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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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Titania
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Post by Titania » Thu May 12, 2016 5:50 pm

I am an 'old' S-er but changed my name because I feel like the identity and goals I had when I started are not the same as they are now. I'm getting 'up there' in years - and when I look back over the years, worries about my weight (even when it was 'normal') tarnish so many memories and run through every single period of my life.

I want to spend my remaining years Living with joy and exhilaration - not stressing, obsessing, worrying, measuring, weighing, counting - searching for an 'answer', feeling inadequate and worthless. Right now, I just want Simplicity, Stability and Sanity. (That 'S' is a handy letter!)

I don't know if it's possible to turn around the habits of 40+ years, but I know it isn't possible at all if I don't take the first step.
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lpearlmom
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Post by lpearlmom » Thu May 12, 2016 8:07 pm

Welcome back Titania! I had a similar experience. Originally I came to NoS desperate to lose weight. When that didn't happen fast enough, I left only to gain more weight. A few years later I just had had it with the constant obsessing and feeling out of control constantly.

When I came back (also changed my name) it was with the goal to make peace with food. I did that big time and after a year of that I was ready to make some changes with the what on my plate and very slowly (over 9 months) lost about 40 lbs.

So you have the right mindset. Habits first (that will lead to peace) and if weight comes off as a result, great! If not, you're still a million times better off than when you started, right?

So hang in there. Take it day by day!

GL,
Linda
:twisted: SW: 210 lbs
CW: 172
GW:160
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