Monday, January 14, 2013

Weight Loss Success with a Food Journal

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.

Evaluating the nutritional value of the food we consume on a daily basis allows us to figure out the types of food that we should consume that can offer plenty of vitamins and minerals to our body. We become more responsible in making better judgments to the sort of food we consume; making sure it is healthy and low in calories.

We develop an increase in willpower after determining the factors that may hinder us from proceeding in our weight loss process. Factors such as eating habits, patterns, and our occasional inability to resist from temptations can play a big role in hindering our improvement, but with the help of the food diary, we can distinguish these factors and learn to develop healthier food choices.

The main purpose of journal writing is to allow the author to freely express their feelings without limit. Their minds are relieved from frustrations that sometimes cannot be easily expressed out loud. Emotional eating, for example, is one reason that can cause us to eat uncontrollably due to situations that affect our emotions, but being able to release our feelings through writing can assist us in discovering the link between our food habits to our mood. Some of us eat this and that because we feel a certain way; this bad habit can go on unless we identify the culprit.

A food journal lets us keep track of our daily calorie intake, which is very significant to know especially since calories play a big role in weight loss. Each day is used to compare the different daily results and pinpoint the losses and gains. A journal also keeps all records of our triumphs and goals that can be of good use to become our source of inspiration in excelling every day.

All things considered, food journals are a great weight loss companion because of its give us a better understanding of our eating behavior and how to change that behavior to achieve a healthier lifestyle.




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