User blog:Taldin/Just a short motivational thing -- on dieting with Habitica

It can be done.

Part of the magic of Habitica is that you create a routine with your Dailies, a reinforcement with your Habits, and a reminder with your To-Dos.

The three together can be pretty powerful if you stick with it - and appealing to your sense of achievement is what motivates me.

"Eat Healthier" and "Drink Water" meant going out of my way to eat apples daily and remembering to drink enough water every day.

"130 pounds" as a negative habit reinforced the days that I was over to try and eat lighter and healthier to get closer to my goal. It's dark blue, and it's stayed there for months.

"Eat Less Cheese" still does lots of damage (4.5 -- I adjusted the stat difficulty to Super Hard) any day I eat something with cheese in it (my diet requires me to lay off high saturated fat foods) and the day I had three slices of pizza took out a sizeable chunk of my health (but it was worth it... :9), but I got back on the routine with 'All right, no cheese until that turns back yellow again.'

The results after a year of this:

27% less cholesterol in my latest blood test, a grinning dietician, and advice to 'do more of the same'. 13 pounds lighter than the previous year, too. And I'm exercising more on top of it, which helps. Still have some things to work on, but I recognize that none of this would have been possible without Habits to keep me honest.

Very glad to have stumbled across this place, indeed.

Taldin (talk) 18:37, October 14, 2015 (UTC)