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Sounds a bit like a butt constricted activity, but doing a spreadsheet is really working for me on this Weigh-In Wednesday challenge.

I wanted something to keep me on track better, something to help me remember what sometimes seems like the little things. For me, they are the little things that add up over time and so I need to get them back to being habitual.

So, I created a very anal sounding spreadsheet to put on my fridge. Here is my Week 1 effort – looks a bit messy, but ticks were that I’d done the activity spot on, crosses were that I’d completely so not done it and the dot was that I’d done it but not completely at my target.

I enjoyed adding the ticks, dots and comments – not so much the crosses! But it does look a tad messy after a while.

I was talking to Lucy from Diminishing Lucy the other day and she said that she had the same sort of thing, but would colour the squares.

So, that got me thinking ….. first I applied it to Week 1 to see what it would look like.

Much nicer.

Coloured squares are 100% achieved target, diagonal line is where I attempted and did some of the target activity, but not all and blank is, once again, where I stuffed it! It was easier to add comments too, that will help with identifying triggers down the track.

But the really good thing to come out of it was a spin-off that I hadn’t anticipated.

I put Week 2’s chart on the fridge and started colouring. Fishlips, my 8yr old, is all interested and asks if she can colour it in for me…….. and here is born another layer of support. She said she’ll keep checking for when she can colour the next square!

And so, what started as a potentially anal exercise, has turned into a loving, supportive one on multiple levels.

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What do you do to keep yourself on track and accountable?