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A Fitness Journal Will Help You Lose Weight

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When you are ready to lose weight, start keeping a fitness journal. It is a proven fact that women who keep a food diary or journal of everything they eat and drink and all of the activity that they do; have a far greater chance of success than those who do not. Just like diet and exercise, journaling is an essential element to weight loss.

A journal is similar to a diary, except that it is a bit more detailed. A fitness journal should be able to track your progress every day. Your fitness journal can be your own private story of your eating habits and your fitness level. Be sure to write your goals each week to keep your journal and diet from becoming mundane and boring.

Before you begin, recording your goals, you’ll want written proof of where you started. What was your weight before you began losing pounds and inches? To have an accurate account of this most important part of your fitness plan you will need to write it down in the very beginning. Use your fitness journal to write down your starting weight, your measurements, your current size and your weight loss and fitness goals.

It doesn’t take much time to keep your journal current; just remember to record everything you eat at snacks and regular meals. The mere act of writing down what you eat at each meal; makes it easier to choose wisely at the next meal. You can also use your journal to write down how you feel when you eat. Are you starving, do you feel guilty about your food choices, do you continue to eat past the point of being full? Addressing these issues can help to determine what your eating patterns are.

Eating should be a celebratory time and never laden with guilt. You can make healthy choices about what you eat and still take pleasure in your food. Feelings of guilt will only make you feel disappointed in yourself. Keep in mind that food is not the problem; food is the answer. Your diet is your way of life; it is what sustains you and makes you whole.

Keeping a fitness journal will keep you accountable, not only for your weight loss but for your overall fitness health. Your fitness journal will be the proof behind your efforts and will give you a clear view of what is working and what isn’t.

The Write Way To Lose Weight

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If you are serious about losing weight and getting fit, I have the secret to help you slim down and shape up permanently. Start your own fitness journal. Journaling is the single most easiest activity to add to your diet and workout plan, and one of the most powerful tools to guarantee success.

It has been proven time and again that people who keep a fitness journal have a far greater chance at successful weight loss than those who do not. Writing is one of the best ways to hold yourself accountable to your goals and your behavior. Don’t keep those thoughts bottled up inside, get out a pen and paper and start writing.

In order to get the most benefit from your fitness journal you must be honest with yourself. Make an entry for each day and write down everything you eat and drink. Everything. After you become accustomed to the accountability and self-scrutiny, you can begin to track your exercise and physical activities that you do each day.

Keeping a journal will help you determine the direction for your diet. You will be able to better understand when you tend to eat more than other times. This can help you to plan your meal times to better suit your hunger needs. Perhaps a bigger breakfast and a smaller lunch, or maybe a bigger lunch and smaller dinner are more suitable to your body. Controlling your portion size is a major factor when you want to manage your weight so be sure to write down the exact amount you are eating.

I find that actually writing with paper and pen work best for me, but you may find that your mobile device or computer are better for storing your data. There is something very personal about actually writing that keeps me accountable but if your online journal works for you, by all means continue with anything you are comfortable with.

Another great thing about journaling is being able to look back and see how far you have come. Especially, at times when there doesn’t seem to be any changes in my body, when I seem to have reached a plateau, I can look back in my journal and see how it was in the beginning or even a few months ago. I even write down new foods that I try and how they taste in the beginning versus how they taste as I begin to add them to my diet, preparing them in different ways.

Your fitness journal is your secret pal to losing weight. It will never judge you, never put you down and always be there to cheer you on and will provide the proof you need to know you have what it takes to be a success.