Keep a food journal lose weight

What

I keep a journal of nutrition.

I really had no choice.

In the end I still fat, thick in fact, so I had to write my calories. There is no other way.

And seven weeks thrice weekly works only saw me two pounds, and my extensive, glorious statement to "eat food, mainly plants and not too many" apparently contains so much empty space, I lost it.

Since I started tracking four days ago, I lost 2 pounds. Oh my, it feels good to finally lose weight, even if it's just a simple thin slice at the beginning of the path that I plan to travel for the remainder of my many, many years, fit and happy.

Why

So far, the magazine is unfloudering my floundering, Debunking my bed; It keeps me focused, honest and conscious at all times what I eat and drink. There are so many great reasons, log food. Some I've been thinking about are:

1. after a few minutes each day will change your life forever.
2. I can't change what I do not measure: food tracking forces me to take responsibility for the selection of my products.
3. it helps me to identify problems. For me, it makes me face the reality that it is in the evening, when I'm calling.
4. Since my log saves automatically, with the posting, I can make changes on the fly, eat less and exercise more.
5. e-applications and websites etc calories and nutrients has never been easier.

Further studies have shown that those logging food drop more weight and keep more of it in the long term than those who don't. One of the current research project, which tracks more than 3000 people who have lost an average of 66 pounds and kept it five years have found that keeping a journal of food is one of the strategies used by most successful dieters.

The second study, it is a health insurance company, from 685 dieters found that the best indicator of weight loss during the first year of the quantities of food records stored per week. Finally, various studies in the American Journal of preventive medicine, stating that dieters, tracking their consumption in food journal lose twice as much weight as those who do not.

As

In particular I use iPhone application, MyNetDiary. It has a free version and $ 2.99. Download a free one and really doesn't seem much grounds for using the toll. This app is great. I love it as my C25K application that contains only (unfortunately?) five still works for me.

I'm still pretty new app and all its features. But what I like about it so far:

1. it's so easy to enter food from the application database to the 102 000 food and drink.

2. Automatically keeps track of how I am going with my weight, goal weight, the implementation of the plan and calorie and nutrient intake. In just a couple of seconds I can look at my phone and see how much I've done so far today and how many calories I can continue to consume.

3. schedule with weekly worksheet. Although I wish there were more than run rate options in the database.

4. a full-featured food, planning and tracking: 45 break down nutrients, power settings, power supply, auto logon name in food writing and activism, weight history, dumping food labels personalized meal plan, show/hide parts of the page and much more.

5. Automatic daily basic analysis report which can be printed or exported to a file. This is really cool.

And some other features that might fall into the later are:

1. Online mobile community for support, motivation and accountability. Support registered dietitian. Allows to Exchange diary with colleagues, coaches and nutritionists. Integrates with Twitter and tweets your diet progress and achievements for you.

2. tracking of up to 20 body measurements including BMI, BMR, blood pressure, pulse, hips, waist, chest, body fat, bone weight, hours of sleep, step count, etc.

3. Diet trend analysis with 9 types of graphs and reports with 6 periods, flexible, print, and export.

In addition to the iPhone app and it auto sync MyNetDiary website application available for Android and Blackberry devices.