Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

If I was asked to pick one single key to the success of every one of my clients it would be keeping a food journal. If we don't know where we are it is impossible to know where we are going...and more importantly how we are going to get there.

Having said that, I know that food journals can be a hassle. Oftentimes it is a miracle that I find enough time to eat let alone write it all down. When I do write it down it is usually from memory and that is rarely accurate. For instance I remember my prom dress as being beautiful and quite flattering…I have a feeling I might be wrong about that!

So instead of keeping a written journal why not try keeping a visual journal? Use your camera phone or digital camera to record everything that you eat. At the end of the day you can either just review the pictures or use them to enter information into an free online calorie tracker (www.fitday.com is my personal favorite) and see exactly what you are putting into your body.

Now, I never ask my clients to do anything that I haven't done I will be keeping a visual journal on this blog for the next week. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I'm a little terrified of putting everything I eat on the world wide web but sometimes you just gotta jump! So check back often to help keep me accountable. Here we go...