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.
This will be my nosdiet daily progress check in. My goal is to stick with it with no failures for these three weeks before new years. I think it'll be fitting to start 2012 having already gained a good habit.
I've gained weight after I graduated and started working because I stopped eating healthily and exercising and started sitting on my butt and eating junk all the time. I am not overweight and my bmi is in the healthy range, and yet I feel bloated and like crap plus the water retention and acne issues I never had before.
I will admit that I am counting calories. Mr. Reinhard says the nosdiet is compatible with other methods and so I don't think it's a problem. I prepare my food for the week to come on Saturdays and that's when I count calories once and for all for the week to come, so I'm not bored with counting calories everyday.
No sweets and no snacks are my focus, no seconds is not a problem for me.
Today at work I was given a small peice of pastry. Though I wasn't hungry I still felt like I wanted to eat it, and normally I would've, but the "predisapproved" concept really saved me and so I just passed it over
Today I was able to fend off deliciously smelling manakish when offered at work. I'm normally seldom offered anything so I'm not sure why the ispiration to share has started as I started the nosdiet
No matter, I don't plan on failing, and the daily check in is a tremendous help for me
Erada...You did it. You conquered your day despite your emotions. Those days are the hardest! I had one of those yesterday. I ate fine, but all I wanted to do was sit down with a bowl of ice cream & eat it all. This morning I feel encouraged & ready to make the rest of the week a lovely shade of green. Emotional eating is so hard to beat. Congrats on winning the battle yesterday!
janie
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
Winnie the Pooh
Hey Jaine, thanks! I think having to post my results here is helping, as well as the extremist moderate and "pre-disapproved" points of view. Something else that is helping me is the thought that time will pass anyway whether I'm happy or sad, so why not do my best? I don't know if it's very clear what I'm trying to say here
Building new habits is difficult, that's for sure. But I am determined to pass these weeks till the end of december 2011 with no failures.
You ARE making sense! This is s great place to write your thoughts & figure out which ones are tripping you up and which ones are positive, helpful ones.
You're doing great....you really are.
Have a great day...
janie
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
Winnie the Pooh
Though I am doing so well with my noesdiet, I am not doing so well with the other things I've planned for myself. Just need to get myself together and stop being so afraid of failure!
I failed thursday, so my winning streak came to an end, sadly. I've overdone it in the exempt days as well, but they are exempt for a reason, so I am not really sweating it.
