Spring Clean Your Diet! This week I would like you to take a good hard look at your diet. If it helps, write down everything you eat and drink and the time you eat it and anything you put in it and on it. At the end of the week, take an hour or so and do a basic caloric review to see if you are eating way too much, or perhaps not enough and also what time of day you consume the most calories. This can be a lot of work but sometimes just writing down the foods you eat can open your eyes as to what is going in.
There is a very popular ap you can download if you have an i-phone or i-pad called myfitnesspal (I think). This ap is set up so you can input all of your daily food intake as well as your exercise routine and it will break down the calories, fats, proteins etc. for you.
At the same time you are doing this, try working on decreasing the food items you know you eat or drink too much of such as pop, coffee, treats, butter etc.
Don't eliminate! Heaven forbid! Just decrease. Good luck.
Last week was an easy challenge as it's already something I do. I do also usually write down everything I eat although I have never actually checked the calorie intake. It just makes me so much more aware of what I am actually eating and it stops the little bite of this, bite of that nibbles that add up. I have lost five pounds by following your blog and keeping up many of the challenges you have given to us. Five pounds may not be much but it sure feels good! Thanks!
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