How to Lose Weight with a Food Journal
- 1). Find a notebook that is small enough that you can carry around with you. You need to carry the food journal around with you on daily basis so that you can truly focus to lose weight.
- 2). Write down everything that you eat for 1 week. This will be your starting week in your goal to lose weight. This will give you a realistic vision of exactly how much food you consume on a daily basis.
- 3). Sit down at the end of the first week and look at your food journal. Look at what you have been eating and realize this why you have not seen any weight loss. The eating trends that you have now are what are causing you to not lose weight. You need to change the way you eat to lose weight. Your food journal will help you to do this.
- 4). Cut back on the amount and the types of food that you eat over the next weeks. Continue to write in your food journal everyday everything that you eat. By writing in your food journal, you are less likely to cheat on your diet to lose weight. You want to make healthy choices and keep your portion sizes small to help you to lose weight.
- 5). Sit down every week and evaluate how you have down with your eating through your writing in your food journal. You will also want to weigh your self when you sit down with your food journal. You can keep your track of your weight by writing it down in your food journal as well.
- 6). Make changes with your eating patterns based on how you lose weight with the food that you are eating. Keep making changes and cutting back on the food you eat until you have reached your goal weight.