Dear Diary

In a recent research, about 1, 685 overweight or obese American adults aged 25 and older were observed for 6 months. All of them kept food diaries and were encouraged to have a healthy diet and exercise. They even met together every week to share their food diaries and learn how to judge the portion sizes. After 6 months, it was observed that those who maintained their food diaries for 6 days a week lost almost twice the amount of weight when compared to those who maintained their food diaries for only 1 day a week or less. This research shows the importance of maintaining food diary to lose weight in helping to provide awareness of what you’re really eating and accountability.

I can use all the help I can get at this point and I have tried and failed at keeping food diary’s mostly because they can be time consuming, I’ve tried keep a food diary online but I would often forget exactly what I ate especially the snacks, which can really derail a nutrition plan. I’ve been doing well so far on my nutrition plan especially on my main meals, but I haven’t been  making the best choice when it come to my snack, I haven’t been making horrible choices, but not the best. So for my own accountability I’m going to be using my precious iPhone as my food diary, I have yet to find a iPhone app that does everything that I want in a food diary so I’m going to be using two Apps Evernote and Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal. Evernote is basically a notebook that lets you take make text, photo, and audio notes. I will use Evernote to take a photo of everything I eat and track when I eat, where and with whom I eat, and why I chose to eat (hungry, bored, upset, etc.). I will us the Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker to track my calories and exercise. My hope is that I will always have time to snap a quick picture in Evernote and then go back and track my calories in the Calorie Counter. Anyone have any food diary tips or success stories?