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.
My husband and I were talking about Cincy Chili last night because they were showing people eating it during the game. My question to him was, do they put beans in the chile, or is it meat only?
"Self-denial's a great sweetener of pleasure."
(Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner")
the chili itself is meat only. The way you order it determines whether or not you get beans. "2-way" is spaghetti and chili, "3-way" is spaghetti, chili, cheese, "4-way" is all three plus chopped onions, and "5-way" has all four plus beans. 3-way is my favorite.
It wasn't easy either because i was in meetings all day long and there were all kinds of tempting treats on the table. I didn't touch a thing, drank tea and waited for lunch.
Breakfast: coffee with milk, homemade granola and plain yogurt
Lunch: turkey sandwich and side salad with a teeny bit of dressing
Dinner: TJ's mac and cheese mixed with broccoli, morningstar chik nuggets w/ ranch
Dinner was a little bigger than it should have been but i'm still in that "overload your plate learning curve" stage. all in all, a good day.
Green day! First day back to school with the kids, on school schedule. i lived through the recess stomach growls and talked myself through waiting for lunch.
Breakfast: coffee, milk, 1 egg+1 white scrambled, 1 piece of whole wheat toast and a mandarin orange
Lunch: Butternut squash ravioli lean cuisine, plum, a couple cherries
Dinner: 2 coney turkey dogs, green salad with vinagrette and blue cheese crumbles.
I'm going to have go redhere for a few pieces of bread and cheese that were fed to me at a meeting with my wedding photographer. he went so out of the way to make the snacks that i felt obligated. argh.
Breakfast: Granola with plain yogurt, coffee and milk
Lunch: 1 aidell's sausage, couscous, roasted cauliflower, handful of popcorn
Snack: bread with cheese, 2 beers, couple grapes
Dinner: 3 frozen waffles and syrup with 2 scrambled eggs.
