If you are serious about weight loss and want to success in a weight loss program, you have to concern about what you eat and do in your daily basis. Losing weight needs both time and effort to see rewarding results.
During the initial stage of a weight loss program, record keeping can help you plotting your eating and activity patterns – what, where, why, when and how you eat, as well as how active you are. Records are extremely important, because most of us underestimate how much we eat, and overestimate how much activity we get involved. The only way to be completely truthful and to avoid lapses of memory is to write it down if you want to success in your weight loss program.
Why we need to keep eating records in weight loss program
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women take 335 more calories per day (about 20% more) than they did back in 1971. If you crunch the number, 335 more calories a day will result in about 16kg of weight gain a year! Men consume only 168 more calories per day, which will result a weight gain of (only!) 8kg each year. The figure is scary, right? That is why we need to keep eating records in a weight loss program.
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