CarrieAnn's Start Again 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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CarrieAnn's Start Again Check-In

Post by CarrieAnn » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:25 pm

Hello! Haven't checked in since last weekend. Had a good first week, but slipped some last week. That's ok, I am starting fresh again tomorrow, Sept. 5th, as day 1. Grateful Deb, if you see this post , thank you for all that you have said and done on this No S journey! Becasue of you I am not quiting just because I messed up some last week. I will just keep plugging on. It's going to take longer than a week to change a lifetime of bad habits.

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Post by pangelsue » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:17 am

Good for you. We have all started over a number of times and Deb is right. It is a journey complete with successes and failures. The only trick is picking yourself up and starting over. I did No S successfully for several monthes and then slid for almost a month. I have been back for a week now and I know I am here to stay. There is nothing I would rather be doing and actually there was failure there too with less hope of maintaining. Good luck and hang in there.
A lot of growing up happens between "it fell" and "I dropped it."
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