Daily Food Diary

Do you feel at the peak of health? If not, why not? We all have some health problems in life, ranging from simple frustrations to life-threatening conditions and everything in between.

When you are young, you may not make a connection between the food you eat and how you feel. As we get older, we are more likely to question the foods we eat and how they may impact on our overall health.

When you were twenty, a load of French fries didn't seem to make a bit of difference in the way you felt or how you looked. Now, at forty, those same French fries may well give you indigestion and a lb or two on the hips.

Having said that the young are no exception to food discomfort. Perhaps you are lactose intolerant or maybe allergic to nuts. When you were young, you are better able to weather the poor food choices and may be entirely unaware of allergies that will come back to haunt you in your later years.

A daily food diary can save you many a heartache and a dozen visits to your doctor. Even if you're not plagued with adverse health conditions now, keeping a food diary can expose dietary weaknesses. Maybe even help you in the long run.

Whether you are young or old, your food diary will give you the means to monitor what you eat each day and week. While comparing what kind of effects your food menus have on you and how you feel after eating each meal.

Your daily food diary should form a journal. Make sure you included every thing you have. Have a column for the date and time, the food item and amount, with a column for notes. Snacks count.

Example:

DAY 1

Date:

Breakfast: Time: Calories: Total

Snack: Time:

Lunch: Time:

Snack: Time: 

Dinner: Time: 

Drinks:

Water 8-12 glasses per day:

Milk & Dairy:
Meats:
Grains:
Fruits:
Vegetables:
Other:

This is just an example, you can make it any way you like, included maybe where you ate lunch (at your desk), you could say what your mood was like (bored or happy). If you have no idea check on the internet always load of ideas there.

So often, we eat without thinking about it. The pounds pile on and we wonder where did they come from. That is why a food diary is useful to have and keep. You will work out your weak times and know what to do to avoid having that bag of crisps or chocolate.

If you are honest with yourself when you do this, the daily food diary will itemizes every little thing you have, even if its just one sweet you must put it down.

What about the foods you crave? Keeping a daily food diary will allow you to eat as you normally do, while, day by day, revealing those foods you eat too much or too little off.

We all think we eat the right types of food but do we really eat them, now is the chance for you to find out.

Keeping a keen eye on the calories and the nutrition you eat, will show up all the good and bad eating patterns you have.

The daily food diary may well expose just where you are going wrong.

If you have been feeling poorly of late but don't know why, take your diary with you went you next go to your doctor's appointment. It might help your doctor.

Do not only do this for yourself but for the while family, keeping an eye on what they are eating. Watching what they eat will make a big difference to how their health turns out in years to come.