Benefits to using food journals

**Italianangel** · March 3rd, 2009, 01:54 PM

Benefits of Using Food Journals - Tracking Calories To Lose Weight

**mooshue** · March 3rd, 2009, 02:29 PM

wish more people took this seriously. Eating without tracking is like putting gas in your car with a broken gauge and having no idea if you have enough or too much. That is way most fail and give up.

**lizzyb** · March 3rd, 2009, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by mooshue

wish more people took this seriously. Eating without tracking is like putting gas in your car with a broken gauge and having no idea if you have enough or too much. That is way most fail and give up.

Tell me about it, lol!! I get a kick out of people who stare at me with that blank blinking stare when I talk about food being fuel....is it REALLY such a foreign concept??

**tooncesthecat** · March 3rd, 2009, 03:52 PM

I admit to being one of those people who never kept track. Now that I am doing so, it REALLY let me know what I needed to clean up. It also lets me know just how much more I can take in throughout the remainder of the day.

**A1food4U** · March 3rd, 2009, 04:16 PM

In the beginning it was tough. Everywhere I turn there is a fat laden sugar filled morsel just waiting to be popped in the mouth. Keeping track showed that all those incidental french fries I was grabbing added up to about 300 extra calories a day.