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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Zaria
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by Zaria » Sun Mar 20, 2011 9:25 am
Hello
Just thought I'd give this idea a try. I'm officially going to do the Daily Check In (beginning tomorrow: 3/21/11) to keep track of my first 21 days and see if it helps to log-in (rather than weigh-in
) I'd really rather weigh-in, though, because I have been conditioned to think that way. However, let's see if this old dog can learn new tricks!!! "Look out good health, here I come....."
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r.jean
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by r.jean » Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:12 pm
Welcome and I hope this works as well for you as it has for many of us!!
The journey is the reward.
Maintenance is progress.