2 Habits
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2 Habits
Hi there. Found this site today and it will fit perfectly with my 2 new habits. Habit one is from FlyLady to keep my sink shiny every night. Doesn't sound too hard - but it kinda is for me. Second habit is to eat healthy. Yes I need to lose weight, but that's a by-product of healthy eating right?
I've already successfully implemented 2 other habits that are on autopilot (I don't even think about them!) One is to make my bed every day when I get up. The other is to pack my lunch every day to take to work.
We'll see about adding walking when the weather gets a little warmer (below zero here today!) and I've been successful at keeping these 4 habits going for a while.
Set up HabitCal for my 2 new habits and am ready to roll!
Diana
I've already successfully implemented 2 other habits that are on autopilot (I don't even think about them!) One is to make my bed every day when I get up. The other is to pack my lunch every day to take to work.
We'll see about adding walking when the weather gets a little warmer (below zero here today!) and I've been successful at keeping these 4 habits going for a while.
Set up HabitCal for my 2 new habits and am ready to roll!
Diana
Start 1/23/14, 5'10" 223 lbs, Age 46
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Day 2
So yesterday and so far today have been successes. I got up a little earlier and made me and the hubs oatmeal with bananas. I'm usually a breakfast skipper or else its a quick bowl of cereal (the sugary kind ). The oatmeal "stuck to my ribs" and I wasn't hungry until lunch. Yay! Dinner is in the crock pot and will be ready when I get home. Last night my son's girlfriend stopped by with a candy bar for me and I thanked her and put it in the cupboard for a treat on my first S day. Go me!
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Just as point of information: it is very possible to get and stay heavy eating "healthy." I have lived in countries that had virtually no junk food, but there were plenty of chunky people. It was not considered a cultural virtue to eat moderately and stay slim. Slim and heavy people of both sexes were considered desirable.
Also, it is possible to be overweight and healthy.
For me, the value of moderation is the way it usually lets me feel comfortable without being stuffed.
This lifestyle has let me feel the most pleasure all around of almost any way I have lived. I think even if I lived where overweight were more accepted, I would still stick with No S. I hope you stay the course and get the bennies.
Also, it is possible to be overweight and healthy.
For me, the value of moderation is the way it usually lets me feel comfortable without being stuffed.
This lifestyle has let me feel the most pleasure all around of almost any way I have lived. I think even if I lived where overweight were more accepted, I would still stick with No S. I hope you stay the course and get the bennies.
Last edited by oolala53 on Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
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There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)
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oolala53 --- I think that THIS is the secret to your own personal dieting success.oolala53 wrote:This lifestyle has let me feel the most pleasure all around of almost any way I have lived.
I think even if I lived where overweight were more accepted, I would still stick with No S.
BrightAngel - (Dr. Collins)
See: DietHobby. com
See: DietHobby. com
Yes, I agree. I think it's true of any behavior change, especially eating, because eating is so central to life and food is so reinforcing for most.
People who maintain losses have to come to peace, for the most part, with the tradeoffs. The tradeoffs have come to seem less like sacrifices and more like just what you do. The resentment factor drops enough so that their eating life just is what it is.
People who maintain losses have to come to peace, for the most part, with the tradeoffs. The tradeoffs have come to seem less like sacrifices and more like just what you do. The resentment factor drops enough so that their eating life just is what it is.
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)
Age 69
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
1/21-23
There is no S better than Vanilla No S (mods now as a senior citizen)
First "S" days
Well I was a little nervous about my first "S" days this weekend. Is that weird? I was afraid I would undo everything that I had done during the week. Also since I was home instead of at work I was afraid I would binge eat all weekend.
I did very well! I had a Large Coke on Sunday and a candy bar on Saturday. Other than that I didn't do anything too funny. I know I could have. But I didn't need to and I didn't want to. And I didn't feel deprived. I think knowing I could if I wanted to was enough. It's when I can't have something and know I can't for a long time to come, that I fail.
So. Yay me! I can do this. It's not rocket science. It's not depriving. And it's working! (I'm actually down 3 pounds since 1/23.)
I did very well! I had a Large Coke on Sunday and a candy bar on Saturday. Other than that I didn't do anything too funny. I know I could have. But I didn't need to and I didn't want to. And I didn't feel deprived. I think knowing I could if I wanted to was enough. It's when I can't have something and know I can't for a long time to come, that I fail.
So. Yay me! I can do this. It's not rocket science. It's not depriving. And it's working! (I'm actually down 3 pounds since 1/23.)
Start 1/23/14, 5'10" 223 lbs, Age 46
Re: First "S" days
Not weird at all. I think a lot of folks deal with that S day nervousness.DianaS wrote:Well I was a little nervous about my first "S" days this weekend. Is that weird?
So. Yay me! I can do this. It's not rocket science. It's not depriving. And it's working! (I'm actually down 3 pounds since 1/23.)
Well done! Congratulations, and continued success!
All you can do is all you can do.
Food doesn't make you fat. Too much food makes you fat.
Food doesn't make you fat. Too much food makes you fat.
First 10 days
My first 10 days are done. I'd call it successful.
No S = 9 successes out of 10 days
Shiny Sink = 8 successes out of 10 days
Moving this thread over to Daily Checkin thread moving forward.
No S = 9 successes out of 10 days
Shiny Sink = 8 successes out of 10 days
Moving this thread over to Daily Checkin thread moving forward.
Start 1/23/14, 5'10" 223 lbs, Age 46