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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karepot
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by karepot » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:34 pm
SUCCESS 
This is hard! I am on my second day of the diet. Yesterday went pretty well, but I was really struggling yesterday evening. I'm excited to start something that will help me get healthier. My BMI just creaked over the healthy limit. I'm in grad school and working. I don't have time to lack the energy I feel I am lacking because of these extra pounds. I'm ready to do something about it.
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pangelsue
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by pangelsue » Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:32 pm
It will get easier and I think eventually you will learn to like feeling lighter and less full. Try it for the 21 days and I think habit will start to set in. Welcome.
A lot of growing up happens between "it fell" and "I dropped it."