Misha's 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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Misha
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Misha's Daily Check-In

Post by Misha » Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:32 am

Hi! I'm a newbie -- a petite 51 year-young woman who is great at exercising but notoriously self-indulgent with eating and terrible at obeying diets. I have engaged in bad daily habits all my life (snacking, sugar, seconds) and would like to break those habits so I can lose the last 15 pounds before menopause eventually hits. After much research, this seems to be the most sensible, non-crazy-making "diet" plan out there which will actually address my core issues instead of focusing my attention on point counting, carb counting, etc.. So here I am! .... One day at a time!
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Post by jw » Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:58 am

Best wishes on the No S lifestyle, Misha -- this is a wonderful, supportive community and we're all trying to build better habits together!
"The second you overcomplicate it is the second it becomes the thing for which it is a corrective." -- El Fug
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Post by Kittykat150 » Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:19 am

Hi Misha,
Welcome and best wishes. We all seem to have the same goals in mind here: peace with food and enjoyable lasting weight control. I suggest you read some testimonials to bolster your courage. They are quite inspiring. Good luck. Happy to see you here!
Kat
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"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." -Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Post by Misha » Wed Aug 28, 2013 1:35 am

Thanks for the warm welcome, JW and KittyKat! I appreciate it.

My eating has been good yesterday and today --- 3 solid meals each day -- except for the fact that I had a few hershey kisses today and a couple yesterday. As I snacked on the bits of sugar, I rationalized it as a miniscule amount.

Neither choice was in response to an intense craving, but I'm so accustomed to pursuing the thought that says, "I want ..."

Looking back, it wasn't the chocolate I wanted as much as it was the desire to silence the discomfort the thought, "I want" creates in me! So I need to learn to observe the thought process and challenge it, rather than react to it. Reading the testimonials, as JW suggested, might be a good place to start.

Otherwise, I'm happy!
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