Mummy_Helen
Silver Member
At class this week we were doing goal setting for the week, and my C said her goal was to have a resist list. In other words every time you see something that you WANT but walk away from, you write down how many syns it would have been. Then at the end of the day, or week you can tot up how many syns you would have had. She said that it motivated her to keep on track because she felt so much better that she made the choice NOT to have them.
I decided to do that as my goal as well, because the amount of times I see things and think "Ohhhh wow... but no" and walk away, I thought it would be interesting to see what my totals would have been if I'd lived my old life and had them.
Yesterday alone I saved myself over 100 syns!! Ok so part of that was we drove past KFC AND McDonalds, and we'd been into sainsbury's getting our shopping, but in the old days I would have gone into BOTH.... If I couldn't decide between a zinger tower or a Big mac, then I would have got both. While out I added the foods to my blackberry journal app, and when I got home, I checked the syns out. The 2 burgers and a medium fries alone would have been 72!!
I was so glad that I resisted, and I made a yummy low syn fajita instead last night.
I'm going tot up the total at the end of the week, but it's great motivation for me, because I know that I would have just got the lot before, and is making me realise the great choices I am making now. And even if i DO slip a little and go over my syns allowance, I can say "well at least I didn't have the other 5 million syns with it".
I decided to do that as my goal as well, because the amount of times I see things and think "Ohhhh wow... but no" and walk away, I thought it would be interesting to see what my totals would have been if I'd lived my old life and had them.
Yesterday alone I saved myself over 100 syns!! Ok so part of that was we drove past KFC AND McDonalds, and we'd been into sainsbury's getting our shopping, but in the old days I would have gone into BOTH.... If I couldn't decide between a zinger tower or a Big mac, then I would have got both. While out I added the foods to my blackberry journal app, and when I got home, I checked the syns out. The 2 burgers and a medium fries alone would have been 72!!
I was so glad that I resisted, and I made a yummy low syn fajita instead last night.
I'm going tot up the total at the end of the week, but it's great motivation for me, because I know that I would have just got the lot before, and is making me realise the great choices I am making now. And even if i DO slip a little and go over my syns allowance, I can say "well at least I didn't have the other 5 million syns with it".