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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.

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Day 38: SUCCESS
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I am at work on a Sunday. That stinks. My whole entire is family is at Sunday school while I am stuck at a desk doing ppw. I had a pretty large breakfast today because of the S day. I do have a couple more questions regard S day. Today for sweets I had half of a donut and half mm's along with 2 pcs of bacon and half of bagel. On the S days do you still watch your portion sizes and just allowed to eat a huge dessert or are their any restrictions. If anyone can answer that question I would really appreciate it. Did I mention that my husband has me pop a bunch of vitamins a day. I think that some of the vitamins do take away a lot of my appetite. Hope everyone is doing well today and is very successful. I have read some very inspiring stories on here. It really helps me a lot!!!! :D
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Personally at the moment I allow anything on S-days.

I think it'd help to be more restrictive though, I'm thinking about going back to the one-S-per-day thing I had working for a while.
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Oops, I seem to have entered a half marathon. Best start training...
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SO HUNGRY today.
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You are totally inspirational!!!!!!!
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I just wish I was thin as well... I seem to be holding the weight at the moment. Still, it's not going up.
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Day 49: SUCCESS

Caffeine addict at the moment. Still, at least it's not fattening.
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Wow! Inspiring to see those days fly by with success!! :D
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Very impressive. I think you're going to like the "habit calendar" tool I'm working on now. It's (also) very spartan.

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Ooh, interested
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Day 66: SUCCESS (weekends are easy)
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Day 69: SUCCESS

I'm planning a war on sugar even at weekends but I haven't quite worked out the details yet.
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Hi M!!
Cheers on all your Success days!!!!
Great stuff!!
How's life? :wink:
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Day 72: SUCCESS

Hi!

I'm ill at the moment, sore throat :(

Life is okay, weight is staying about the same, RSI is doing well.

Trying to get fit, but having problems with my feet.
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Day 73, 74: SUCCESS

S-is-for-sick-day, so I can have what I want today anyway.
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Day 76: SUCCESS

Think I'm starting to feel vaguely healthy again.
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Day 78: SUCCESS

I was so utterly starved yesterday, but I survived!
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You're so inspiring! Have a great holiday (S) weekend!!!
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Day 79: SUCCESS

Food experiment for the weekend: I'm thinking about going camping, so I've got some freeze-dried instafood to try.
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Day 80: SUCCESS

Instafood not wonderful but less miserable than I expected.

I may be inspiring, but I don't seem to be actually losing any weight :( If anything it's going up at the moment.
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Changing my own rules (I can't remember what I've said they are lately), I'm going to try regular no-s + giving up the chocolate at weekends.

This should hopefully allow me to eat some sensible luxuries at weekends without my usual habit of making myself sick on cheap poor quality chocolate from the cornershop.

Let's see if this works. Or if I remember...
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Day 85, 86: SUCCESS

Nearly had some chocolate before I remembered :(
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Day 91: SUCCESS

Had a bananana and an energy drink today, but I'd just done http://www.crisis.org.uk/page.builder/smr.html so I feel justified.
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Day 97: SUCCESS

I think I had a dream about failing.
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Day 98: SUCCESS
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I've had dreams like that -- probably more than realities like that, thankfully.

Good luck making it to triple digits!

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P.S. I finally finished that Habit Calendar I've been talking about. It might be particularly appealing to you, with your consistent but spartan entries.
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Day 99: SUCCESS

Thanks! I'll have a look.

I didn't get an email from your comment, perhaps my spam filter has got overenthusiastic again and started eating them.
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Day 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm off on holiday with no internets, so you probably won't hear from me for a week or so.
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Congratulations on reaching a 100 days! That is great! :D
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Go M!!!!!
100 straight days??
Blindin news!!

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Wow! Congratulations! I hope you get in some well deserved S-days in that holiday!
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I'm back! :)

But I've been eating chocolate :(

But I'm still technically on holiday. So undecided whether to count it as a success or failure.
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I had a major McDonalds related failure so I'm starting the count again.
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Day 1: SUCCESS!
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It's the weekend!
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