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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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L A
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Post by L A » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:50 am

I'm new. Always believed in just eating 3 meals a day but couldn't do it. Fed up with diets and worrying about eating out. I like the idea of having a dessert on 'special'days it takes the 'never' word away. Thank you for sharing your experiences. I feel real hope now. L A
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Post by KL » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:18 pm

Welcome L A.

I'm new too - still in the first week. For over 20 years, I ate meals without sugar, snacking or seconds - a 12-step program. But the difference was there was the word "never" for sugar, flour, wheat. So this concept is very refreshing for me.
"Everything is permissible for me - but not everything is beneficial...I will not be mastered by anything." 1 Cor 6:12
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