The food diary is recognized as a powerful tool to help you lose weight. It allows you to realize your choice of food, intake and emotions or feelings that push you to eat even when you do not really hungry.
1 Choose a food diary
It may be a simple notebook or a notebook, a text file on your computer or even a journal available online that performs all calculations to provide you with complete nutritional information.
Some people now publishing blogs where they demonstrate their efforts, their difficulties and of course, their success. They will also find advice and comfort from the encouragement exchanged through the comments.
2 Writing in the journal Food
Depending on your slimming goals, you will note in your diary:
1.the foods consumed
2.The time of food intake
3.The daily habits: sweets, snacks, cocktails etc..
4.the triggers cravings
5.The number of calories, carbs or points
6.the exercises, description, duration of scéance
7.votre weight or your body measurements
8.votre satisfaction at the end of the day
From the youngest age you have received food in response to your tears and your cries, because then you could not express your discomfort, your hunger and your emotions. It is therefore not surprising that the adult food you choose to respond to various stimuli that have nothing to do with your dietary needs.
3 Getting to know each other better
It’s perfectly normal to seek solace in food when we are stressed, tired or bored you. We do not always eat because we are hungry. They also eat to comfort and of course to celebrate.
What is crucial is to be aware and most importantly, to avoid that it becomes a habit that sabotages your efforts to lose weight.
Using your food diary, you’ll be able to identify:
° When you’re hungry?
° What foods are most appealing to you?
° Do you eat the same thing?
° What flavors you especially like: salt, sweet, spicy, sour?
° What do you prefer textures: crunchy, soft, liquid?
° Who do you like to eat: spouse, family, friends?
° Do you prefer to eat alone in peace?
° What do you like eating: read, watch TV, talk?
° Do you eat enough protein, vegetables and fruit?
° What are the situations that lead you to eat even if you’re not hungry?
° What are the exercises you do with pleasure walking, running, dancing?
By completing the daily pages of your food diary, you’ll be able to wear a more dispassionate look at your behavior and the circumstances of your life that may influence you without your knowledge.
These data will allow you to adjust the fire and help guide your efforts to lose weight.
Eating is a basic need. You can stop smoking or drinking alcohol. By cons, you certainly can not stop eating. But turn your lifestyle is at your fingertips, using your food diary.
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