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Tracking Your Foods: The Way To Do It

By Jeffery Omalley


When you start a diet just about the most often heard pieces of advice is to keep a food log in which you write down every thing you eat during the day. Keeping your foods log not only helps you see clearly what you are eating, it helps you see what you are not eating. For example, after maintaining a food journal for a few days, you might see that you are not taking in very many vegetables but that you are consuming lots of sugar and bad carbohydrates. When you write every thing down you'll be able to 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 write everything down but no excess weight drop off of you? There is a good way and a sluggish method to track the food you eat. A food log is more than just a basic list of the foods you eat during a day. Other kinds of important information will certainly need to be written down too. Here are some of the hints that can help you become a lot more successful at food tracking.

You ought to be very precise whenever you write down the things that you are eating. It is not enough to only record "salad" on a list. You need to list all of the materials within that salad as well as the type of dressing on it. You should include the quantity of the food you consume. "Cereal" is not as good an entry as "one cup Honey Nut Cheerios." Remember the more you eat of something the more calories you take in so it is vital that you list quantities so that you know exactly how much of everything you're eating and how many calories you need to burn.

Write down precisely what time it is when you eat. This can help you find out what times of day you feel the most hungry, when you usually reach for snacks and then you can learn how to deal with those times. You'll observe, for example, that although 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. You may possibly also be able to determine when you are eating in order to have something to do. This is critical because, once they are identified, you can find various other ways to fill those moments than with unhealthy foods.



Write down how you feel while you eat. This could show you whether or not you use food to solve emotional issues. It will even identify the foodstuffs you decide on when you are in certain moods. Many individuals will reach for junk foods if we are upset, angry or depressed and will be more likely to choose healthier options when we are happy or content. Not only will this enable you to notice when you reach for particular foods based on your mood, it will help you find ways to keep healthier (but similar) alternatives 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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