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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Last Martian
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by Last Martian » Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:44 pm
Day 1 S-day
Once more into the breach...
Rules:
- I'm only counting special S-days but I'm fairly generous about those.
- I'll also allow myself healthy snacks.
And that's it for now. Exercise resolutions to be added later.
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by Last Martian » Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:50 pm
Day 2 Sunday Success
Day 3 Monday Failure
Oops.
It wasn't a particularly big breach, but da rules is da rules.
I do know how it happened, though. Took an extra light lunch and then got hungry. Moving on...
