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Daily Food Diary Helps To Maintain Your Diet
By Julia Taylor-Fernandez
Daily food diary can help you to keep a record of your allergies
to foods and even help maintain your diet. You may have decided
to control the amount of fat in your diet and every day you look
at the scales and it seems to be increasing all the time.
If you write down in a food diary all the food, including snacks
you are eating every day, your doctor or dietitian can help guide
on which foods are high in fat and how to cut them out to help
reduce your weight.
Nuts Are High In Fat
For example, you may be eating too many nuts as a snack food.
Nuts can be beneficial in a diet and may help reduce blood sugar
levels, but they are high in fat. The advice you receive may be
to reduce the amount of nuts you eat during snack time.
Making a review of your options and changing the food that you eat
every day, may help you meet your goals, to achieve better health
when you are using a daily food diary.
Special Diets
Do you feel at the peak of health? If not, why not? We all have
some health problems in life, ranging from simple frustrations
to life-threatening conditions. When you’re young, you may not
make a connection between the food you eat and how you feel.
As age progresses, you’re more likely to question how the foods
you eat may impact your overall health. When you were twenty,
a load of french fries didn’t seem to make a whit of difference
in the way you felt. Now, at fifty, those french fries may hit
your stomach with a big plop of indigestion.
Poor Food Choices And Food Allergies
Still, the young are no exception to food discomfort. Perhaps
you’re lactose intolerant or allergic to nuts. When you’re young,
you’re better able to weather poor food choices and may be entirely
unaware of allergies that will come back to haunt you in your
later years. A daily food diary can save you many a heartache
and a dozen visits to the doctor.
Even if you’re not plagued with adverse health conditions, keeping
a food diary can expose dietary weaknesses. Let’s say that you
love peanut butter sandwiches, but every time you indulge in peanut
butter, your stomach becomes upset. Perhaps your body is telling
you, "I need protein." However, the peanuts have their
way.
Monitoring What You Eat
Your body gets the protein it requires but your stomach and digestive
system rebels. Whether you’re young or old, your food diary gives
you the means to monitor what you eat, while comparing the effects
of your food menus versus how you feel after eating a meal.
Your daily food diary should form a journal. Make a column for
the date and time, the food item and amount, with a column for
notes. Snacks count. So often, we eat without thinking. The pounds
come on and we wonder why. Here’s how to keep a daily food diary
that’s useful.
Watching Calories And Nutrition
When you’re honest with yourself, the daily food diary itemizes
every little thing. What about foods you crave? Keeping a daily
food diary allows you to eat as you normally do, while, day by
day, revealing those foods you eat too much or too little. Keep
a keen eye on calories and nutrition. Both good and poor eating
patterns will soon show up in black and white.
Keeping a daily food diary can help you zero in on allergies,
fat weaknesses or simple cravings that affect your health today
and tomorrow. The daily food diary may well expose just where
you’re going wrong. If you’ve been feeling poorly but don’t know
why, take your diary with you to your next doctor’s appointment.
It’s likely your doctor will pick up some clues.
Maintaining Your Blood Sugar Levels With The Right Food
Dietitians and nutritionists also recommend the use of a daily
food dairy, helping to keep track of the food you are eating.
For example, if you are a diabetic, you may need to keep your
sugar levels low, and you realise there is a spike in your sugar
levels, then you can look in your food diary to find out what
caused the sudden increase in sugars in your blood.
It may be candy, or a piece of delicious cake that you thought
was low GI that caused the sudden increase in your sugar levels.
Knowing more about the food you are eating and your reactions,
will help guide you in your effort to control and achieve better
health.
If you need to avoid high sugar foods because you may be a diabetic
but you did not realise at the time of eating that the food was
high in sugars, then you may be affected with adverse health reactions.
Avoiding High Sugar Foods
Keeping a record of your daily food intake and any adverse reactions
to food, can help you decide which foods to leave out of your
diet. For example, if you want to keep your blood sugar levels
low, then you should avoid high sugar foods like candy and cakes.
When you are cooking and you want to control your sugar levels,
then you can look at alternative low sugar ingredients. Instead
of baking a normal high sugar cake, bake a low carb cake.
Over a period of time you will realise that by knowing what you
are eating, and your reaction to certain types of food, is one
of the main benefits of the daily food diary.
About the Author:
Julia Taylor-Fernandez has written a number of articles on dieting, nutrition and cooking including
General Nutrition,
Meal Plans,
Teapot Cake,
Low Carb Cheese Cake,
Fresh Fruit,
Nutritional Information,
Healthy Appetizers,
Low Carb Dinners,
Health Food Store.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know?
It seems like society goes in trends. There are the new health
diets. The new type of exercise that can get rid of that unwanted
belly fat. Unfortunately most people concentrate so much on the
latest fads that they forget about the essential steps to having
a healthy lifestyle.
Herbal products abound on the marketplace and can be found in
pharmacies and even grocery stores. Nutritional supplements are
an incredibly easy way to help start on the road to a healthier
new you.
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