Learn To Achieve Successful Weight Loss By Simply Tracking Your Food

When you first start your diet one of the things you will learn right away is that maintaining a food journal is very helpful. Keeping a food record makes it possible to determine the foods you are eating as well as the foods you are not eating. One example is that, after tracking your food for a few days you might realize that you are consuming far too many sugars and unhealthy fats but not nearly enough organic nutrients. Writing all of it down can help you see exactly which parts of your diet program really need to change as well as how much exercise you are going to need to do to make sure that you keep your calorie intake in check.

Your heightened alertness on food is likely to carry over into extra vigilance on your exercise which will only help.

But what if you've been writing everything down and still aren't losing weight? There is a great way and a lazy way to track the food you eat. A food record isn't only a list of the things you've eaten during the day. You must account for a few other very important bits of information, such as the following...

You should be very precise whenever you write down the things you eat. It is not enough to simply jot down "salad" on a list. You need to record each of the components within that salad as well as the type of dressing on it. You need to include the quantity of the food you consume. "Cereal" won't be enough although "one cup Fiber One cereal" is okay. Don't forget that the more of a thing you take in, the more calories you are consuming so you need to list the measurements of what you eat so that you will know just how many calories you've had and will need to burn.

Record the time that you consume things. This will allow you to determine just what times of day you feel the most hungry, when you usually reach for snacks - and then you can figure out how to deal with those times. You might observe, for example, that though you eat lunch at the exact same time every day, you also--without fail--start to snack as little as an hour later, every day. This will even enable you to identify the occasions when you start to eat simply to give yourself something to do. That's important since, once they are recognized, you can find alternative ways to fill those moments than with chomping on unhealthy foods.

What kind of spirits are you in whenever you eat? Write that down! This helps you pinpoint when you use food just to kill time for instance. It may also identify the meals you choose when you are in certain moods. There are lots of people who seek out junk food when they feel angry or depressed and are equally likely to select healthy things when they feel happy and content. Not only will this let you notice when you reach for precise foods based on your mood, it will help you find ways to keep healthier (but similar) selections on hand for those same moods.

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