Have you ever cheated, like you didn’t do the exercise but you marked it as done?

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Melquisedeque Z.

Yes I did this before because I was rushing to work and I am always very late. I will re schedule my time in a way to fit in the exercise and not over sleep.

Cl O P.

Not exactly. I may have done some of the exercises but not all. For example, today, I did about half of the side planks and rested the rest of the way. Every day feels differently. Sometimes, the body isn’t up to the same degree of rigor but I do attempt all of the exercises.

Paul Q.

Yes, I have done that plenty of times. Typically for me it is meditating. I always feel guilty afterwards and that helped to stop me from actually doing that.

Jessie P.

Not so far, but I have ignored the app when life got busy or threw unexpected things my way. I liked the way it quietly encouraged me to return 😏

Divineide Q.

I did more than the 7 min routine. Took a 20 min walk and loaded and unloaded moving boxes into storage for three hours.

Walter S.

No. What are you to gain from doing that? If you’ve cheated on a test then you’ve fooled the education system. If you’ve marked a habit as done without actually doing it then you’re making a fool out of yourself. This is a safe place to be open and honest with yourself. Like a science experiment, any action counts, whether you do it or not, it becomes data that you can use to explain your results and manipulate for better results the next time around. Use these methods to improve yourself rather than to lie to yourself. The checkbox doesn’t care about whether or not you did the exercise. YOU have to care.

Jonathan F.

Not yet. Honestly for me if I forget to mark my daily task until the next day I concider it a failed day. As part of the habbit is waking up and marking your habbits complete is just as important. I’d recommend NEVER cheating a checkmark as the day you see you’re on a 30 day streak will be ruined by the fact you know one or more of those days were lies to temporarily feel better about yourself.

Norma Z.

That’s what I used to do when I first started then I realized there’s no point fooling myself. The biggest motivator was seeing that I didn’t complete a task the day before, and that made me determined to actually do the task and mark it as done, which also feels amazing!

Rosvita E.

I am not sure why would I do it. I sometimes decreased the amount of exercise or ate breakfast much later and still put the checkmark, but it didn’t feel like cheating.

Mathilde W.

Before I knew you couldn’t undo it, yes. And accidentally. But I really try to keep it as honest as possible with myself. I’ll know if I’m cheating so it really doesn’t make me feel any better to mark it off.

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