Weight Loss Tip: no.2523
Use a notebook to track what you eat and drink.
Care to guess why?
Yup, keeping a food journal is something you should do because documenting everything you consume makes it easier to count calories for the day so you know how close you are to your requirements so you don’t go over. Additionally, by recording what you eat and drink every day, you have the ability to look back into the past and better correlate your progress or lack of it with your dietary choices, from which you can then make the appropriate changes to your intake or eating habits without the guesswork of determining what to fix. Along this line, the final benefit of monitoring is that it helps hold you accountable for your decisions.
The reasons above are why studies have routinely found that people who maintain food journals have far better success at losing weight or keeping it off than those who don’t. Regarding the specifics of a food diary, it doesn’t necessarily have to be with a pen and pad. Instead, it can take the form of a spreadsheet or food tracking app. From there, you just record the name of the item you’re consuming, the portion size, and the amount of calories in that portion, as well as the count of any nutrients that you want to satisfy as part of your diet. Next, if eating multiple things in a sitting, add up all the figures to arrive at the total value(s) and then keep a running tally of the amount(s) at subsequent meals for the duration of the day. The process of keeping a food log can get more complicated than the outlined instructions depending on how detail-oriented you are but the provided is more than enough to get started with.
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