Janine's 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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Janine's Check In

Post by Janinestreet811 » Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:52 am

Hi. My name is Janine. I am happily married and a stay-at-home mom to 2 beautiful daughters, 8 years old and 18 months old.

I am 5 feet tall and at my highest non-pregnant weight of 172. It's embarrassing. I love to eat. I go back for seconds just because the food tastes good, not because I'm still hungry. I love sweets. I like to bake. Dangerous combination.

I would like to start being held accountable for this lifestyle change and get down to a healthy weight so I can work on having a 3rd child. I won't dare start a pregnancy at this weight.

That being said...

January 2 - Day 1: SUCCESS
January 3 - Day 2: FAILURE- I made a cheesecake. I had to have some.

January 4 - Day 1 - SUCCESS
January 5 - Day 2 - FAILURE - COMPLETE DISASTER - Chili's... queso & chips, cheeseburger, molten chocolate cake.... SMH!

We'll try this Day-1 thing again tomorrow.
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Post by MaggieMae » Fri Jan 06, 2017 3:29 am

Hi, Janine! Welcome. Man, that meal at chili's sounds delicious! You can do this. Eventually those red days will get fewer. I also love sweets and enjoy baking.

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Post by Allisonmeg » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:56 am

Welcome Janine, it's great to have you here! :)

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Post by Janinestreet811 » Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:45 am

Thank you for the welcome!

January 6 - Day 1 - SUCCESS

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Post by lpearlmom » Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:25 am

Yay!!!
:twisted: SW: 210 lbs
CW: 172
GW:160

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Post by Merry » Mon Jan 09, 2017 5:25 am

Welcome, Janine!

Don't feel like you have to keep starting over if you mess up--give yourself time to transition and try to have as many green days as you can. As you get used to No-S, I'm sure you'll be able to have more and more of them. You can do this!
Homeschool Mom and No S returnee as of 11-30-15.
2 years and counting on No-S.
29 lbs. down, 34 to go. Slow and steady wins the race.
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Post by Janinestreet811 » Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:31 pm

Thank you, Merry!

I was going to try to keep this past weekend as No-S days, but I decided against that as I feel I would have been sabotaging myself.

So...

January 7 - Day 2: S-DAY
January 8 - Day 3: S-DAY

Today, so far so good, but we shall see what the rest of the day brings. :D It's such a simple concept, it seems it should be so simple to handle.

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Post by Janinestreet811 » Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:41 am

January 9 - Day 4: SUCCESS

...and walked 2 miles. :D
January 1, 2017 SW: 172 BMI: 33.6

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Post by Janinestreet811 » Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:01 pm

January 10 - Day 5: SUCCESS

Some funny business at lunch though. I ate a half a sandwich and then a few pistachios, and then a couple of nachos from my kid's lunchable. All of which could have definitely fit onto even a small plate, but that's not how the meal was eaten. Nonetheless, still a SUCCESS in my opinion.
January 1, 2017 SW: 172 BMI: 33.6

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