Knowing in theory what you should be doing diet and exercise-wise to slim down is the (relatively) easy part, doing it in reality is a different ball-game altogether. Keeping a food and exercise diary is one way of motivating yourself to put the theory into practice. Motivation is not the only benefit - amongst many other uses, by recording what and how much food you eat, where and when you eat it, what exercise you do, where and when you do it, etc., you will be able to spot certain trends that are holding you back from your weight-loss goals.
You can, of course, keep separate food and exercise diaries, yet you might prefer a joint one for convenience’s sake. You can easily design your own (there is no ‘correct’ layout or form), but we will provide a blank diary page in a future Playnasium blog entry. Grab a new diary sheet every day and file the filled-in pages in a folder.
Keep the layout simple (so it is more likely that you’ll find time to fill it in), but the more details you include within your entries - how the food was cooked, whether you warmed up before your exercise session, the difficulty of the route you cycled/ran, and so on - the more detailed analysis you’ll be able to do later on.
You will find such a diary interesting reading even without us telling you what to look for, but, to make the most of the effort you put into keeping your food and exercise diary, in another forthcoming article we will explain exactly how to analyse your entries.
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