Redbaerd's Daily 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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Redbaerd's Daily Check In

Post by redbaerd » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:41 pm

This is the thirty day experiment...
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Day One...

Post by redbaerd » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:44 pm

so far so good.

Cooking and late afternoon were the hardest.

Is there a difference between a snack and tasting the food you're cooking. I think I know the difference, but I think that its one of those grey areas where I could start down a slippery slope even while the start was wholly honest.

Being aware of where that line is -- between snacking and tasting -- requires exactly the kind of self-awareness & internal locus of control that I need / want to find through this experiment.
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Post by reinhard » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:05 am

Welcome!

As someone who likes to cook and does it every day, tasting can be tricky... you have to do it to make sure the food turns out alright, and yet it can degenerate into snacking.

I've found that just being aware of this issue has kept it from becoming a problem. Also the fact that I know if my tastes are too snacky I'll feel obligated to report it here, and I'd rather not have to do that.

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Post by gratefuldeb67 » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:57 pm

Hi Redbeard.
Welcome! I hope your experiment brings you happy results, whether that means weight loss or new control and awareness and consciousness about what you eat and how you eat.
Hopefully both!

As far as my opinion, I'd say, just make sure you don't have five tastes which are a tablespoon each!
haha..
Stick with a teeny little teaspoon and only have half!
And let's hope you don't have a full time job in a restaurant or something!
I actually think it's a tough one only if you are really famished because then you might just wolf down a whole plate of food during your tasting session! So just watch that you don't wait till you are insanely hungry :)
So what do you like to cook? :D

Peace,
8) Debs
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