DIETMINDER Personal Food & Fitness Journal. A food and fitness diary that works with virtually any diet plan. Easy to use: Roomy fill-in-the-blank ... Journal weight loss will be the result

The first thing I would like to add, which doesn't specifically pertain to this journal but to diet and fitness journals in general is that they work. And they work well as long as your honest. Having struggled with my weight for the past 15 years I have tried so many diets so many workouts and so many different drugs, journalling along with a consistent workouts are the only things that I have had full success with. About 7 years ago I lost 70lbs from a size 22 to a size 2 it took me about 2 years, but by tracking with a journal I was able to take responsibility for what I was putting in my body. I was able to teach my self how to eat healthy without starving myself and working out and not hurting myself . Unfortunately about two years ago I injured my knee while hiking and eventually had to have surgery to fix it. Even though I continued my healthy eating habits I was limited in my physical movements and started to gain the weight back. I'm one of those people who must workout regularly to maintain their weight. Once the Doctor gave me the OK I was back to working out but with limited use of my knee I gained some of the weight that I originally lost back so from a size 2 to a size 10. I still consider my weight loss a success and having learned from my journalling and continue to make progress getting back to my ideal weight. Now for the reasons that I love this journal (and I also keep with me a calorie book for quick reference also the internet is an awesome way to find the nutritional information for most products) . First having a portable book with your goals as a reminder really helps with making the right decisions. Personally I eat 2 of my 3 meals away from home and having a journal keeps me on track. Having the personal goal as a remainder keeps me honest, and focused. I Love the Before and after photo spot my photo is obviously not flattering but I also have a photo of when I was at my peak weight and having that visual helps tremendously. Added is 3 pages to start your goals again this helps if you fall off track. The Daily Journal itself is simple and is made to be adaptable with any of the weight loss programs. Made simple to tracking Calories, Fat Grams, Garbs, Fiber and protein. It has two blank categories and plenty of space for each meal including snacks. I also like the time category, this has helped me balance out my eating time's insuring that their spread out; for example I had not realized that my meal times, all 3 were within 6 hours of each other so I started to spread them out father apart slowly this helped me not be so hungry when I got home and less likely to indulge in quick snacks before bed. The tracker also has glasses of water check at the top to keeps track as you go, Plus there is a Vitamins area and physical activity section that includes calories burned with time and intensity. Finally at the very bottom is a chart to help gauge the % of goals that were met. I hope this was helpful, and I encourage anyone that is loosing weight, maintaining weight, working on fitness goals or just tracking for heath reasons to give journalling a try. I has worked for me.

This journal has been quite the key to my weight loss success (75+ pounds). I like how it is bound. I like having two pages dedicated to each day. I like how there is a lot of room to realistically account for all foods. I like how there are pockets in the back and options to create your own tracking charts. I like how there are places for goal setting in the front and the option to alter goals (critical for me!) Personally, I think that the exercise notation space is enough for me as most of my concern is with keeping on track with diet, I am not aiming to be an athlete. My only complaints are very minor, I am tired of it being green and do wish it were more discrete looking so that I could journal less obviously. However, I find that I prefer this to any computerized/web based programs because it takes less time (some of them are so annoying having to browse through food lists) and I can do it anywhere soon after eating since my problem is convenient amnesia for what I eat if I wait until I'm at a computer. I also do wish that there were more pages, it will only cover 3 months. (Thus I have a little library of them, it took 8 months to lose that weight). Altogether though, this is the best journal I have owned and it actually inspired me to get cracking on that weight. Previous attempts at journaling were usually sabotaged not just by me, but also for the awkwardness of the actual journal and not liking how it was put together. This one though, I actually looked forward to using it and felt very satisfied with how accurate it was (for projecting my weight loss) and also it is so well organized and useful that I found that I liked to reflect on it and chart my progress.

I have recently bought this book and the The Atkins Journal: Your Personal Journey Toward a New You, A 120-Day Record . Atkins gets 3 stars from me, while this gets 5. Here are some of the things I like about this book: Format: * each day on two facing pages * space and helpful lines for tracking calories, fats, carbs, fiber, and protein * easy tracking of water consumption (though 8 boxes is not enough) * 3 meals plus 3 snacks (a pre-breakfast snack would add something IMHO) * space to track supplements * space for totals for the day * 5.5" x 9" (roughly) which lets me insert my daily exercise tracking sheet and several 5x7" cards with more data on foods I actually DO eat. * Covers are very strong Resources: * Goal setting is fairly robust - not merely focused on weight * Favorite Foods section has details on many foods (though most of them are NOT my favorites) with space to add more * Space for graphing progress (grid, you decide what you want to track) * Space for tracking weight, measurements, BP and cholesterol (though sugar and triglycerides might add value, and one blank line is not enough) Things I don't like about this book: * a bit of gratuitous advertising in the rear of the book * It is not very easy to ADD pages to the book (I used a glue stick and covered over some of the introductory pages to get my detailed food calculator in * No page markers (though small clips work fine) This is a great book for tracking food. I suspect the BodyMinder Workout and Exercise Journal (A Fitness Diary) is good for that, but I don't know.

