Comments on: Old habits

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:33:39 +0000

Yeah, injured my knee and it’s still not up to jogging. Or I’d still be doing it!

By: Croila

Croila — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:59:56 +0000

Oh no, you stopped the running did you? I always wondered how the he11 you kept that up, having stopped, started, and ultimately failed myself. I tried, I did, but whenever I was short on sleep or feeling a bit under the weather I’d excuse myself from going, saying “another day”, but of course another day never came.

I’m definitely going tomorrow lunch-time though. !

By: Mark Nichols

Mark Nichols — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:49:23 +0000

I managed to break an overeating/snack habit, and in the process lost 55 pounds. Better yet, I’ve kept that weight off for more than a year now.

The process was simple: I recorded every thing I ate in a spreadsheet, and looked up the caloric content and summed it up each day. After a week or so it was painfully obvious that I was consuming 1000-1200 extra calories per day in soda, ice cream (after dinner) and other snacks. By eliminating those calories from my diet (not dieting, mind you), I lost an average of two pounds a week. (1000 calories a day * seven days/week = 7000 calories/week.)

Do a search for the “Hacker Diet” for more details.

By: miles away

miles away — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:34:41 +0000

i have a travel habit and a word habit. Both of which are dwindling on the edges of strangeness, but have managed to curtail the travel habit at least for this weekend…

the need to get away is just sometimes overpowering!

By: Z

Sat, 03 May 2008 17:27:00 +0000

You lost 11lbs in a couple of months? Blimey, man, it took me 5 months of habit-breaking to lose that and I reckon I did extremely well – and it was twice the loss that the doctor had recommended in that time.

If I decide to break a habit, I tell myself that I don’t do *that* any more. It’s the strength of the decision, I find, that matters, I have to mean it. So it’s not that I don’t like chocolate, but as I don’t eat it any more, there’s no question of buying or eating it.

As for forming a habit, it’s the same thing. Thursday’s when I *always* go swimming, for example. Even if I did it for the first time last week. And I made a rule never to get in the car for less than a couple of miles – from here, everywhere’s either a mile or two, or at least nine.