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I'm still writing down everything I eat.A food journal is a confession; you tell the truth about eating half a pizza for breakfast because, well, you always know when you're lying. Journaling felt weird at first — I had a hard time even remembering what I had eaten by the end of each day — but after just one month of telling all to my food diary, I had dropped five pounds. It turns out lots of people lose weight this way. A new study by Kaiser Permanente in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine confirms what my own self-study suggested: among dieters who were trying to lose weight, those who wrote down everything they ate lost twice as much as those who did not.
I'm still writing down everything I eat. I'll let you know if I lose 5 pounds.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1821349,00.html#ixzz2J1NpTLwj
Diet Calendar Entries for 25 January 2013:
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1133 kcal
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Fat: 26.30g | Prot: 85.25g | Carb: 148.14g.
Breakfast: blueberries, milk, living harvest hemp, spinach, green powder. Lunch: red delicious apple, salad greens, olive oil, fat free feta. Dinner: cocktail sauce, shrimp, cantaloupe. Snacks/Other: banana, oatmeal, blueberries. more...
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2289 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Sitting - 4 hours, Conditioning exercise (health club) - 1 hour, Resting - 11 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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