No Diet Weight Loss Hints – Keep a Food Diary

Assuming that you yearn to lose weight without avoiding your favourite foods or dramatically changing your consuming patterns then to start you ought to consider keeping a Food Journal. It is a simple archive of what you have eaten and drunk over a specific period of time which gives you an accurate log of what you have actually eaten rather than what you think you might have. Often there is a big difference, which is why most diet experts feel that keeping a diet journal is crucial to successful weight loss success.

The no diet, diet focus is on the motivations, feelings and psychology of dieting and the first step is to keep a diet diary so that you become fully aware of your individual food intake and consuming patterns. Only when you understand these patterns and what motivated you to choose them could you start to replace those old motivations with new ones. A no diet, weight loss program addresses the cause of overconsuming to enable you to regain control of your weight.

Here are some handy guidelines for keeping a diet diary. The first and most obvious is not to try to keep a diet record on scraps of paper, but to get a proper food diary on which to record your eating habits. A good no diet, food diary will contain headings that will help you to set small achievable goals.

No diet, diets are successful because they train you to just change one small, little thing about your eating patterns on a regular basis. It is the accumulation of these little things that over time amount to big and dramatic changes in your weight. So your diet journal must have space for the area that you wish to change. Typically these will fall into one of the following four areas.

Portion Size.
If your problem is portions: log the amount you eat and how much you could reduce it without feeling restricted.

Healthier Food Choices
You will already know the foods you eat that you need to avoid. So if you wish to focus on a healthier diet log the food types you eat and more importantly what you could easily replace them with to lose weight.

Habit Consuming
Do you sometimes eat just because it is time to eat, irrespective of weather you are hungry or not? If so your problem is habit consuming. Then log in your food journal the time of day, where you are, with whom, and any activity that triggers the habit.

Emotional Consuming.
We all eat to make ourselves feel better, but for some this emotional high takes over. Supposing that your eating is emotional start to log your moods, emotions and feelings and how they connect to your eating patterns.

Also your diet journal needs to track the foods that you eat, rather than the calories that they contain. What you are looking for is an overall pattern of eating rather than a detailed archive of the calories that you consume. Remember that when you wish to lose weight, water is your best friend. Not only does it not contain any calories but it also hydrates the body aiding losing weight and may keep you from feeling hungry.

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