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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by boogbite » Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:08 am
Day 1 on No-S:
A success!
Breakfast: coffee with milk, 1 piece of toast with avocado and 2 scrambled eggs.
Lunch: triscuit crackers with tuna salad and cherry tomatoes.
Dinner: turkey burger with green salad, blue cheese crumbles, and vinagrette. + 1 glass of wine.
No exercise.
Note for day 2: You need to drink more water.
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by Jammin' Jan » Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:40 pm
Good start!
"Self-denial's a great sweetener of pleasure."
(Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner")
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by boogbite » Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:50 am
thanks Jan!
Day 2: 1/5/10, a success.
Breakfast: 1 egg with toast and avocado
Lunch: grilled mahi, side salad, rice
Dinner: potato leek soup with bread and butter.
slight bobble: half a can of coke with dinner.
glass of wine out for Pub Quiz.
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by boogbite » Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:17 am
Not a success. Red day because of snack before dinner.
Breakfast: Cereal and milk, coffee.
Lunch: 6 inch turkey sub, baked chips, unsweetened iced tea.
before dinner: 4 crackers with cheese
Dinner: cincinnati chili with 1 hot dog, side salad. 2 glasses of wine.
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by boogbite » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:05 am
1/7/10
Back on track! great day today.
Breakfast: bowl of cereal with milk
Lunch: 2 turkey chili dogs
Dinner: 2 eggs, turkey sausage, frozen waffles.
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by Dandelion » Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:52 pm
Good going
What is Cincinnati chili?
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by boogbite » Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:41 am
@ dandelion: Cincy chili is chili on top of spaghetti noodles with cheese on top. very yummy, we make ours with ground turkey.
Day 5 was red because i nibbled on a few things before dinner and had a bit too much to drink. not terrible but could have been much better.
Breakfast: cereal and milk, coffee
Lunch: falafel
Dinner: bowl of veggie and rice soup.
snacks: 2 crab cakea, a couple bites of pieces with cheese. wine.
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by boogbite » Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:43 am
Even though it was an S day i was determined to make up for Friday. I'm going to consider today a green day.
Breakfast: bagel with cream cheese, oj, coffee.
Lunch (ken's bbq): Boca burger with salsa on baguette, green salad. 2 light beers.
Dinner: bowl of homemade granola with plain yogurt.
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by Jammin' Jan » Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:01 pm
My husband and I were talking about Cincy Chili last night because they were showing people eating it during the game. My question to him was, do they put beans in the chile, or is it meat only?
"Self-denial's a great sweetener of pleasure."
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by boogbite » Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:42 pm
the chili itself is meat only. The way you order it determines whether or not you get beans. "2-way" is spaghetti and chili, "3-way" is spaghetti, chili, cheese, "4-way" is all three plus chopped onions, and "5-way" has all four plus beans. 3-way is my favorite.
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by boogbite » Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:40 am
A pretty good S day, i had snacks sometimes.
Breakfast: coffee with milk, bagel and cream cheese
Lunch: arroz non pollo
snacks: triscuits and hummus. 2 chocolate covered apricots & one lindt chocolate ball
Dinner: 1/2 turkey and cheese sandwich, veggie and rice soup. 1 cocktail.
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by boogbite » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:13 am
Day 8 on NoS, totally green!
It wasn't easy either because i was in meetings all day long and there were all kinds of tempting treats on the table. I didn't touch a thing, drank tea and waited for lunch.
Breakfast: coffee with milk, homemade granola and plain yogurt
Lunch: turkey sandwich and side salad with a teeny bit of dressing
Dinner: TJ's mac and cheese mixed with broccoli, morningstar chik nuggets w/ ranch
Dinner was a little bigger than it should have been but i'm still in that "overload your plate learning curve" stage. all in all, a good day.
Start date: 11/25/13
Start weight: 163.2
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by boogbite » Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:39 am
Day 9 * 1/12
Green day! First day back to school with the kids, on school schedule. i lived through the recess stomach growls and talked myself through waiting for lunch.
Breakfast: coffee, milk, 1 egg+1 white scrambled, 1 piece of whole wheat toast and a mandarin orange
Lunch: Butternut squash ravioli lean cuisine, plum, a couple cherries
Dinner: 2 coney turkey dogs, green salad with vinagrette and blue cheese crumbles.
Exercise: 30 day shred level 1
Start date: 11/25/13
Start weight: 163.2
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by boogbite » Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:03 am
Day 10 * 1/13
Green
Breakfast: smart ones quesadilla with satsuma mandarin, coffee and milk
Lunch: sesame chicken and noodles, nectarine
Dinner: Black beans and basmati rice, guacamole, sour cream, a handful of chips
Start date: 11/25/13
Start weight: 163.2
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by boogbite » Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:01 am
Day 11 * 1/14 (only 1 more day before the weekend! i'm ready for some chocolate but determined to wait it out...)
Green 
Breakfast: homemade granola, plain yogurt, coffee with milk
Lunch: Big caesar salad, 1 potato wedge (victory: did not eat the oily, overcheesed pesto sandwiches served at my training!)
2 walks! 20 minutes each. Downtown watsonville and blue ball park.
Dinner: couscous, aidell's sausage, roasted cauliflower. will likely have a glass of wine tonight.
Start date: 11/25/13
Start weight: 163.2
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by boogbite » Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:55 am
Day 12
I'm going to have go red here for a few pieces of bread and cheese that were fed to me at a meeting with my wedding photographer. he went so out of the way to make the snacks that i felt obligated. argh.
Breakfast: Granola with plain yogurt, coffee and milk
Lunch: 1 aidell's sausage, couscous, roasted cauliflower, handful of popcorn
Snack: bread with cheese, 2 beers, couple grapes
Dinner: 3 frozen waffles and syrup with 2 scrambled eggs.
Start date: 11/25/13
Start weight: 163.2
