April 5, 2006

Journaling Food & Diet
Posted in Diet/Nutrition

Journaling food iconOne thing that I find really hard about Weight Watchers is that you have to journal your food and what you eat. Many times my girlfriend who is a former Weight Watcher employee has mentioned that journaling is extremely important… EVEN if you are slacking off it is still important to log what you eat.

My personal opinion on the journaling is that it sucks. I hate writing lol. BUT i think that by journaling it keeps you structured and even if you pig out and eat 30 doughnuts in one day the structure part pulls you back the NEXT day and gets you back on track. I think sometimes people will binge or screw up one day, then the next day tell themselves that they have already messed up the day before, what good will it do to do well today, and spiral down from there. OK ok, I am talking about myself :) .

Back to journaling. In Weight Watchers the actual eating healthy part is easy but i find that i forget to journal things, because i don’t want to carry the actual journal & a pen with me when i am out and about, or bring it to and from work, etc.

Aside from Weight Watchers, many body builders track their diet down to minute details of protein, carbohydrate and caloric intake. At this point I am not interested in going that deep but maybe in the future.

What i am going to do is create a category for journaling my daily foods. That way I can keep an archive here on the site of what I eat and have the ability to reflect BACK and see what is actually going on.

This journal will begin NOW!

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