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 is my first post, but I have been reading the forums for ages. I have tried following No-S countless times, but have the unfortunate tendency to give up whenever I have a bad day and run back to the comfort of calorie counting. But guess what? I HATE calorie counting!! No-S just makes sense and I know it's something I can continue with for the rest of my life...I just have to get the habit in place. I'm hoping posting a daily check in will help me do that. If I mess up, that's OK! I will keep going!
Welcome MaybeSparrow. Good luck with stickig with No S, you'll see how we all mess up occasionally. Perfect is boring, trying is what life is really all about
Day 2: Fail--a few bites of ice cream and a piece of licorice. However the silver lining is that I didn't use that small failure as an excuse to throw the rest of the day away.
Not throwing away the rest of the day after a fail, especially so soon into the plan is something to be proud of, especially with following it up with a successful day straight afterwards. Well done.
