I Love my Food and Exercise Journal

I'm not kidding, I really do love my food and exercise journal! I've spent the last year and a half using calorie tracking apps like MyFitnessPal, which are incredibly useful and mobile, but I find that I need to see a visual of what I'm tracking on paper (the same way I also like seeing a printed calendar versus a to-do list on my phone). I found that I was using MFP to toy around and manipulate my food choices thoughout the day, instead of internalizing what meals felt healthy. I also found that the apps made it difficult to access a weekly report.I decided to get a journal instead. I searched around a variety of different formats, but this one seemed to cover everything: Calories, food types and amounts, exercises, ways to track and monitor feelings about what you ate and how hungry you felt, and a weekly progress report which allows you to weigh-in, and put into words how you think you did that week and how you would like to improve.THIS IS A BULLETPROOF TRACKING TOOL FOR FOOD AND FITNESSI think the most important aspect of developing better nutrition and exercise habits is by checking in with what works best for us. That means checking in on how you feel! It's so easy to try and quantify all of our experiences (pounds lost, calories consumed, calories burned, steps taken, etc.) but sometimes these numbers, when compared to others, tell you more about how you compare in a population versus what actually works best for you. This journal is a great tool for checking in on what you do, what you need, and what works best for you. You are your own best indicator of how you're doing, not a logarithm!One Critique:This journal is effective for only ten weeks. I wish it would have enough entries to last a whole year, or at least three months (which can be a standard time span for a weight training program). More pages, please!

This is a fantastic tool for healthy eating and healthy living! I especially like that it has checkboxes for keeping track of how much water I drink and how many servings of fruit and veggies I'm eating every day. I also like that it includes space to document the reasons for snacking--sometimes we're hungry, sometimes we're frustrated, etc.--which really helps me think more about why I'm eating and if I'm making appropriate choices.I've been using this to maintain awareness of how I'm eating and exercising, but the important part is that I'm not using it to limit or restrict what I'm eating. If you're prone to that, you might want to talk to a health professional about a good system for you. What this has helped me do is figure out what an appropriate serving of some of those less healthy items is, and also understand how it impacts my total calories for the day. I also HIGHLY RECOMMEND QUITTING DIET SODA if you drink it. That gets your taste buds and hunger signals all out of wack. Between quitting diet soda and using this tool to monitor how much water I drink, how much fruits and veggies i'm consuming, and being aware of calories and portion sizes, I lost 14 pounds in a month and a half. I didn't even begin exercising on a regular basis yet! Good tool, if you use it well. I plan to buy again for the next 10 weeks.

I REALLY love the format of this journal. It's exactly what I was looking for, and tracks everything I want - including the how I felt about my meals (the smiley faces). It even has weekly progress report pages.I only gave it a 4 stars, however, because of the 2 cons (which are pretty important to me). I'm still going to keep it and use it, but I hope that they update the book before I need to order another one (wishful thinking!).CONS1. I wish this had a spiral binding. I know these are harder to put on the shelf at a store and are more expensive and all that, but for a journal like this, it would make it so much easier to use. I would totally pay the extra.2. I don't care for the cover art at all. I like to have my food journals out and handy - but this one just screams exactly what it is, and I'd rather it was more subtle.I wish ONLY these 2 things were changed - everything else is perfect and shouldn't change (in case the author reads this).PROSEverything else!

I lost 20 pounds this year, and it's slowly creeping back. I knew I was in denial (when I was super skinny, I would talk to friends on the phone who would tell me - I just can't lose weight (while eating a dove bar and I felt like - really?) and this has helped some. It makes you accountable for what you eat, if you use it. I'm guilty of not eating all day and then having a big dinner, which I know is bad, but when you're busy and not hungry , sometimes things slide. It could be better. I have used a notebook in the past to record my calorie intake and exercise output daily, and this is, I have to say, in a way inferior to what I came up with before. But with time issues, I figured this would be good (less work on my part).But it's not. The secret to losing weight, at least in my experience, is cutting out unnecessary carbs, and cutting way down on sugar. Sounds easy. It isn't. It's changing your routine, which I'm working on, now. When I had my second child, I gained a lot and the only way I found to lose it was not to count my calories, but my intake of carbs, which was harder and harder to do, the more I lost. But I did lose it all. It's probably different with everyone, but this is a very generic book (my notebook was better, and more detailed), but it will make you look at what you're doing that you might not realize. This book made me google the calories in what I was eating and drinking and in my mind, it was much lower :)

I wasn’t sold on the cover but the contents are spot onTracks food plus workouts for 10 weeksI’ll buy againOne book for everything

The food and exercise journal helps me to count my daily calories and record my exercises. I have managed to get my weight down. I would recommend the journal to anyone wishing to lose weight.

I absolutely love love love. Very easy and fun to write on because you have two pages - enough space. I like that it also includes a section where it prompts you- "why did you have that snack or eat that meal?" You can also score yourself on how well you feel you did.

love this book , always tried to log exercise and food , took alot longer before this book , now it takes me under 10mins at most , great time saver and great for keeping tabs on not really being hungry eatting and exercise regimes , bad and good habbits become alot clearer by using this book .the lay out is fab:):)

Nice day spread for meal and exercise journal.Would be good to have a notes page and a weekly section for reviewing and re affirmation/ new goals page

This book is very helpful and it's a lot easier to track my eating and exercising habits. Already bought another one for when I finish the first one, and will likely be buying again in the future