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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boogbite
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by boogbite » Mon Nov 25, 2013 10:26 pm
First day doing this in a looooong time. Crazy to start the week of Thanksgiving? Perhaps. But I'm determined to get through three days before that first S day.
So far so good today.
Breakfast: Bagel and cream cheese, coffee
Lunch: Sashimi, white rice, miso soup, tempura, small green salad
Dinner: Slow cooker chicken tacos
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Start date: 11/25/13
Start weight: 163.2
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sweetaj
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by sweetaj » Mon Nov 25, 2013 10:30 pm
I am starting today also! I didn't even think about it being Thanksgiving week, but maybe that will work in our favor: we can ease into our first week with only 4 "N" days, and hopefully prevent the holiday weight gain at the same time.
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lpearlmom
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by lpearlmom » Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:26 pm
Welcome to both of you!
Boogbite: slow cooker chicken tacos sounds yum!
SW: 210 lbs
CW: 172
GW:160
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automatedeating
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by automatedeating » Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:03 am
The nice thing about starting now is that you get more s days during the week through the holidays!!
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8/13-26.3
8/14-24.5
5/15-26.2
1/16-26.9; 9/16-25.6
8/17-25.8; 11/17-26.9
3/18-25.6; 8/18-24.5; 10/18-23.8;
3/19-22.1; 10/19-21.8
6/20-22.5; 7/20-23.0; 9/20-23.6
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