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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sandysue
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- Location: Marysville, OH
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by sandysue » Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:24 pm
11/19/05, Saturday (Day #1) - SUCCESS
Breakfast:
oatmeal
banana
1 c skim milk
1/2 c orange juice
Lunch:
mexican pizza
3 chicken taquitos
diet pop
Dinner:
crockpot mac and cheese
1 c skim milk
Water: 7 cups
Multi-vitamin
Exercise:
15 min 80s workout (leg lifts, etc to 1980s music)
35 min walk outside (50 degrees)
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carolejo
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by carolejo » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:43 am
Hello SandySue!
Did you take the weekend as N days cos you were just starting?
Looking good, anyhow. Welcome to NoS.
C.
CaroleJo
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sandysue
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by sandysue » Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:59 am
Opps accidentally made this a new topic, but meant to post it here.
I consider this day a success since it was an "S" day.
Breakfast:
mexican pizza
1 c skim milk
apple
Lunch:
5" meatball sub
diet pop
salad
Snack:
light Hawaiian punch
Dinner:
meatloaf
green beans
Snack:
cookie
1 c skim milk
Water: 5 cups
multi-vitamin
Exercise:
40 min walk (59 degrees)
