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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LaVonne
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by LaVonne » Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:05 pm
Today is Sunday night, October 2. It is a good night to start. Here's more than hoping that I can take one day at a time and succeed at learning how to eat simply, moderately and healthily. I want to learn how to be comfortable with food and with myself in relationship to food.
Let's finally do it!
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Who Me?
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by Who Me? » Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:09 pm
You can do it!
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snapdragon
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by snapdragon » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:33 pm
It's well worth it! Welcome!
Starting weight 185
Healthy BMI 139
Willingness without action is fantasy
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Pangelsue2
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by Pangelsue2 » Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:22 am
Welcome. Enjoy the ride.
I'm baaaack.