O43 Check-in

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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Over43
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Re: O43 Check-in

Post by Over43 » Mon Jan 03, 2022 8:51 pm

ladybird30 wrote:
Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:41 am
A few more science major who also know some history wouldn't hurt either.
I agree!
Bacon is the gateway meat. - Anthony Bourdain
You pale in comparison to Fox Mulder. - The Smoking Man

I made myself be hungry, then I would get hungrier. - Frank Zane Mr. Olympia '77, '78, '79

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Re: O43 Check-in

Post by Over43 » Mon Jan 03, 2022 9:01 pm

I was reading through posts and thought I might take swing at setting up the calendar right here:

1/1 S Day
1/2 S Day
1/3 Fail I should have started tomorrow sans Hershey Bar. Total Gym full body workout.
1/4
1/5
1/6
1/7
1/8 S Day
1/9 S Day
1/10
1/11
1/12
1/13
1/14
1/15 S Day
1/16 S Day
1/17
1/18
1/19
1/20
1/21
1/22 S Day
1/23 S Day
1/24
1/25
1/26
1/27
1/28
1/29 S Day
1/30 S Day
1/31

Boy that is a long month. My least favorite.
Bacon is the gateway meat. - Anthony Bourdain
You pale in comparison to Fox Mulder. - The Smoking Man

I made myself be hungry, then I would get hungrier. - Frank Zane Mr. Olympia '77, '78, '79

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Re: O43 Check-in

Post by ladybird30 » Tue Jan 04, 2022 1:13 am

Sounds like it has been a great present.

All the best to you and your family for 2022.
Three meals a day - not too little not too much, but just right

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Re: O43 Check-in

Post by oolala53 » Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:45 am

Work it, Baby! Strength preserves youth.
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23

There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)

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