lundi 16 décembre 2013

The Very Best Strategy To Track Your Food

By Terri Peterson


When you go on a diet one of the very first things that you will learn is that it is important to keep track of what you eat during the day. Keeping your food journal not only helps you see clearly what you are eating, it helps you see what you are not eating. For example, after keeping a food journal for a few days, you might see that you are not taking in very many vegetables but that you are consuming lots of sugar and bad carbohydrates. When you write everything down you can see which parts of your diet must change as well as have an easier time figuring out what kind and how long of a workout you need to do to shrink your waist line and burn the most calories.

But imagine if you write each and every thing down but still can't figure out how to lose fat? There is a great way and a idle way to track the food you eat. A food record isn't only a list of the things you've eaten during the day. You must keep track of some other very important information. Here are a number of the elements you need to do to be more effective at food tracking.

Be as specific as possible get when you write down the things you eat. It is not adequate to list "salad" in your food log. You must list every one of the ingredients within that salad as well as the type of dressing on it. You also need to include the number of the foods you eat. "Cereal" will not be enough although "one cup Fiber One cereal" is acceptable. It is very important to understand that the larger your portions, the more calories you will be eating so you need to know just how much of every thing you actually eat so that you can figure out how many calories you will need to work off.

Record the time of day that you take in things. This helps you see what times of day you feel the hungriest, when you're likely to reach for a snack and how to work around those times. You'll observe, for example, that although you eat lunch at the identical time every day, you also--without fail--start to snack as little as an hour later, every day. You could also be able to recognize when you are eating only to have something to do. This is significant because those are moments that you can choose other things to fill your time with than food.



What type of feelings are you in when you eat? Write it down! This can help you figure out when you use food to help soothe emotional issues. This may also show you whether or not you gravitate toward specific foods based on your mood. There a wide range of people who seek junk food when they feel angry or depressed and are just as likely to pick out healthy things when they feel happy and content. Paying attention to what you reach for while you are upset will help you stock similar but more healthy items in your house for when you need a snack-you could also begin talking to someone to figure out why you cure moods with food (if that is something that you actually do).




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