, 82, 83: SUCCESS
Still toothache, but increasingly compatible with solid food.
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by reinhard » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:09 pm
Congratulations on another impressive run!
I should switch to habitcal, but the forum habit is too strong...
This forum has been working great for you. Why mess with SUCCESS?
Glad your teeth are on the mend. I remember how nasty that procedure was (the anaesthesia was fantastic though, I kept on trying to chat with the oral surgeon throughout the operation).
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by mstevens » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:20 am
Day 84: SUCCESS
Hmm, notification email didn't arrive, I bet my spam filtering has got overenthusiastic again.
Bit worried about the teeth - been getting more painful for the last day or so, rather than less.
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by mstevens » Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:54 pm
I'm more or less healthy again now, but haven't managed to get back on the diet. This sucks.
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by mstevens » Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:33 am
Still here! Might restart the count in an attempt to remotivate.
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by mstevens » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:06 am
Well, on the downside I fell off the diet, on the upside I ran a half marathon.
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by mstevens » Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:06 pm
I think I shall have another go, starting tomorrow and switching to HabitCal.
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by reinhard » Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:23 pm
Well, that's a pretty big upside. Congratulations!
Hope you like the habitcal. Let me know what you think. I've got a ton of notes for version 2 and hope to have it out before Christmas.
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by mstevens » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:08 pm
Today I mostly have a cold.
I'm not sure what, but I think it should do something to make it more obvious the dates on the calendar are clickable. Possibly the hand icon when you mouseover them.
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by mstevens » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:43 pm
Having a bit of trouble with cookies and starters lately.
I think the habitcal is a little less motivating, because one red square is less scary than having to restart your count...
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by gettnbusy » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:12 pm
Tickle Tickle Tickle.... Are you here??? Hmmmmm????
Come back to me....
SMACK!
Oh wait, sorry, maybe I was dreaming again.... Anyway HI!!
~I'm still not perfect~
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by mstevens » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:48 am
I'm still around! Just using habitcal more these days.
I claim exemption from the diet yesterday because I was on a (happily pointless) trip to A&E.
(Hmm, not sure that translates for americans, but not sure what the american is...)
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by mstevens » Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:47 pm
I was going to restart No-S today, but I'd already failed by lunchtime. Better luck tomorrow!
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by mstevens » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:32 pm
Survived so far today.
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by mstevens » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:50 am
Back for another go, starting today.
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by mstevens » Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:12 am
Day 1 SUCCESS
Day 2 FAIL
Today is the new Day 1
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by mstevens » Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:09 pm
Day 8,9: SUCCESS
This feels more "real" somehow than habitcal.
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by mstevens » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:02 pm
I've not checked the weight, but I'm sure my shirts feel tighter since I started no-s again.
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by mstevens » Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:52 pm
Day 22, 23: SUCCESS
Tried the scales this morning, a few kg lighter, although still within the day to day variation so it doesn't prove anything.
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by gratefuldeb67 » Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:33 pm
Well done M!!
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by mstevens » Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:07 am
Thanks.
Day 24, 25: SUCCESS.
I'm not counting my chickens, it's still well within the variation I'd expect weighing myself from day to day.
Off to have Japanese food tonight, which I suspect will come on many tiny plates.
Will attempt to find a dish that comes as one dish, or work on my virtual plating skills.
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by mstevens » Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:43 pm
Failure yesterday, oops. Having trouble with handling this when eating out.
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by mstevens » Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:18 pm
Day 1,2,3,4: SUCCESS
Weight back around where I started.
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by mstevens » Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:58 pm
Aha, I knew I'd still be here somewhere.
Pondering dieting again, not decided what to do about it.
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by Kathleen » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:14 pm
I'm curious: did you continue to restrict eating chocolate on S Days?
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by mstevens » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:20 pm
I stopped doing it after a while, but it does work well!
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by mstevens » Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:38 pm
I know I haven't posted in a while, but...
Day 1: SUCCESS
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by mstevens » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:43 am
Day 2: FAIL
Possibly my lunch was too small. Or I just lack willpower!
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by mstevens » Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:06 pm
Day 1: SUCCESS
again!
The place where I failed was a very poor Indian restaurant I have vowed never to visit again.
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by mstevens » Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:10 pm
Day 2-6: SUCCESS
(can't fail on weekends!)