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Food Diary

Are you a grazer, a binge eater?  Do you find yourself forgetting to eat?  Having a hard time losing weight even with all the exercise you are doing?  A food diary is a great tool to help keep you or get you back on track.  Try writing down everything you eat for the next three days and you’ll be surprised by what you find.  Be honest and as accurate as possible, recording the amount, timing, your mood and where you are while you’re eating.  For example: Breakfast-6 am, ½ grapefruit with ½ tsp sugar, 1 cup cereal with ¼ cup low fat milk, 1 coffee with 2 sugars and 2 tbsp full cream milk – sleepy and hungry.  It doesn’t have to be pretty and the easier it is to do the more likely you are to follow through.  Write it on a scrap of paper or whatever you have available.   It is a great tool to help keep you accountable and point out the hidden calories that you didn’t even realize you were eating.  Tally up all the sugars and extra you’ve been eating at the end of the week and you may have found the reason for that stubborn weight gain.  So, to get back on track today, start keeping a food diary.