Yeah, exactly! And I feel we are not being fair on ourselves saying we are back on day 1 if we had a slip the day before, but were previously doing well for a week, a month, two months etc. We are never starting over, just continuing on our journey. I feel that with only counting success as having a pull free streak, it allows you to make excuses. Eg "im not ready to start a pullfreeathon yet" or "I dont have the motivation to start a streak yet" and then you allow yourself to pull. I dont know, I think I may be repeating myself here. Im just trying to find the perfect way to articulate my thoughts but I'm not quite achieving that!

I now feel comforted knowing there will probably be little blips here and there on my calendar, but the aim is always to keep getting more good days and less bad. And for the bad days to be further and further apart.

Haircut tomorrow, aargh!! I am brave, I am strong, I am no less because of my hair. Breathe... At least I can always count on them to be nice to me.

Yes, it is frustrating to start back at day 1 and hard to make it not feel like failure. I like using both ways of counting (overall percentage and consecutive days) because when I get past a few days it is really motivating for me and I keep thinking "I don't want to mess up this streak by pulling one stupid hair!!" There's many pros and cons to both....I feel like I am always adding to and changing how I do things involving trich as I learn more about what works!

That is a great mantra!! Your hair salon sounds great and very supportive. Just think how happy you'll be when it's done and how good it will look. Shorter hair always looks so much fuller, especially with curly hair! It can be a relaxing experience if you can get in the right mindset...try to enjoy it if you can!!

I feel like my methods are constantly changing evolving too.

Thank you, I will try to enjoy it:)

Giving myself a zero for yesterday but it's a fine line. Did some forraging for weak hairs and I found some (which of course came out). I need an alarm to go off when I start to do that that says "woop! Alert! Barriers! Distractions! Stop immediately! "

It went so well! (My haircut). I always forget what a positive experience it is. The staff are all so lovely and non-judgemental. They don't bring up my hair until I do. They don't make any faces or flinch in the slightest when lifting up my shorter tufts. And my hair looks soooooo much better. I got a fun new colour, and a fair bit chopped off the ends (it's been 5 months since my last cut). And my colourist mentioned that my hair is looking a lot thicker. Which is crazy because the last time he coloured my hair was 5 months ago, and I was about 50 days pull free at that time. I sure have been slipping for a while now. Well I'm in a rather positive frame of mind right now, thanks to my newly adopted system of tracking my pulling and my change in attitude toward being "pull free". And subtle yet pervasive improvements to my life. What has been missing for a while, even during pull free periods, is OPTIMISM! And CONFIDENCE. That I CAN DO IT!

What an awesome report! I am smiling with you!!!

That's fantastic!! What color did you dye it?

So glad you had a good experience! I am also wondering about the color : )

You CAN DO IT! Down with low self esteem! Here's to believing in ourselves!! : D Optimism and confidence does make such a difference....

Thank you Stroodleblooms, Manda and Booyah!

Its a deep-ish but vibrant purple-ish red. I got so many compliments on my hair last night. Was glorious. I wish I could get my hair professionally blow dried every day.

Oh and ive finished my july chart!

Breakdown for the month:
31/31 good days
29 of those were pull free days
25 of those pull free days were consecutive

So for the past month and a half my measure of a good day has been a rating of 3 or below. For me thats 9 hair or less. Because I'm doing so well right now (I only scored one 3 this month) I'm going to lower that good day maximum rating to a 2 or below. So 5 hair or less.

Home alone, drinking a little red wine and watching tv. Was searching for (and finding) loose hairs so I put on a head scarf. Hooray for being proactive!

That color sounds awesome! I wish I could pull off a color like that. What a great month for you! I love your counting system to reflect overall progress in multiple ways...all of them are useful ways to look at it!

I think that you could! With your skin and eyes, a shade of red close (in deepness) to your natural brown would look great. Your eyes would POP. Even more than they do now.

And yes, great month indeed. And thanks, I think it's a good system too!

Hooray for being proactive indeed and hooray for a great month in July! : D

I also wish I could afford getting my hair blow dried every day, it's amazing what a difference it makes!

The hair color sounds gorg. That's great that you are so happy with it!

Wow I missed a lot since I last caught up on how you've been doing! That is truly so brave and amazing that you went to the hair dresser and they were cool about it. That is honestly the dream. I don't pull my head hair but there is no way in this world I would ever go get my makeup done professionally and absolutely not my eyebrows done even though it would probably make a world of difference. I'm way too scared and stubborn. So seriously I admire that and it inspires me a lot! I bet it looks and feels amazing and like you can do anything!!

You seem to be having a great month, congratulations!! So happy to hear it AND being proactive which I feel like is the hardest part sometimes, yet the most important!