‘How keeping a food diary helps you with weight loss’
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There are hundreds upon thousands of ways suggested to lose weight and prevent extra weight gain. What you also have to take into account is that everyone’s metabolism is different, so the same methods won’t work on everyone. Some will benefit from regular exercise, others will benefit from supplements like the XLS Medical fat binder.
One of the most popular ways of shedding those extra kilos is to keep a food diary. This is when you note down everything you eat, when you eat it, as well as why you ate it.
Weight loss involves a number of physical changes: upping your exercise, changing what you eat and perhaps supplementing that with a fat binder; but there is much to be said for more mental changes, which help you understand more about your eating.
Recording your intentions is vital
As important as it is to rigorously document everything you eat, it’s equally vital to write down why you wanted to eat what you ate. For instance, if you ordered a spicy salami pizza on Friday night, say so, but also say what exactly made you go for it.
The answers you’ll find yourself writing down will surprise you. You could find out that it’s not the quality of the chorizo that made you order it, but the fact that you just like eating pizza when you watch movies at home.
Soon, hidden food triggers will emerge, and you’ll learn how to control them better as they become more apparent.
Trying out different diary methods
You may find that the food diary method doesn’t work quite as well as you hoped, because you scribble everything down in a notepad and then just shove it away. Out of sight, out of mind!
If that doesn’t work out for you, don’t give up. For some people, just writing something down once will set things in stone in their minds. For others, jotting things down on a calendar or putting sticky notes on the fridge will be far more effective.
Different levels of detail
Some of us aren’t the most descriptive when it comes to writing, but that’s fine. If you’re not a very descriptive person, or if you simply can’t be bothered to fill out all the details, writing just a little could well still do the trick. Just don’t get too lazy.
If you did get a good grade for descriptive writing at school, however, go crazy! The more descriptive you are, the more inclined you will be to skip unhealthy meals in the future. Invest some emotion in the process and you should have more desire to stick with it.
Getting the timing right
Try and scribble down your notes as soon as you can after the meal, or as you’re waiting for it. You’ll tend to leave out details if you wait too long. Even if you don’t have time to describe your meal in flowery language, just write a few rough notes down so you can fill out the diary later on.
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