Chippie's 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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Chippie's check-in

Post by Chippie&co. » Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:18 am

Seems like I've been doing a weekly check-in lately.

Anyway, Its been a month and a week since we started no-sing, and some days are okay and some days are rough. A few days last week.... really tough, and this weekend..... well, let's just say Thanks goodness for S-days! Turns out it was the 'pms-thing'.

Started swimming about a month and half ago, and also working out. Now Swimming 2'ice a week and working out at least once, with a Pilates video thrown in here and there. I'm feeling better about myself, and maybe that's why I'm not having as many 'feeling fat days', which is motivating me to keep on trying.

Well, I think that there have been more successes than failures this week, and we're moving forward.

Bed-time!! Night all, stay safe, and sane!

Carmel

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