Keeping A Food Diary for Losing Weight Naturally

Eating food is a habit. Okay it is a habit that keeps us alive, without it we would die very quickly. But what we eat, when we eat it etc is a habit too, and some of those habits can be very destructive. From a biscuit with your tea to a kebab or fried chicken after a night out, we all have little habits and idiosyncrasies when it comes to eating. What is important is we come to understand ourselves, our habits, and address those that need addressing. And the best way of doing that is by using a food diary.

A food diary is, quite simply, a diary of everything that you eat, when you eat it. The concept is simple, you write in the diary a number of factors (depending on what you are trying to measure) to do with food. A typical diary will have you writing in it such things as:

* What you ate – This alone can come as a shock to many people, it is all too easy to forget that you ate so many biscuits, or to skip over those two sandwiches you had between lunch and dinner. By writing everything down you become much more aware of how much you eat, and how healthy or otherwise it is.

* How hungry you are – Usually on a scale of 1 – 10. This is a useful tool as it let’s you know how hungry you tend to be when you decide to snack on something, letting you know if that is a problem to be addressed (perhaps eating less amounts but more often).

* Why you ate it – Again useful to see if you are eating for other reasons that hunger. Perhaps through boredom, very useful when couple with the hunger ‘score’.

* What time you ate it – Again a good way of tracking whether it is just habit or because you were hungry. Knowing what time you eat when coupled with your hunger score lets you know whether you tend to eat at a time for the sake of it (habit) or if you get hungry at that point – in which case you can prepare for it.

* What you were doing – It could be certain actions trigger you to eat, such as having a cup of coffee or reading a magazine.

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