Food Diaries: A Beneficial Weight Loss Companion

By Dave Lee


Compared to the journals that we used to own growing up, journals these days are now becoming more utilized as a helpful companion to improve a person's emotional, mental, and even physical well-being. From just a simple piece of notebook where we could scribble away our feelings to a beneficial weight loss progress report.


Proper utilization of a food journal aids in being responsible for our own food choices, closely monitor our improvements, self-discipline, discover the connection between our emotions and food, and to become a source of inspiration. Daily documentation of your food consumption can assist in discovering all the little details we never really paid attention to such as our eating habits that may be a setback to our weight loss program. Repairing these setbacks can help us to continually change our lifestyle.

When we are able to review the type of food, quantity, and amount of calories that we have consumed in one day, we can get an overall view of our food choices and its nutritional assessment. With these facts, we become liable and accountable to what we choose to put in our body. We start to make smarter decisions in selecting only food that will nourish and fuel our body.

As we assess our eating patterns, we start to discover the factors that may weigh us down such as certain foods that we may need to avoid. Learning to have more self-discipline helps us to know when to say no and opt for healthy, low-fat foods rather than give in to our cravings. Increased self-discipline is useful when buying and preparing our meals.

Journal writing helps us to relieve ourselves from emotions that we have difficulty expressing. As we jot down our food intake along with our thoughts, we gradually reveal the relationship between the foods we ate to our emotions. Sometimes we let our emotions get in the way, which causes us to eat hysterically to provide for our emotional needs instead of our physical needs. Food diaries help in balancing these two in order to asses hunger versus emotions.

Maintaining a daily record of our food intake permits us to compare our eating pattern from the current day to the previous days and so on and so forth. Noticing the difference between the days can help us see the progress or the decline. With these points we become motivated to do better and make healthier food choices in order to develop good eating habits. Our improvement can further stimulate us to keep going and not give up.

Weight loss is a challenging lifestyle change that we gradually adapt to. We need all the help we can get with the benefits of a food journal. The emotional and physical help that journal writing offers can be very useful in our transition to a healthier being.




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