The Very Best Approach To Track Your Food

By Sandra Crosby


When you begin a diet just about the most often heard pieces of advice is to keep a food log in which you write down every thing you eat during the day. Keeping a food log helps you identify the foods you are eating as well as the foods you aren't eating. One example is that, after tracking your meals for a few days you might realize that you are consuming far too many sugars and unhealthy fats without nearly enough organic nutrients. When you write every little thing down you can see which parts of your diet must change as well as have a simpler time figuring out what kind and how long of a workout you need to do to shrink your waist line and burn the most calories.

But what if you've been writing everything down and still aren't losing weight? You can track your meals the right way or the wrong way. A food record is a lot more than just a basic list of the foods you eat during a day. You must keep track of some other very important information. Here are a number of the things you need to do to be more productive at food tracking.

You ought to be very precise whenever you write down the things that you are eating. It isn't enough to simply jot down "salad" on a list. You should record all of the ingredients within that salad as well as the type of dressing on it. You also need to record the amount of of the foods you are eating. "Cereal" seriously isn't as beneficial an entry as "one cup Honey Nut Cheerios." Don't forget that the more of a thing you consume, the more calories you are going to take in 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 morning that you eat things. This allows you to see what times of day you feel the hungriest, when you are likely to reach for a snack and the right way to work around those times. After a few days you'll observe that even though you might be eating lunch at the same time every day, you are still hungry an hour later. You should also be able to discover whether or not you might be eating since you're bored. This is important because all those are situations that you can select other things to fill your time with than food.



Write down how you feel when you eat. This can help you pinpoint when you use meals to help soothe emotional issues. It will even identify the foodstuffs you choose when you are in certain moods. Many individuals will reach for junk foods whenever we are disappointed, angry or depressed and will be more likely to choose healthier options when we are happy or content. Not only will this enable you to notice when you reach for precise foods based on your mood, it will help you find ways to keep healthier (but similar) options 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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