Track Your Progress

I have written many blog entries on food choices, quality diets, readying you for change, making decisions about change and so much more. Now that you have come to terms with making diet and exercise changes, are you tracking what you do? Journaling what and how much you eat can be eye opening when you first start. You have to be honest with yourself to keep track of everything you put in your mouth. Once you do, you will see where all of the extra calories are coming from. They are the calories that are adding up and adding inches to your waistline, hips and other parts of your body.
There are so many ways to keep track of what you eat. It could be manually, on the computer and even on your phone. If you are already tracking, you are on the right track. If not, there are so many on-line journals and I wanted to share a few that I have come across, which are all free. They allow you to register your age, height and weight and give a target weight. They all have food libraries so you can see how many calories you are consuming in a day. You can then compare that the amount of calories you should consume daily to reach your target weight. They also allow you to add your activity level because that plays a major role in determining how many calories you should consume. It takes some time to get started, however, once you find all of the foods and activities to add to your journal, it gets easier.
The ones I have come across are dailyburn.com, thedailyplate.com and my-calorie-counter.com. As stated, there are so many different on-line programs, so you should get the idea that this is important to weight loss and change in the body. These are tools that help you track your progress and allow you to maintain self-accountability. Let’s start journaling!