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When it comes to keeping close tabs
on your diet, perhaps it's time to become your own disciplinarian. Unless you're a zillionaire movie star, your personal
trainer probably cannot be at your side 24 hours a day to make sure you are eating the proper foods. So, there's a simple
way to insure that you are behaving on your diet. Start logging your daily food consumption in a journal.Create three columns in your journal and label them "food,"
"calories," and "fat grams." For each day, you will specify exactly what you've eaten, how many calories
it consists of, and how many fat grams are stored within the meal. If you would like to be even more detail-oriented, make
another column and call it 'time of day,' this way you can monitor any stumbling blocks caused by late-night binges
or oversized meals.Many experts
have determined that keeping tabs on your diet through the use of a journal promotes healthy eating and stresses the old sentiment,
"You're only cheating yourself." Subconsciously, the dieter who decides to sneak that late-night slice of pizza
knows that he or she will have to write it down. Thus, he or she thinks twice about sneaking a cheat. Also, logging your nutritional
intake can help you to monitor certain tendencies and patterns, allowing you to make conscious, intelligent changes in your
eating habits.
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