A New Way of Doing the Food Diary

I am a total believer of the food diary whether it is hand written or whether it be utilizing ND's free Pantry. The May/June issue of Weight Watcher's magazine had a different take on the food diary. But I would only use this "short cut" diary when you absolutely have to, as it certainly would not be too concise and would not give you the full picture of what you are doing with your food, especially around calorie intake.

You still need to record food that you consume but when you have a meal, you simply place the word, "small, medium, or large"  by it. Then before your last meal of the day you check your food diary to see how many "larges" you have already checked. If you have too many in that category, you know you need to downsize dinner and maybe that evening snack. Maybe this isn’t the greatest of ways to track your food but it would be better than nothing and it would keep you aware.