Keep a Food Diary
To Track Your Daily Eating Habits!

Keeping a food diary can help you learn a lot about yourself in terms of what, and how much, you eat. Tracking the food that you eat helps you avoid unconscious eating. That is, eating that leads to consuming excess calories, beyond what you may have ever intended to consume. In fact, research shows that keeping a diary tracking the food you eat will help you not only lose weight but keep the weight off once it's gone!

As you track your meals and snacks, pay attention to the nutritional breakdown of the foods you've eaten each day - including calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat. It is important to keep track of not only what you eat but also when and how much you eat. In your diary, write down everything you eat throughout the day and record the time of day. You will likely be surprised how often you find yourself eating something during the day!

From this information, you may start to see some patterns emerge regarding why you are eating when you do. For example, as you track what and when you eat, you may see that you are snacking out of boredom or habit, even when you are not really hungry.

You can use any type of notebook or diary to track your food consumption; it doesn’t have to be anything fancy. The main thing is that you consciously keep track of everything that goes in your mouth.

If you prefer an online tool for tracking your food consumption, you can find a great one at http://www.fitday.com.

Your weight loss program does not just consist of what and how much you eat. It also requires that you make a conscious choice to change life-long habits. Keeping a food diary to track your food intake is just the first step in recognizing what your current eating habits are. This will greatly help you be successful on whatever weight loss program you choose to use and also to adopt the habits necessary to maintain your weight loss for the rest of your life.

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