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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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Post by mstevens » Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:23 pm

Day 59: SUCCESS

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Day 60: SUCCESS

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Day 61: SUCCESS

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Post by mstevens » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:28 am

Day 62: SUCCESS

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Post by mstevens » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:31 pm

Day 63, 64, 65: SUCCESS

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Post by mstevens » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:11 pm

Day 66: SUCCESS

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Day 67, 68: SUCCESS

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Post by mstevens » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:36 am

Day 69: SUCCESS

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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:26 am

Day 71: SUCCESS

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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:12 am

Day 76: SUCCESS

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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:00 pm

Day 78: the stitches are gone! I feel so much better.

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Post by mstevens » Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:50 am

Day 79: SUCCESS

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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:33 am

Still here! Might restart the count in an attempt to remotivate.

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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:32 pm

Survived so far today.

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Post by mstevens » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:50 am

Back for another go, starting today.

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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:34 am

Days 1, 2: SUCCESS

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Days: 3,4,5: SUCCESS

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Day 6: SUCCESS

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Day 7: SUCCESS

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Post by mstevens » Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:09 pm

Day 8,9: SUCCESS

This feels more "real" somehow than habitcal.

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Post by mstevens » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:33 am

Day 10,11,12,13,14: SUCCESS

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Post by mstevens » Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:22 am

Day 15,16,17,18,19: SUCCESS

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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:55 pm

Day 20, 21: SUCCESS

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Post 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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Post by gratefuldeb67 » Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:33 pm

Well done M!! :wink:
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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:43 pm

Failure yesterday, oops. Having trouble with handling this when eating out.

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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post 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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Post by mstevens » Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:10 pm

Day 2-6: SUCCESS

(can't fail on weekends!)

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