-HOPEFUL- Daily 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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-HOPEFUL- Daily Check In

Post by -HOPEFUL- » Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:11 pm

Tues. 12/7 S Day.

(On a side note, getting used to no sweets is my most difficult thing)
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Post by gk » Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:07 am

I think giving up sweets (for the week anyway) is quite the challenge, too.

Hang in there.....it will get easier. I've only been on this diet since 11/8/10, and the difference in my eating choices and pattern is nothing short of a miracle. :)

Try eating fruit at the end of your meals. A month ago I didn't even like fruit, and now it satisfies my sweet tooth and I have actually even started enjoying it!
SW (as of 3/25/13): 172 lbs.
CW: 171 lbs.
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