The Importance of Keeping a Food Diary When starting a new diet/lifestyle, it's helpful to keep a food diary. A food diary has many advantages as you'll see below. I'm going to show you the importance of keeping a food diary with ideas below. I personally despise keeping a food journal. And it's not because I don't want to keep track, it's because I'm not very technical … [Read more...]
Keep a Food and Exercise Log (BHL Challenge Week 3)
Can you believe it's week 3 in the Better Healthy Living Challenge? The goal for this week is to keep a daily food and exercise log. Exercise Journal: Keeping an exercise journal will help you stay on track with your workouts. It will help you see how far you have come and motivate you to keep going. … [Read more...]
Do you count calories?
Counting calories has not been easy for me to accomplish. For the first time since starting my new lifestyle in 2005, I am finally keeping an actual food journal and I count calories by plugging in everything I eat during the day at The Daily Plate. They offer a free way to count calories and also have a Gold paid version available. The first time I tried tracking calories … [Read more...]