Go Streaking with Streak.ly!

One of the things I’ve discovered over the last 16 months of using and running Lose It or Lose It is that sometimes, just showing up every day is enough to move you forward. I have been thinking about starting a Lose It or Lose It Lite where the only goal is to weigh yourself every day and if you don’t, the site would reveal your weight to THE WORLD. It is a similar concept to the existing Lose It or Lose It site, but requires no money. I think that knowing is half the battle in weight loss and many of the people that have gained weight over time did so because they had no idea they were gaining weight, I know that was my problem.

A few months ago Zack Kitzmiller (his LIOLI profile) did a round of Lose It or Lose It and through that, I discovered one of his sites called Streak.ly. Basically, you set up a list of things you want to do every day and try not to break the streak. I added “Weigh in” as one of my things* and have tried really hard not to break that streak (longest one was 109 days!). It helped me with my Lose It or Lose It goals because I knew on a daily basis how I was doing and how something I ate effected my weight. No longer would I show up on weigh-in day and be devastated that I was nowhere near where I needed to be.

So, long story short. If you are trying to accomplish some big goal, try using Streak.ly to help you do some little part of it every day. If you happen to be trying to lose weight or keep from gaining weight, add “Weigh in” to your list of things to do every day, because knowing is half the battle!

* The others are “Eat breakfast”, “Work on a side project”, “Exercise”, and just today “Write for ten minutes”.