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Decreasing Sweets Intake to Once a ... Star this Commitment
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cjcottrill commits to:
decrease the sweet intake to no more than once a week for at least 5 consecutive weeks. Sweet intake has been operationally defined as “the consumption of sugary foods that occur for any period of time” Sugary foods can include, but is not limited to: candies, cookies, cakes, ice cream, popsicles, animal crackers, pudding, chocolate, and pies. Any period of time is defined as any point during the 7 consecutive days of the week, beginning on Monday and ending that following Sunday.
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cjcottrill
October 13, 2018, 5:36 PM
This week started off great but did decline towards the middle of the week. One of my coworkers made her famous, homemade-from-scratch cake that I could not pass up after I had already had my once a week sweet intake on Tuesday. I was able to meet the next criterion of stars to earn my next reward; I only needed one this week. Thinking on a child’s level, if this was implemented for them instead, since I knew this was the last week of the contract and there was no way I would meet my next reward goal, I would not have motivation to even work towards this goal the rest of the week. This is why I think, even though it’s a contract, that changes need to be made available to avoid situations such as this. Also, I would assume that the contract would be longer than five weeks, but you never know! Each client is different.
cjcottrill
cjcottrill
October 6, 2018, 4:23 PM
I did it this week! This week was exciting because I reached the first incentive's worth of stars, so a smoothie it is for me. Unfortunately, I think the reason that assisted my success was getting salmonella halfway through the week. Per the doctor, sugar would only worsen the symptoms. Therefore, it was much easier to stay away from sweets this week as it would make me increasingly more sick. Either way, a success is a success. I look forward to enjoying the smoothie once I get over this. 
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cjcottrill
September 29, 2018, 2:53 PM
I'm not entirely sure what happened this week as to why the downfall still continued. Maybe it's a loss of hope, but it might be mixed with other things. This week had a lot of stressors that aren't usually there. Some of which, caused me unable to go to the gym. I have noticed in the past when I am not going to the gym and working out regularly, my eating tends to not be as healthy. It's almost the mindset of a "free week", or however long I don't go, because of an all or nothing attitude that is a constant battle of trying to defeat. Even though we're towards the end, next week is a new week and a new opportunity to create success for this goal and behavior change that has been developed.
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cjcottrill
September 22, 2018, 11:21 PM
I was determined this week to defeat the mindset of "well, you've lost the entire chance of gaining that big reinforcement." Unfortunately, that fell apart on the last day. I had a hard time this week staying motivated to earn the weekly reinforcement as opposed to the big one. On the last day of the week, I had a rather difficult and upsetting day. In the past, I have used this to cope with frustration and negative feelings. This, being a particularly rough day, I succumbed to the old way of coping. I feel that behavior contracts need to operate with replacement behaviors being taught or have them written within the contract to ensure a higher success rate.
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