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| Tue, 02-06-2007 - 7:44pm |
What are some of you using to track your food intake? Considering that people listed in the National Weight Registry have found keeping a food diary helpful in losing and maintaining their weight loss, it must be beneficial to do.

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I use the Mayo Clinic Food Pyramid. I have daily sheets to keep track and then weekly summary sheets where I can evaluate my goals. This works great, I keep it in a little blue school folder ... the ones with the three prongs. It's just easy to add new sheets each week and keep the weekly sheets as a record. I'm also using iVillages Total Health site as well, but that's more of a calorie check and it has reports where I can check the 'balance' of my diet overall. The Mayo Clinic Food Pyramid works great in that respect, you just measure the appropriate serving and keep track of the number of servings in the pyramid categories ... and it works out to be the right calories and the right mix of carbs, proteins and fats.
It works for me.
Colleen
Angela
I find that I lose a lot more when I am accountable for what I eat.
A leader in a WW meeting once said "If you bite it, write it".
I think it works,
Karen
215/215/175
(weigh in tomorrow am-hopefully that middle number will change)
Karen
Annie
Actually, as I was surfing the net, I found this really great food, exercise, and activity tracker called "Drawing the Line on Calories, Carbs, and Fat". If you want to check it out, go to www.advantagediets.com. All you do is draw a line between dots to track the food you eat. It actually gives you a sort of picture of what you're eating.
What's great is it has a pocket-sized food list that you can take with you and have when you make eating decisions. I think that is really an important part of losing weight.
It's so flexible that you can be on a balanced diet, a low-fat diet, or even a low-carb diet. And it's got so many other things you can do with it besides just tracking food. You can track calories that you burn up in exercise, note what your hunger level was when you started eating and when you stopped. If someone has diabetes, they can track blood glucose. It even has meal planning.
You should check it out. It looks like something one would have fun with and not get bored using. I ordered one today and can't wait to try it.
Great line - It you bite it, write it.
I actually found a great system as I was surfing the net. The food, exercise, and activity tracker is called "Drawing the Line on Calories, Carbs, and Fat". You can see it at www.advantagediets.com. All you have to do is draw a line between dots, sort of creating a picture of what you eat. It looks really easy to do. What's nice is that you can use food label information to "draw the line", along with the food list booklet that comes with it.
Since I think it's really important to have the system with you when you make eating decisions, I bought "Drawing the Line" today. I can't wait to get it.
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