Want to keep a food diary? Don't want to enter all that stuff?  Take a picture, it last longer.

People who keep a food diary lose three times more weight than those who don't.  The first problem is most people quit a diet because of the relenting task of entering calories.  The second problem is you forget what you ate or how much you ate.  There is some good news. 

Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison had subjects take a picture of all their food before eating.  Unlike food diaries, the photo acted like an instantaneous intervention and forced people to consider their choices.  The research concluded that photo food diaries are better than a written one.

MY ACTION STEP:  I use my camera phone to take snapshots of my meals and keep those photos in a file.  The first thing this does for me; If I want a slice of cheese cake I can look back and see that I already had 2 slices of pizza that day.  The second; I have no excuse for why I gained 2 lbs. in one week.

That's when a picture is worth a thousand calories.

One Life, Live It

Dr, Bruce