Does anyone keep a food diary?

Does it help change your habits / is it useful?

I was sitting here thinking 'why am I so hungry, I have been eating all day'. Then I thought about it and I have had a bacon sandwich, a handful of chocolates, 4 mince pies, fudge cake with ice cream... so not exactly fulfilling sustaining food. And for dinner, went and had frozen pizza and oven chips.

I know it's Christmas so I'm not exactly worried about eating this badly ALL the time but I am wondering if writing down what you eat as you go works to stop you being 'bad' or if the idea is to take stock at the end of the day and do better tomorrow.

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wheels1972 · M Best Comment

no but im starting to count calories

wheels1972 · M

i believe that th daily allowance for a male is 2500 callories but because i am a wheelchair user and sedentary i should only be having around 1400, so i am going to be more alert to it.

annamk · 26-30, F

@wheels1972 I think that almost applies to more of us at the moment too, being sedentary has for sure had a negative affect on my waistline this year

wheels1972 · M

@annamk yeah, im going to try and be more aware, not cut anything out just be more aware x good luck

annamk · 26-30, F

@wheels1972 Thank you

wheels1972 · M

@annamk this is me now, ive got some work to do!! lol

annamk · 26-30, F

@wheels1972 I love it! Yeah, a little awareness and being sensible/careful is a good thing to do for anybody but I can appreciate all the more so for you.