fernandoavioneta
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kickin’ the sugar habit w a little ...
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Week 8 of 8
fernandoavioneta commits to:
$5 to team per incident; $5 to anti-charity per failed week
no cheat day per se but rather cheat food: semi-sweet pastry from coffee shop. max 1-2x week. Semi-sweet, defined: not the cinnamon roll, the dutch thingy, the chocolate croissant; yes the banana bread, blueberry muffin, for example. other than cheat food above, no chocolate, no sweets, no ice cream, etc. sweet fruits ok
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 fernandoavioneta
July 28, 2018, 3:30 PM
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| fak i forgot to submit my report last period but i succeeded. it really is 1 unsuccessful, 2 successful | |
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fernandoavioneta
June 26, 2018, 11:46 PM
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Kickin' the sugar habit framework Starting with a 2-month commitment contract via stickk.com. Let's leverage the site's functionality I've found useful in the past and add on top of that. Below how my commitment would look like. Important to note that our commitments don't need to be identical. We're all coming from unique places. 2nd noteworthy: please provide feedback on the below. If you read through it and you're like ah, too lenient! let me know! That's what we're here for. Commitment length: 2 months, initially Context: generally I eat healthy. I believe I am above the US & Mexico mean in terms of healthy eating and below the mean in terms of total sugar consumption, but I could do better. My main weaknesses: white chocolate, ice cream, ther kinds of chocolate. My main problem is not how frequently I consume sweets but how I consume them and the amount per sitting. I go from abstention to binging (say half a pint of ice cream in one sitting, the whole chocolate bar in minutes, etc). Now why is the how problematic? Something we touched on during our call Jordan, I cave when I am anxious/stressed for other life factors and while I am consuming it, I am not mindfully and happily consuming it but rushing through it and basically relieving anxiety and the craving, a la insert-name-of-any-drug. Stickk reporting cadence: weekly Referee: one can assign referees & supporters on Stickk. We would assign each other as referees and held each other accountable on and off platform Stakes: what has worked for me in the past on Stickk is a weekly monetary commitment to an anti-charity. I.e. on stickk you can select a Republican PAC if you don't share their ideology. I put $40 on the line for a month-long contract and each week I fail I lose $10; each week I succeed I get back $10. On another time, $5 went to a friend, my referee, and $5 to the anti-charity. Anyways, we can get creative. The point is that the amount is not insignificant as to not matter but also that the amount doesn't break our piggy bank and put us on the streets. That said, I propose (in the Jordan Fernando example): $5 go to Jordan every time I fail (per incident, not per week) and vice versa. I.e. if in the span of 2 months we both cave 6 times, net worth stays the same =) optional addition if we don't think $ exchange above is sufficient: plus $5 go to anti-charity every week I fail (so max of $40 to anti-charity during the 2 months) As I shared previously, stickk has worked for me ok/good in the past. I believe introducing this community+social+co-acountability+friendly competition aspect will result in great/excellent results. For example, when experiencing anxiety/cravings, I can send Jordan a pic of the dessert in front of me and be like "Dude, what do I do!? help me or you'll be gettin' $5 in the next 5 minutes" and Jordan will text back saying "Don't be weak. Plus that dessert looks like raw fish anyways", "Damn, you're right!", etc... Fernando's boundaries (please provide feedback here, esp. things in bold): no cheat day per se but rather cheat food: semi-sweet pastry from coffee shop. max 1-2x week. Semi-sweet, defined: not the cinnamon roll, the dutch thingy, the chocolate croissant; yes the banana bread, blueberry muffin, for example. other than cheat food above, no chocolate, no sweets, no ice cream, etc. sweet fruits ok (thoughts?) i.e. snacking on dates, bananas, apples, etc. I believe explanation is that those are natural sugars, higher glycemic index, as wholefoods they contain more than just sugar (fiber, etc.) With drinks (think pre-packaged cold brew, juices, smoothies) and nutrition bars (kind, zone, cliff) I need help refining the metric that can tell me 'yes you can consume this', 'no you can't'. I always look for grams of sugar on the label. My arbitrary metric in the past has been either grams of sugar constitute less than 25% of total grams OR total grams (in the drink, in the bar) are less than 10g. JFYI to aid the discussion, 2-min Google search on healthy g/sugar/day/person says ~30-35g for males, ~25g for females. That's all, help me define a metric = ) I don't consume refined white sugar or substitutes so this won't be an issue. I'll just keep at it. |
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