It’s been a week since I last posted my habit statistics. I’ve been on a long weekend of origami folding and during the weekend I noticed how important tracking is to stick to your habit.
Until last Wednesday I was doing fine and not eating after 20.30h was becoming normal. I decided that I didn’t need to bring my tracking calendar, since I could easily remember that I would have 4 successes in a row. The origami weekend started on Thursday and Thursday evening flew by while meeting old and new friends.
On Friday evening somebody put a bar of chocolate on the table and invited all of us to take some. Without thinking I did and since it was good I ate more. Suddenly I realised that it was way past 20.30h and that I had failed at keeping my habit. The days before I conciously checked my watch before deciding I could eat something, but this was the old reflex kicking in. The same happened on Saturday evening. I was offered pastry and ate without thinking.
So how does tracking help? Well, had I tracked my successes and failures on my calendar the effort would be more in the forefront of my mind and I would have thought twice before eating after 20.30h.
Log:
Failures: 4
Partial success: 2
Success: 7
Days into the habit: 13
Total weight loss: 1.8kg
