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.
Me: 53 years of age. KIT are my initials not my name. Mum of 3, mostly all grown...2 coeliacs and 1 anaphylactic! So food has been an issue for the last 24 years! Hubby and I looking forward to a child free home in the next few years! Live in New Zealand. Have lost 40kg successfully and maintained for 3 years.....now creaping back up and wish to stop the rot now. Since losing weight have taken up trail running. Have run a marathon and an ultra as well as a number of mountain races.
Monday: Shopping day, so I have eaten a a huge filling bowl of porridge.
I will report in tonight to say how the day went. I am aiming for 3 plates a day plus 1 dose of healthy exercise!
Monday.
Breakfast: porridge
Lunch: left over homemade curry and rice from last night
Supper: pasta with caramelised onions, sweet peppers, and mushrooms.
Lunch: 2 slices homemade sourdough with hummus, tomatoes, and lettuce.
Supper: homemade cottage pie
Exercise: 7 km run, beach and estuary
Minor victory over habit. I was really hungry going into supper, and wanted seconds. But I didn't have any and it was fine. In fact it is now early Wednesday morning and I am still fine. Habit only. Once the food had a chance to hit my stomach, it was sufficient.
Breakfast: porridge
Lunch: left over cottage pie (a HUGE plate full, I was hungry after my run)
Supper: Dahl and rice.
Exercise. 2 hours running in the hills with Bonnie. Laters Spur, Mitchels track circuit. I had nothing but water on the run, though I carried food just in case. I think more than 2 hours running in the hills I will need to eat though. Thankfully my long run is normally on a Saturday!
Thursday....this is daughters 21st birthday....and therefore an S day I am sure!
Breakfast porridge.
Lunch: rolls and salad
Supper....well, there was more than 1 plate of food, mostly Indian, bajis, samosas, pakora, plus various dishes, and popadoms and naam ....and cake...and ice cream! Yum!
lpearlmom wrote:
That sounds absolutely lovely to me considering it was 107 today and humid to boot!
And I have spent most of today huddled in front of a warm fire. I ran 10km this morning in driving sidewards freezing rain straight off the sea.....
We need to blend this weather out!
Saturday. S day ( and just as well really....)
Went a bit silly. No exercise, hubby took dog out. Ate 3 meals plus about 3 real snacks on plates, a pot of nuts and seeds, 2 dark chocolate bars.....a hand full of this and just a bite of that.....
And felt bloated and lousy at the end of the day. Hum....can we learn from this!?!
Sunday. S day. Started well, 10km run on beach. Probably burnt some extra calories due to the cold!
Breakfast, porridge.
Lunch rolls, avocado and salad.
No snacks as yet, but planning a sweet after dinner tonight.
