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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Phatpoodle
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by Phatpoodle » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:14 am
I started the NoS diet on Tuesday & today's my first S day. I waited all week to eat some KitKats & Oreos. I ate them, but the anticipation of waiting was a big let down. I guess I was expecting something more from my favorite treats. Like tasting better or fireworks or something. Yuck.
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dmarie710
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by dmarie710 » Sun Jun 27, 2010 2:54 am
No fireworks from Oreo's & kitkats? That's too funny. Welcome. Enjoy your S day's. Hope you figure out what'll hit the spot.
Denise
Denise
restart No S on 4/1 at 132#
goal is 120-123# doing vanilla NoS with Eat Stop Eat on Monday.
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Phatpoodle
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by Phatpoodle » Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:17 am
Think I'll try something different on Sunday. A hot fudge sundae comes to mind.
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batty
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by batty » Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:25 pm
The hot fudge sundae sounds like a better treat! Less "manufactured," more natural. I hope it satisfies!