No Diet Weight Loss Tips – Keep a Diet Diary
Assuming that you wish to lose weight without avoiding your favourite foods or dramatically changing your consuming patterns then to start you need to consider keeping a Food Journal. It is a simple archive of what you have eaten and drunk over a specific period of time which gives you an accurate log of what you have actually eaten rather than what you think you might have. Often there is a big difference, which is why most diet experts feel that keeping a diet journal is crucial to successful weight loss success.
The no diet, diet focus is on the motivations, feelings and psychology of losing weight and the first step is to keep a food diary so that you become fully aware of your individual food intake and consuming patterns. Only when you recognize these patterns and what motivated you to choose them could you start to replace those old motivations with new ones. A no diet, diet program addresses the cause of overconsuming to enable you to regain control of your weight.
Here are some good guidelines for keeping a food diary. The first and most obvious is not to try to keep a diet record on scraps of paper, but to get a proper food journal on which to log your eating habits. A good no diet, food journal will contain headings that will help you to focus on what you want.
No diet, diets are successful because they train you to just change one small, little thing about your eating patterns on a regular basis. It is the accumulation of these little things that over time amount to big and dramatic changes in your weight. So your food diary should have space for the area that you wish to change. Typically these will fall into one of the following four areas.
Portion Size.
If your problem is portions: log the amount you eat and how much you could reduce it without feeling restricted.
A Healthier Diet
You will already know the foods you eat that you must avoid. So supposing that you need to focus on a healthier food log the food types you eat and more importantly what you could easily replace them with to lose weight.
Habit Snacking
Do you sometimes eat just because it is time to eat, irrespective of weather you are hungry or not? If so your problem is habit eating. Then archive in your food journal the time of day, where you are, with whom, and any activity that triggers the habit.
Emotional Consuming.
We all eat to make ourselves feel better, but for some this emotional high takes over. Supposing that your consuming is emotional start to archive your moods, emotions and feelings and how they connect to your consuming patterns.
Also your diet diary must track the foods that you eat, rather than the calories that they contain. What you are looking for is an overall pattern of consuming rather than a detailed record of the calories that you consume. Remember that when you need to lose weight, water is your best friend. Not only does it not contain any calories but it also hydrates the body aiding losing weight and may keep you from feeling hungry.
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