For those of you who suffer from self control... a new beta

**After reading this, if you want to join, please send me a message! You do not need to post here that you want to join. I am only accepting the first 10-15 people for this month. In December I will accept more if there is active involvement and people are interested-- For now, this is mostly just a test run for November**

Hello, if you suffer from self control like I do, I'm hoping this will help all of us. I realized the past few weeks that I really need to take control of this issue if I'm going to see any progress. For some background on this issue for me personally, read this short blog entry: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/jonzo21/view/the-reasons-my-self-control-suffers-what-to-do-167002

So basically, after dwelling in my self control issues, I thought of something that may help me. And then I thought, maybe this will help other people too? And including other people in this may help to be motivation for me and everyone else.

So here is my idea. Get a notebook (nothing fancy) and title a page with the Month (November). Under the heading, put the day of the month, and write down a specific self control goal of yours for that specific day. For instance, my goal today is to make sure I don't snack on any of the foods at work when I go in tonight (I work in the food industry and we always snack on the potatos, the nachos, etc). So my goal tonight is not to do any of that. Now under your goal, make a check box for yes or no. At the end of the night (or start of the next day) check whether or not you met this goal. Now do this for every day of the week all month long (with different goals each day... you can overlap and have the same goals on certain days, but vary it up a bit. Really dig deep into where you need to improve your self control to figure out what goals you need to make)

This group is a little different because I can't give you your specific goals for the week because everyone will have different self control issues they need to conquer. Also plan out your self control goals. (ie: if you know you will be attending a party on saturday, make your goal that day to only have 1 drink or only eat half the amount of food you normally would for instance)

Also, make a reward system for yourself. me personally, I have decided that if I can go an entire month checking the "yes" box, I will buy myself something that I've wanted (I've had my eye on this inexpensive choker). Be tough with yourself. If I buy this choker for myself even if I checked 1 box as No, this will convince myself that I can slack off and still be rewarded for it. Not good!

At the end of the week (Sunday or Monday) I want you to email me your results (How many out of the 7 days you managed to put a check mark in your yes box!) And I will keep track and post the results. I may not have time to create a nifty table like some of the other groups, but I will post everyone's progress nonetheless.

If this sounds like you would be interested, then please feel free to join this (beta) group. I call this a beta group because it is my first group, also because I want this to be a monthly group, but since were starting already past the beginning of the month this group will only be half a month long to see how everyone does. I will see how everyone likes it, what changes should be made etc. If all goes well, this could be a monthly thing starting in December.

Now I am only accepting the first 10-15 people that want to do this, for this "beta" group. If it goes well, next month I will accept more and we can start the group officially.

This will officially start the week of Nov 14. You can use this week as practice and start logging some goals or consider what kind of goals you want to have, but you should email me your first results Nov 20 or 21. Also when you email me your results, feel free to tell me your best accomplishment for that week in terms of your self control, and I will choose one at random that I think it motivating or a great accomplishment and post it in the spotlight for that week!

Good luck everyone