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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Steven
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by Steven » Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:43 pm
Thur July 5th: 14 minutes of ANYTHING failure and No-S fail. Worked until 9 on Wed and stayed up to watch the local fireworks. I double-backed for an early workday (730) on Thursday. Tired and wornout, I went out for Mexican after work and stuffed myself with chips and Puerco Asado. And a large dos equis. And desert. After this, 14 minutes of ANYTHING (unless the ANYTHING was watching TV) was out of the question. Managed to complete all my "Todo's" though.
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by Steven » Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:11 pm
Saturday 7/7: todo failure. Just too many tasks added to my index card when I could be eating and watching tv. Next months habit focus should probably be Weekend Luddite...
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by Steven » Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:32 pm
Monday, July 16th - NoS diet failure. Went grocery shopping after work, and then stopped at the local chinese take-out place for dinner. I had just a plate, then about an hour or two later decided that I wanted something for desert so I made some pudding with ginger cookies for myself and my girlfriend.