Ich habe mir den Dietminder Personal Food & Fitness zur Unterstützung einer Diät gekauft. Finde ihn sehr übersichtlich aufgebaut und er hilft mir wirklich Gewicht zu verlieren. Auf den ersten Seiten kann man seine "Personal Goals" wie ein Gewichtsziel, die selbst festgelegten Makros (Kalorien, Fett, Kohlenhydrate, Ballaststoffe, Proteine, 2 selbst gewählte Makros(ich habe hier noch Zucker festgelegt) und Obst/Gemüse), die geplanten täglichen Aktivitäten und wöchentlichen Aktivitäten festlegen. Diese festgelegten Punkte kann man dann täglich durch eine kleine Skala "Hast du deine Ziele heute erreicht" auf den Tagesseiten in 25 % Schritten abhaken. Das Buch bietet auch einige Optionen zum festhalten von Körpergewicht und den Maßen. Bei "Personal Goals" kann man diese Werte für einen vorher / nachher Vergleich eintragen und im hinteren Teil des Buches gibt es auch ein Koordinatensystem, in dem man das Gewicht graphisch eintragen kann. Für jeden Tag gibt es eine Doppelseite auf der man jeweils das Gewicht, Frühstück, Mittagessen, Abendessen und 3 Snacks eintragen kann. Die unterschiedlichen Mahlzeiten bieten genug Spalten zum Eintragen der Lebensmittel. Am Ende des Tages rechnet man die kompletten Werte zusammen und trägt sie in die Gesamtübersicht der Makros ein. So hat man schnell im Überblick ob man sich an diesem Tag an die vorher festgelegten Kalorien und Makros "gehalten" hat. Desweiteren gibt es jeden Tag noch Spalten für eingenommene Vitamine/Supplements/Medikamente und die jeweiligen Aktivitäten. Das Büchlein gefällt mir wirklich gut, ich würde mir jedoch noch eine weitere Farbauswahl wünschen :-).

I am someone who has no problem staying within a specific calorie range, however I tend to forget certain food groups, or eat too much of one. This helped me make sure that I get a good balance of everything, and those days where all my carbs came from sugar would be more obvious. It's also got the nutritional info for many foods at the back, and some charts at the front to help with goal setting.

This journal is brilliant. Lightweight and spiral bound, it looks lovely too. It starts with a couple of pages on how best to use the journal, then a personal goals page with a space for photos if you want. Then the food diary pages start. Each day on a double page, it has spaces for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack, with plenty of space for each, I've never run out of space. For each item there are columns for calories, fat grams, carbs, fibre and protein and two spare ones for your own. Personally I only use the calories column. You then total it all up and there is a totals section for each of these. There are also check boxes for how many glasses of water you have consumed, and for vitamins/supplements. There is a small section (four lines) for physical activity, how long for, the intensity and the calories burned which is also very useful. And finally there is a small notes section (which I sometimes use for additional exercise if I've run out) and a bar to color in (from 0% - 100%) to how you feel you have achieved todays goals. I really love it, it is perfect as a food diary with every section you could want. If you use it properly too, I have also found it to be a good weight loss tool and lost around 7 pounds. All you have to do is be completely honest in the book - make sure you are the only one who ever sees it and it really will help you see what you eat and how you can cut down, and before long you'll be avoiding foods because you want the satisfaction of a big fat ZERO in the snacks section! :D It's great as you can look back at days when you have lost weight and compare them to when you have gained weight etc, which is really helpful to just see where you are going right/wrong. For example, I've learned that I CAN eat a small amount of chocolate each day and still lose weight and be well within my personal calorie/fat limits and that there's really no need to starve myself! Definitely recommend :D

Does not matter what type of food program you are on to be able to use it. There is room on the daily pages to add extra things and notes so you can look back and see why you ended up where you are and to refer back to the "good days" to repeat them. There is also space to record your own food choice calories, etc. at back of book. Am on my fourth book now.

Bought for my boyfriend as it's one of the few gender neutral diaries. He isn't very knowledgeable about nutrition, and using this has made him break down exactly what he's eating and actually understand where he's been going wrong. Unlike a lot of diaries, it gives a generous number of rows to each meal, so it encourages you to break things down and get a true figure, rather than just estimating. The spaces for personal measurements and weight-loss photos are also a really good idea and something many diaries lacked when I was looking to buy one for him and myself. It makes the book feel like a project book, which I think is psychologically helpful. My boyfriend is losing weight and I think this diary is playing its part. I will buy one for myself as the budget one I got myself is less comprehensive. The only downside to this one is that it isn't really handbag friendly, and is more like a book than the alternative which I bought for myself.