Food diary: a strategy to lose weight

go on a diet When I want to support myself for a while because I have gained weight and it doesn’t seem real to me, I always keep a food diary. At first I piss off at the very idea, it makes me feel stupid. A food diary . Today I do it using an excel sheet, and every time I discover something that had escaped me, and that in a short time makes me return to the previous weight . Only the food diary? Yes, just the food diary.
But let’s start from the beginning. Imagining that the reader is making fruitless efforts and diets to lose weight, and does not know what a food diary is or that the very idea makes them allergic. A food diary is a sheet in which we write down everything we eat, trying to be as precise as possible on the quantity, as well as our daily weight. I am allergic to scales, but in this case it is useful to weigh yourself every morning, at the same time, on an empty stomach. Everything we eat during the day and the weight of the morning should be noted in the food diary: it is also useful to write down how much we drank during the day. To learn how to manage our diet, it is also essential to have an idea of the calorie intake for each food, even without being too fiscal, without decimal numbers: today I ate 15 grams of peanuts after lunch, it means that I ate more or less one hundred calories of peanuts. Here, that’s enough. In order to know how many calories you are ingesting, it is okay to consult the site calorie.it

Let’s summarize:
– daily weight
– list of foods divided into breakfast, lunch, dinner, various snacks
– sum of calories per meal or per food.
Sometimes to be slim and fit more than looking for a diet you need to know what we are eating : we know the rules for good nutrition ad nauseam, eat varied, abundant fruit and vegetables, few animal proteins, eat whole-grain. Do we implement them? The food diary will tell us. Are we eating enough protein? Did that half-day snack realize how many calories it contained? And above all, there is no need to overstretch. Even when we only munch on a tarallino or an apple or a tiny piece of cheese:everything, absolutely everything, must be written in the food diary .
What are the benefits of a food diary? Lots! First of all, to make us open our eyes. About how much and how we eat, and how we can replace some things with others. Sometimes the written evidence of our food diet is enough to make us eliminate many small errors and habits. You will tell me: ok, but how do you do with the portions of a meal for several people, which perhaps contains many ingredients?In this, having an idea of the calories of food is useful. If you are making meatballs, you will add the calories of the ground with those of the bread or ricotta and eggs, plus the cooking seasoning. The same for a cake. This will also greatly reduce the choice of certain ingredients, prompting you to look for healthier and leaner recipes for the same dishes.
I know, it’s a pain to keep a food diary, but it’s just a matter of habit and it could change your life . Furthermore, it will allow you to understand if you can educate yourself to eat correctly and lose weight and to eliminate or correct many things: everything that allows us to have a more conscious diet without great effort or sacrifices and that is good for health must be done.