The 30 days of the habit tracking are over. I’m still not sure whether it was a success or a failure. The weight loss I aimed at didn’t happen. In fact I’m now 1kg heavier than I was before starting this habit.
I also noticed that I really miss sitting down in front of the TV with some snacks. It’s the quickest and easiest way to relax a bit between all the tasks I do. By setting the time of not eating at 20.30h I basically deprived myself of all this. At some days I even had some crisps early in the day, just to not strike the day off as a failure. Wrong outcome. So I decided that I’ll stick to this habit but I’m allowed to make one exception in the weekend. Not during weekdays (except Friday) and only one time a week. That’s probably easier to keep.
Now for the new habit: I want to do more physical movement but I’m going to write down a more measurable goal. One that I can easier say I’ve reached or not. More in a later post.
Categories: personal productivity
It’s been a while since I last posted my statistics. With a few holidays running together here I suddenly had a whole week off. Time to relax and catch up on the backlog at home. Relaxing also meant that tracking my habit was forgotten. It had immediate effects: one day we started dinner after 20.30h. Does that count as failure or success? Another day I totally forgot about the habit and had some snacks after 20.30h. The day after I stepped in the ‘I-might-as-well’ trap: I might as well give in and have a bag of crisps.
Usually this last action would make me give up all together, but this time I decided that I might as well get back on the wagon and try again. By looking at my tracking calendar I found that the number of successes still outnumber the failures. Something I wouldn’t have known when I hadn’t tracked my progress.
I also realised, with the end of the 30 days in sight (marked by a line around the 30 days), I haven’t decided when it qualify as a success. I simply started and hoped for the best. Sure, there are numerous strategies to count: total number of successes vs failures, total number of consecutive successes, success rate in the last two weeks compared to the first two weeks. I haven’t really decided about it.
For now the stats:
Failures: 5
Partial success: 5
Success: 16
Days into the habit: 26
Total weight loss: 0.8kg
Categories: personal productivity
