If you keep a food journal you could double your success rate at losing weight. A recent study of 1700 overweight men and women who kept a food diary for 20 weeks saw a greater amount of weight lost than those who did not keep one.
One of the extra benefits is that it is easier to keep the weight off for the long-term which is harder than just losing it and you need all the helpful tools you can get to maintain those lost pounds.
A food journal works.
A food journal helps you because they:
1) Make you accountable
2) Help you understand where your calories are coming from
3) Identify if any extra calories are sneaking back into your diet
4) Act as a deterrent - just by knowing that you have to write it down suddenly makes that second helping not so important
5) Provide you with a concrete record of your success
One of the enlightening...
