Lose Weight By Writing

Write it down and lose weight!

I can almost guarantee you will lose weight if you start writing down every bit of food you eat. Try it for a week, try it for a month. You will soon see a difference in the type and amount of food you're eating. The whole idea is to be totally, brutally honest. After all you'd only be cheating yourself if you weren't.

Listen for the foods that hum to you. Look at your list and recognise how many of those foods hummed to you and which ones beckoned. (Read the first post in this blog if you haven't yet) If you keep writing and listening your list will gradually change. Stop finishing your dinner just because it's 'there'. If your body is telling you enough, better in the trash than in your stomach. (and no starving children across the world will suffer because you didn't finish everything on the plate!) NEVER eat just to be polite. It's easy to say a gracious 'no thanks' when that second helping of dessert or cake is offered.

As easy as it sounds, writing down every morsel of food that passes your lips is sometimes quite difficult to do. You can't very well be scribbling notes over dinner with friends. But you can take mental notes and keep your list handy so that you can update it when convenient. If you leave it until the end of the day you'll find yourself forgetting things for sure.

Here's my list for week 3.

My food intake from Sunday 21 Jan to Saturday 28 Jan

2 black coffee
sml vanilla yogurt
2 nectarines
bowl muesli
Baileys/vodka over shaved ice
Bowl Spag Bol
pineapple juice

2 black coffee
2 pieces Bergen seed toast w vegemite
1 nectarine
1 fruits of forest muesli bar
1 miniz ice block
piece grilled fish on lettuce
1 potato with butter and coleslaw
pineapple juice

2 black coffee
bowl muesli
glass energy cocktail (banana/OJ/carrot)
4 cad roses chocolates
10 Allens naturals jubes
grilled fish w coleslaw
1 small potato
pineapple juice

2 black coffee
1 wholegrain toast w crab pate
glass energy cocktail (banana/guava juice/carrot/yogurt/nectarine)
6 cracker biscuits w seafood dip
laksa w noodles, prawns, chicken and chinese veg
4 fantales & 10 jaffas
pineapple juice

2 black coffee
1 english muffin w jam
glass juice (banana/guava juice/carrot/yogurt/nectarine)
1/2 TimeOut choc bar
2 italian fairy cakes
3 slices pizza
pineapple juice

2 black coffee
glass energy cocktail (banana/guava juice/carrot/yogurt/peach)
handful smarties
1 cadbury roses choc
grilled fish
Greek salad
1 nectarine
pineapple juice