It’s never easy to keep up with a diet journal tracking everything you eat on a daily basis, but keeping a diet journal is one of the best ways to keep yourself on track with your weight loss goals, and to keep yourself accountable. By keeping a journal of everything you eat, you will know [...]
Among the innumerable uses of journaling, keeping a food journal is especially enlightening and helpful. There may be a variety of reasons why a person would decide to keep a daily food journal. Here are just a few: · You want to lose or gain weight. · You want to alter your diet [...]
Eating for good health is a great way to improve your health. Every day you have the power to make your health better or worse depending on what you eat. The incidence of many degenerative diseases – heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and even cancer – are getting worse in America and around the [...]
A couple of years ago a survey by the American Journal Of Preventive Medicine exposed the unbelievable fact that persons who went on a diet regime and kept a diet log each day lost twice as much weight as those who took part in the diet plan without keeping a history of exactly what they [...]
Recent studies have shown that simply tracking what you eat can help you live a healthier life. (go ahead, google it!) However, maintaining a journal can be monotonous and time consuming. Who can remember lunch and snacks at the end of a busy day? You know how it is, you get all gung-ho about getting [...]
In this day, dieting is not easy and many people choose an extreme method to lose weight – starvation. As we know, starvation only helps us lose weight in short time, and after that it will come to the plateau. This style will make us lose momentum easily and lead to the disruption of our [...]
Losing weight may just be a matter of keeping track of what you eat. Many people don’t even realize how many calories they consume in one day and it often goes above and beyond the recommended daily calorie intake. Robert Priedt of HealthDay recommends logging your food consumption in a diary, as discussed in a [...]
I recently had someone ask me if you’re required or encouraged to keep a food journal while on the Medifast diet. If so, she wanted to know the best way to go about setting one up and what benefit she might get from one. In the following article, I’ll tell you if I use such [...]
Do Not Be a Yo-yo Are you a person struggling with weight loss? Although most dieters understand that nutrition is important, most dieters will be tempted to starve themselves. Unfortunately, starvation deprives the body of nutrition. After an initial period of weight loss, the body will seek to correct the imbalance caused by starvation by [...]
For instance, what are the dietary ramifications for an individual who has high self-efficacy for increasing fruit intake, but who lives and works in a neighborhood with no access to fresh fruit? The ability to have access to good nutritional foods is of the utmost importance to the growing bodies of young children and maintenance [...]
