No clue too small, keep a journal for successful weight loss

Have you ever thought about keeping a food/mood journal, but couldn’t see the point?

It has been discovered that people who keep food/mood journals lose weight and maintain their weight better than people who don’t!

How to keep a journal?

Some people just use scrap paper, others buy beautiful purpose designed journals that give them daily inspiration, while others prefer to use their computers. Its up to you what ever feels good to you, we are all different.

What ever method you choose, be honest with yourself and try in enter information everyday. Enter what you eat sure, but also enter your symptoms, ie did you sleep well, have a got a headache, did you have more or less aches and pains before a period, and how you felt – good mood or anxious etc.

As the days go by you will see patterns emerging – for instance if you have regular headaches – it could be you forgot to drink enough water on some previous days. Being dehydrated will sabotage your weight-loss. If you didn’t sleep well, check what you did the day before, being tired also sabotages your weight-loss.

Your journal should be more than a quick inventory of what you ate and drank that day. If you note down everything, it will enlighten you to every aspect of your life for the first time. It is well worth time time and effort. Don’t worry you won’t have do this for the rest of your life unless you want to, of-course.

So use your journal like a detective would – as they say no clue too small.