Tonight is the end of the THIRD week I have gone without picking!! This a huge step for me. There is research that says it takes three weeks to break a habit. Even though that is true I still don’t feel I have entirely broken it, but coming three whole weeks makes me feel confident that I CAN break it and I WILL break it. I think this has been more than a bad habit for me. And even though I can truthfully I say I have not stood in front of mirror to pick for the past three weeks… I have not stopped feeling the bumps on my face and rubbing them and irritating them. This is the next step… to stop that!! One thing I am a little disappointed about is my pimples have not disappeared. I think I had the belief that my skin really wasn’t bad and that the only reason I had the red marks was because I picked at invisible things and that made the skin bad. Now blackheads and white heads are springing up everywhere… maybe everywhere is an exaggeration. You do have to look close to see them and they aren’t everywhere… Maybe it has to do with my skin being out of wack after the sudden change from picking to not picking. Probably the more likely reason is that I AM a teen and I will just have to deal with it. BUT on the upside my skin looks fantastic compared to the red marks I had from picking. I no longer feel like i have to hide for pictures. Well, here starts WEEK FOUR. No giving in now!