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.
Alright, so I'm starting a 40 day challenge to (hopefully) find a little freedom from food during the season of Lent. I'm going to borrow the X system I saw in another post.
Last week was CRAZY. We moved to a new house on very short notice, so my whole week was packing and driving. Some days I did well with food, and other days, not so much. I'm starting the challenge over again today.
I had a snack this afternoon for no particular reason. I didn't need it...I just mindlessly popped one of my daughter's orange slices in my mouth and then proceeded to eat two clementines, so only two green Xs for me. It is a relief to feel detached from a "mistake" like an extra snack. A few weeks ago, a snack would have led to another snack and then another (probably sweets).
I'm doing okay I guess. Most days have been 2/3 Xs. Last Friday was a total failure. I'm waiting for the time when it stops feeling so hard. I'm considering dropping S days for the rest of the challenge because it Mon-Weds I'm just white-knuckling it.
Sounds like you're doing well. Some people ramp up by doing just one No-S until they're rock solid with that, then they add the second No-S to the mix.
You may be doing something like that without doing it on purpose.
