success!

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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Chotzinoff
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success!

Post by Chotzinoff » Sat Nov 25, 2017 4:09 pm

Reporting success. Just had my first green week. Yes, thanksgiving was an S-day, but that's yellow. No reds for the whole week. And yesterday I was really, really hungry for the first time. I ate breakfast at 5:30 am and by 10 was ravenous. It wasn't that hard to wait till 11:20, which I arbitrarily decided was a lunchy enough hour. I was ravenous again by 3 pm, but I drank a lot of tea and waited till dinner. Anyway, this is a victory.

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Post by gingerpie » Sun Nov 26, 2017 7:52 pm

congratulations on a hard-won victory. Keep up the good work.

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