What the hell!

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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Tessytwinkle
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What the hell!

Post by Tessytwinkle » Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:42 pm

Today I failed badly. I am going to hospital tomorrow for significant test results. Felt very low. Managed to refrain from failing by not buying snack when out. Even went in shop and came out again. Felt really pleased with myself. Then on the way home blew it. Sleepwalked into shop bought packet biscuits ate them all. Got home had mince pies from freezer sugary drink and failed completely. Then felt disgusted and depressed with myself. I have just read the podcast about what the hell attitudes and the need for publicly owning up when you fall down. So i fess up. Old comfort habits die hard eh!!!!

Got to do better tomorrow difficult day for me but want to at least be in control of something! I am longing for this to work.
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