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Enhance Your Health: The Power of Keeping a Food Diary

Discover the benefits of maintaining a food diary to boost your health. A food diary can increase your awareness of eating habits, assess your dietary choices, and help identify areas that may hinder your weight loss efforts. It enables you to evaluate your overall nutritional intake, reinforce healthy eating habits, and tailor a meal plan suited to your needs. Follow simple tips for effective journaling, including honest entries and immediate recordings to prevent food amnesia. Utilize available resources to ensure accuracy in your diet tracking!

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Enhance Your Health: The Power of Keeping a Food Diary

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  1. Riverside Medical Clinic Journal Your Way to Success Health Education Department Anuli Umeojiako, RD Registered Dietitian Health Education

  2. The Benefits of Keeping A Food Diary • Increase your awareness of your eating habits • Assess how you eat and why you eat the way you do • Reality Check!!!

  3. Food Diary Identification of Problem Areas • Identify the lapses • Target your current problems and look into the root of the problems • Pinpoint the habits that may be the “stumbling block” to your attempts to lose weight

  4. Food DiaryEvaluation of Your Diet • Track portion size • Evaluate your overall nutritional intake • Reinforce good and healthy eating habits

  5. Food DiaryA Tool for Meal Planning • Design the eating plan that is best for you • Assess where the weight loss effort should be focused • Portion control • Calorie adjustment • Fat reduction

  6. Tips On Writing The Diary • Be honest!!!! • Find a style that suits you and use a convenient format • Write down what you eat immediately after eating to avoid food amnesia

  7. Tips On Writing The Diary • Write down everything you eat, including snacks and “munchies” • Record specifically what you ate, not just the type of food • Write down the exact amount you ate (ie. cups and ounces)

  8. BRAND NAMES

  9. BRAND NAMES

  10. CEREALS

  11. B O W L O F C E R E A L

  12. C E R E A L “I had a BOWL of LIFE cereal!” How much does your bowl hold in terms of cups? Or, better yet weigh it out!

  13. Resources/Tools for Keeping an Accurate Record • Measuring Cup • Food Labels • Restaurant’s Nutrition Guide • Books on nutrition information (Suggested book: Calorie, Fat and Carbohydrate Counter by Allan Borushek) • On-line website for nutrient information (www.calorieking.com) • On-line website for Food Diary (www.mealsmatter.org)

  14. QUESTIONS??

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