floss daily

i flossed this morning and i flossed again tonight! this is the first time i’ve remembered to floss both morning and night. hooray!

So I’ve been doing this for about 2 weeks every day (almost!) I’m going to give it a few more weeks before I cross it off. You know, how they say it takes 30 days to develop a habit, that’s what I’m waiting for. I do the top in the mornings and floss the bottoms at night. Now that I’ve been doing it every day it doesn’t feel like it takes much time. I do a quick 1 minute floss. My gums feel stronger and my teeth feel so clean. You don’t realize how much gunk really is there until you floss. Can’t wait to see the dentist and get some approval in a few weeks. :)

i realized a few weeks ago that i couldn’t remember the last time i flossed me teeth. after taking a better look at my gums, i could see that it was obviously a long time ago. so i’ve started flossing. it was a bit bloody at first, but i’m proud to say they no longer bleed and are looking so much better! i can even feel the difference. i’m currently flossing once a day, but i’d like to step it up to twice.

if you look at your gums and they have begun to or have already grown high up between the teeth, it’s about that time! also, if you look on the inner side of your front bottom row of teeth and see build up between, that should be convincing enough. it was for me >_<

So I can’t say I’m perfect, and probably at least one day a week I’m too lazy, but all in all I feel like I can’t go to bed with out flossing which is quite a change for me.

For nearly a month, I’ve been nearly OCD about my teeth.
I brush & floss 3+ times everyday.
As a kid, I rarely brushed mine and I never had a cavity.

So an easy way to do this is to floss the top half in the morning and floss the bottom half at night. That way it doesn’t take up 10 minutes at one time. It’s easier to split it up and it works for me this week. 30 days and I’m taking this sucker down!
It feels soo good to floss. There is stuff in between my teeth. They feel so clean afterwards.

I bought Plackers dental flossers, and they’ve made flossing so much easier for me. I hated having to shove my hand in my mouth to get to the back teeth, so for a while I gave up flossing. But now it’s super quick, infinitely less disgusting and easy to floss basically anywhere if I bring them with me.

I should be paid for all this advertising.

And apparently they’re made from the same material as bulletproof vests, or so the package claims.

and now I feel like I am gross if I don’t floss every night before bed. And yesterday’s visit to the dentist confirmed that my hard work has paid off, because the hygienist commented that I must floss because my gums looked good. Yippee! No more flossy lecture!

I read that it takes 3 weeks to make anything a habit. Not too sure if that is 100% true, at least for me, but at this point I think it is a good place to start. I’d like to just start realizing my goals instead of dreaming them up, so even if I have to start with something as small as flossing, I’ll do it. I’m sure I have at least 2 spare minutes each day so there is no reason not to.

When I got my teeth cleaned a week and a half ago, the dental hygienist told me there was very little for her to clean off and to keep up the good dental hygiene. Guess I’m doing the right thing! In 49 days I will have flossed daily for three months straight which means I’ll get to mark this goal as accomplished.