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mardi 12 novembre 2013

Tracking Your Foods: The Right Way To Do It

By Carol Reid


When you begin your diet one of the things you will learn right away is that maintaining a food journal is very helpful. Tracking all of the food you take in can help you figure out which foods you will be eating as well as which foods you are not eating enough of. For example, after retaining a food record for a few days, you might see that you are not consuming very many vegetables but that you are consuming lots of sugar and bad carbohydrates. Writing all of it down can help you see exactly which parts of your diet really need to change as well as how much exercise you are going to need to do to make sure that you keep your caloric intake in check.

But what if you write every little thing down but no weight drop off of you? You can track your food the correct way or the wrong way. A food journal is more than just a basic list of the foods you eat during a day. You need to account for a few other very important information. Here are a few tips that you can employ to help your food tracking be more successful.

You ought to be very specific whenever you write down the things that you are eating. It is not adequate to list "salad" in your food record. Write down all the ingredients in the salad and the type of dressing you used. You also need to include the quantities of the foods you take in. "Cereal" just isn't good, however "one cup Shredded Wheat" will be. It is very important to understand that the larger your servings, 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.

Write down what time of day it is when you eat. This allows you to see what times of day you feel the hungriest, when you find yourself likely to reach for a snack and the right way to work around those times. You'll notice, for example, that though you eat lunch at the exact same time every day, you also--without fail--start to snack as little as an hour later, every day. This will even enable you to identify the times when you start to eat simply to give yourself something to do. This is critical because, once they are revealed, you can find alternative ways to fill those moments than with unhealthy foods.



Write down your feelings whenever you eat. This makes it possible to determine when you use foods to help soothe emotional issues. It will even identify the foods you choose when you are in certain moods. Lots of us will reach instinctively for processed food when we feel upset or angry and we are more likely to pick out healthy options when we feel happy or content. Not only will this allow you to notice when you reach for precise foods based on your mood, it will help you find ways to keep healthier (but similar) options on hand for those same moods and help you figure out whether or not someone professional can help you deal with the issues that are sending you towards certain foods in the first place.




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