Food Journals: How Helpful Are They?

Posted on Oct 8th 2009 2:30PM by Mary Kearl

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Reviews & Products

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We can't help but notice everyone's a-Twitter over Tweeting What They're Eating (@TWYE) these days, so we checked into see what people had to say about keeping a food journal on and offline:

FormerFatChick

FormerFatChick What I do to really assess myself is to keep a food and workout journal-that way you realize what kinds and how much food you're having.

Melissatamborra I've been keeping a food diary for a long time. I weigh&measure everything. &count every calorie.

HanafyHanafy

HanafyHanafy Food scanner app on iPhone makes it so easy to build a food diary from barcodes (Weighty Matters) http://tinyurl.com/ydc8yve

Gadamsh

Gadamsh Accomplishment for the day: All smiles on my food diary diagnostic. Which is amazing- I usually go over on sodium. I guess I'm improving! :)

gypsyraven

gypsyraven I'm trying 2eat healthier since I have to keep a food diary for my trainer now...so no more 8 slices of bacon 4 brekkie

georgeaye

georgeaye just started a 30 day food diary with my wife using google docs. Not sure if I've just created a monster

eleanorc

eleanorc oh gosh a food diary is harsh! Mine would read: 12 Jaffa cakes, packet of Doritos, wine, more wine etc lol

flissy666

flissy666 I'm keeping a food diary and have realised that I am in complete denial about the amount of snacks I have before dinner!

turtleprogress

turtleprogress @HealthPop I track my food in an online journal now and it has definitely helped. I use Sparkpeople!

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

joevill 10-09-2009 @ 9:28AM

Food Journals are very helpful! I've been tracking my intake of food since March of 2008. Websites like caloriecount.about.com make it easier to do with detailed reports, graphs, and food analysis.

msdelisle 10-31-2009 @ 9:13PM

I keep a food journal. I find that keeping a journal helps me stick with healthy eating and meeting my daily requirements for fruit, veggies, whole grain and dairy. I am trying to lose weight and on the weeks that I have a gain, it's helpful to go back to my journal to see what I could have done differently.