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.
I tried NoS for a little over a week about a year ago. I was doing it to write a series of blog posts about it. I have now been back doing it, in earnest, for about 3 weeks. So far so good. I have had 1 red day and even then, I didn't throw in the towel.
I wanted to point out, though, that in the past 2 days through varied circumstances, I have found myself at buffets for the dinner meal--once at a pizza buffet and once at an Asian buffet.
What I discovered over the past 2 days was that it is possible to go to a buffet and just eat one plate of food. In the past, I would have never imagined that to be a possibility. I really like this approach to eating.
