If you're a yo-yo dieter, you may find success in keeping a daily journal. Keeping a daily diary is critical to staying on track and motivated on your diet. It's a reflection of your emotions and how they tie into your eating habits and behaviors.
Keeping a journal is also an opportunity to identify your diet habits and how they may be linked to stress or daily pressures - most times these behaviors are on an unconscious level. For example, you may notice that at 2pm everyday you begin craving chocolate or cookies and realize that at 2pm everyday is when your kids are walking home from school or the time your boss meets with you for a daily update.
Your daily journal can help you identify stress triggers that can lead to emotional eating habits and patterns referred to as impulse eating. Once you identify these triggers, it's easy to take control and change them.
Your journal isn’t based on a “star” system. It’s a reminder that we are human and will have weak moments but we can forgive ourselves and redirect (A journal entry may look something like this: Dear Journal, today the boss brought donuts to the meeting and I was starving – it was right before lunch and I gobbled down THREE of them! I think I should volunteer to bring the goodies in for the next meeting to include whole grain bagels.). Your journal entries should always include: What you did, how you felt, and what you thought at the moment.
Because life can be hectic, it’s sometimes not practical to carry a notebook journal wherever you go – Walk2BFit™ has taken care of this for you! Walk2bFit.Com is a site designed to provide dieters free etools to help them achieve success. The founder of the site lost 170 lbs. working with her doctor. She designed the same tools that helped her lose weight to help inspire others on the same journey.
To setup your free ejournal, simply register as a member, and customize your MyJournal page. The etool is 100% confidential and convenient since it's an online diary that you can take with you when you travel, at the office or at home.
As an added bonus, as you achieve milestones, the Walk2bFit.Com success team invites you to email your photos and success story. You will be featured in the monthly e-newsletter to inspire others on their personal journeys.
To sign-up for your e-journal go to http://www.walk2bfit.com and click on MyJournal.
