Trying 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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rosie b
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Trying check in

Post by rosie b » Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:36 am

I'm back after a few failures. Thought I'd try daily check in to keep me on track. Started Friday and succeeded but it was hard. Saturday was an s day and boy didn't I have a blow out!! So disgusted with myself that I have forgone my second s day today and have made it an n day. Again really hard but successful. I don't know whether I'm hungry or just bored and empty. I need to develop a really positive outlook and to help me I'm reading the happy posts in the forum. Will post again tomorrow.
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Post by lpearlmom » Sun Nov 17, 2013 3:25 pm

Good luck & hang in there Rosie!

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Post by jw » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:35 pm

Welcome, Rosie -- it's OK to have a blowout on an S day! Just keep on going!
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Post by automatedeating » Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:57 pm

Rosie--So many people here have 'blowouts" as you call it, on the weekends. i would encourage you to (in the future) not impose N day structure on an S day! It takes a lot of mental energy, and the whole point is to have the S days be our release valve from the long-term energy expenditure of building N day habits. Be gentle with yourself, you have a beautiful name and beauty is not all about looks, anyway.
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3/18-25.6; 8/18-24.5; 10/18-23.8;
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Post by eschano » Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:55 pm

I completely agree with automatedeating. I'm a year and a couple of months in and still have some, although no longer all, wild S days but you know what - I lost over 10kg anyways. Don't worry about S days yet.

The other thing is, your tolerance to what you consider a blow-out goes down too.

Good luck!
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