
Keeping a food diary is one of the best ways to ensure weight loss success.
Everyone underestimates how much they eat and keeping a diary keeps you accountable and aware.
The American Academy of Family Physicians offers these tips on what to record in your food diary:
Exactly what foods you ate — don’t forget to include any condiments, sauces or other extras.
The amount of food that you ate, in either size or volume.
What time of day that you ate, and where you were when you ate.
What you were doing when you ate, and how you felt when you were eating.
Whether you were alone or with someone else.