Saturday, December 7, 2013

Tracking Your Foods: The Way To Do It

By Cheryl Thomas


When you begin your diet one of many things you will learn right away is that keeping a food journal is very helpful. Keeping your food record not only helps you see clearly what you are having, it helps you see what you are not eating. For example, after you keep a food record for a few days you may notice that while you eat lots of fruit, you almost never eat any vegetables. When you write every little thing down you'll be able to see which parts of your diet must change as well as have an 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 what happens if you write almost everything down but no excess weight drop off of you? There is a good way and a sluggish way to track the food you eat. A food journal isn't merely a list of what exactly you've eaten during the day. You have to keep track of various other very important information. Here are a number of points that you can use to help your food tracking be more successful.

You need to be very particular while you write down the things that you are eating. You need to do more than merely write down "salad" into your food journal. You need to record every one of the ingredients within that salad as well as the type of dressing on it. You must also record the amount of of the foods you are eating. "Cereal" defintely won't be enough but "one cup Fiber One cereal" is fine. Don't forget that the more of a thing you take in, the more calories you are going to take in so you need to list out the measurements of what you eat so that you will know exactly how many calories you take in and will need to burn.

Write down precisely what time it is when you eat. This can help you figure out 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'll observe, for example, that though you eat lunch at the identical time every day, you also--without fail--start to snack as little as an hour later, every day. You should also be able to discover whether or not you are eating since you're bored. This is important because all those are situations that you can pick out other things to fill your time with than food.



Record your feelings while you eat. This makes it possible to pinpoint when you use food to help soothe emotional issues. It also makes it possible to see plainly which foods you are inclined to choose when you are in certain moods. There a wide range of people who seek junk food when they feel angry or depressed and are quite as likely to choose healthy things when they feel happy and content. Paying attention to what you reach for when you are upset will help you stock similar but better items in your house for when you need a snack-you could also start talking to someone to figure out why you cure moods with food (if that is something that you actually do).




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