Eric has decided that we both need to keep food journals to help us keep track of how we are eating. He is correct, my portion control and food choices are much better when I know someone else is going to be reading it and possibly making judgements about it. However, I'm not quite there in my head as far as the "if you bite it, you write it" part of food journalling. Even if we are not focusing at first on the portions, it's just a hassle to do this if you don't carry a notebook with you everywhere. Sure, I can use my Nook but I don't have WiFi access everywhere. My phone has a couple of apps for food tracking, but one is rather an exchange diet tracker, it doesn't track the exact food so much as I ate a serving of protein or a serving of fruit or vegetable. The other does track specific foods, but they are SO specific it takes forever to get the right one, AND it requires you to put in a portion size.
Which are all excuses I use to NOT do my food journalling.
My reason for not doing it is much simpler. I don't want to right now. I want to get the house cleaned up before my sister comes up in July. I want to get the yard back under control after several years of neglect on our part. I want to practice my guitar and spin poi and do all sorts of things that I haven't done in a long time.
It doesn't take long to write in a food journal. It doesn't even take all that much energy to do it. It just takes a small smidgen of my brain to REMEMBER to do it.
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Yeah, food journalling is a pain in the butt; especially if you are a grazer like me. It does really help with awareness of what you are eating, if you can actually manage to do it. I've only ever done it short-term, 1-2 weeks max because it more frustrates me than anything else. I think it is more important to be aware of what you are eating and WHY you are eating it, at the time you are eating it, than knowing every thing you ate this week at the end of the week.
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