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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Beachgirl
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by Beachgirl » Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:17 am
1st day...
success!!!! It felt great to eat a full meal!! It felt great to not think about what I was going to eat all day long. I ate what my family ate...it was great
Beachgirl
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Beachgirl
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by Beachgirl » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:10 am
Day 2 Success!!!!!!
Day 3...well I needed an S day!! But I can honestly say that it was not nearly as bad as an S day as it would have been as a regular day last week! I feel really great about making it through the next 2 days.
Beachgirl