Your weight loss goals are attainable if you consume fewer calories than you expend. It’s not brain surgery, but it takes will power and perseverance. A step in the right direction is to journal your food intake, exercise, thoughts and moods. Journaling can help you to identify what is going on with your lifestyle, either good or bad, and can prompt you to make slight changes to become a healthier person.

How to Journal:

Online journals make it easier, but if there is no access to a computer, keep a notepad with you at all times to write down what you consume. You can always transfer it later in the day. No one ever has to see your food diary, so make sure that you are completely honest with portions and what you consumed. If you walked into a co-worker’s office and grab a handful of jelly beans from their candy jar, ask for a sticky note to right it down and put in your pocket. Try not to give yourself any reason not to journal.

A last bit of advice for you ... keep it up! Journaling only gets easier the more you do it. my-calorie-counter offers a FREE online diet and exercise journal and includes a list of recent food and exercise entries for those creatures of habit that eat the same foods with only slight variations. Additionally, my-calorie-counter provides the ability to create custom lists of foods, meals and activities that you create once, and is then saved into your options list forever to make it easy to find ... day-in and day-out.

Happy journaling!

Contributor: Mike Moorehead, my-calorie-counter.com