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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

The Very Best Approach To Track Your Food

By John Hazelton


When you begin your diet one of the things you will learn right away is that keeping a food journal is very helpful. Keeping a food journal helps you recognize the foods you are eating as well as the foods you aren't eating. For example, when you keep a food log for a few days you could notice that even though you eat lots of fruit, you almost never eat any vegetables. Writing all of it down will help you see specifically which parts of your diet program really need to change as well as how much exercise you are going to need to do to make sure that you keep your caloric intake in check.

But what if you write everything down but no weight drop off of you? There is a good way and a idle method to track the food you eat. A food record is more than just a straightforward list of the foods you eat during a day. You have to record other important pieces of information too. Here are a number of the points you need to do to be more effective at food tracking.

Be as specific as you can get whenever you record the things you eat. It is not enough to list "salad" in your food record. You need to record all of the components within that salad as well as the type of dressing on it. You should include the amount of the food you eat. "Cereal" is just not as beneficial an entry as "one cup Honey Nut Cheerios." Don't forget that the more of a thing you take in, the more calories you are going to ingest so you need to list out the measurements of what you eat so that you will know precisely how many calories you take in and will need to burn.

Record the time of day time you take in things. This will allow you to find out precisely 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 notice, for example, that although 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 could also be able to determine when you are eating simply to have something to do. This is significant because those are moments that you can select other things to fill your time with than food.



What type of mood are you in when you eat? Write it down! This can show you whether or not you use food to solve emotional issues. It may also identify the foodstuffs you select when you are in certain moods. Many individuals will reach for junk foods whenever we are worried, angry or depressed and will be more likely to choose healthier options when we are happy or content. Not only will this allow you to notice when you reach for specific foods based on your mood, it will help you find ways to keep healthier (but similar) selections on hand for those same moods and help you figure out whether or not someone professional can help you deal with the issues that are sending you towards certain foods in the first place.




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