Thanks Wants2Fly; I'm not even sure what I meant anymore :-) I agree with your 3x day 10 day analogy but maybe the 3x makes the "whole" more intense and provides backup so even though there's only 10 days for each, the chances that one will last 2-28 with at least one so have a "habit" intact are greater?

How about if you don't set a time/pattern and just 3x a day; you have 10 days of 3x a day and then say you do only 2x for another week and only 1x a day for at least 4-11 days; do you have a habit then? :-)

I think by "speed" I was doing some sort of thinking on "intensity" (my brain never goes from Point A to Point B in a straight line willingly :-) Your 3x a day thing and what I did with it above has helped me a lot, thanks!

Maybe there's something too in that some things; 3x for 10 days would definately benefit one "more" than 1x for 10 days? And there's sometimes "guilt" in there. I buy Deerpark water that gets delivered in 1/2-liter bottles and right now for my 2 week project I have that I want to drink 4 a day. I only drank 3 yesterday and having a higher than usual amount (I use to drink several but then slacked off and want to get back into the habit) can both encourage and discourage and I wonder where the setpoint is? I've read one is supposed to drink an ounce of water for each 2 pounds one weighs and figured it out and theoretically, I'm supposed to drink 17 of my bottles of water a day :-) I'd definately give that up not even before a single day was through. I wonder how just "knowing" that little 17 number discourages me, despite the unlikeliness of it being "true"/good for me to do? Maybe I should decide to drink 6 bottles (I've done 4 before and it's "doable") a day to make sure I drink at least 4? I think these sorts of things are what I was thinking about. :-)