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Tracking Your Food: The Right Way To Do It

By Emma Robinson


When you begin your diet one of the things you will learn right away is that trying to keep a food journal is very helpful. Keeping your foods record not only helps you see clearly what you are consuming, it helps you see what you are not eating. One example is that, after following your nutrition for a few days you could realize that you are consuming far too many sugars and unhealthy fats without nearly enough organic nutrients. When you write everything down you can see which parts of your diet must change as well as have a lot easier time figuring out what kind and how long of a workout you need to do to shrink your waist line and burn the most calories.

But let's say you've been writing everything down and still aren't reducing your weight? There is a right way and a wrong way to observe your food. A food journal isn't only a list of the items you've eaten during the day. Other sorts of important information will certainly need to be written down as well. Here are a few tips that you can use to help your food tracking be more successful.

Be as specific as you can while you write down what you take in. You have to do more than simply write down "salad" into your food log. You need to record every one of the ingredients within that salad as well as the type of dressing on it. You also need to include the amounts of the foods you consume. "Cereal" seriously isn't as beneficial an entry as "one cup Honey Nut Cheerios." It is very important to keep in mind that the larger your portions, the more calories you will be eating so you need to know just how much of every thing you actually eat so that you can figure out how many calories you will need to work off.

Record the time of morning that you consume things. This can help you discover when you feel the most hungry, when you are vulnerable to snack and what you can do about it. After several days you'll note that even if you might be eating lunch at the same time every day, you are still hungry an hour later. This may also make it easier to identify the times when you start to eat simply to give yourself something to do. This is incredibly useful because realizing when you're vulnerable to snacking will help you fill those times with other activities that will keep you away from the candy aisle.



What sort of feelings are you in whenever you eat? Write it down! This helps you figure out when you use meals to help soothe emotional issues. It also helps you see plainly which foods you have a tendency to choose when you are in certain moods. Lots of us will reach naturally for processed food when we feel upset or angry and we are more likely to choose healthy options when we feel happy or content. Not only will this allow you to notice when you reach for specific foods based on your mood, it will help you find ways to keep healthier (but similar) selections on hand for those same moods and help you figure out whether or not someone professional can help you deal with the issues that are sending you towards certain foods in the first place.




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