Misty - I've been EC'ing DD since she was about 2 weeks old and it's only recently I've gone nappy free overnight...and during the day she has a nappy on, mostly! Cut yourself a break use the nappies and aim to save at least one nappy change for having read a sign right. When you've been doing that a while and notice you're using less fresh nappies through the day and night, give the night nappy a miss and work on nappy free nights for a while. That's what I am doing and everyone will do it differently. It's now become normal to have DD with no night nappy, even though, after a particularly long day or when I'm feeling sick we'll have a regression (the regression is mine, I realise in hindsight she was plain in her signals!).
So, here we use a combination of timing and cues.
Like Tish says, be gentle on yourself and realise that we didn't grow up seeing this done and we're learning a very new thing, all of us!
We went away for the long weekend and stayed in a motel with a group of other people we were with and the first evening they were commenting on our use of the chamber pot and by day 2 it was normalised. That's considering we had families in our party who are currently using nappies. I think now they expect to see me doing something unconventional It seemed to make sense to them, though!
A 7 hour drive on the way up we used 2 nappies and the same for the way back. During the day, whilst walking around the competition grounds, I averaged about 2 nappies, too! Finding a toilet block wasn't hard at all and she had to get used to doing poo in there - she baulked initially then realised it was that or her nappy...she chose the former