Or food journal if you want to be all macho about it!
Calorie counting is one the best ways to reduce the calories from the food you eat!
Remember you need to create a deficit of 500kcals a day to lose a pound a week and if you have no idea how many chocolate coated, caramel centred bags of deliciousness you have guzzled in a day then this could prove to be at least a little bit tricky!
I highly recommend downloading My fitness pal onto your phone for free. Click here to read my review!
You can record all of your meals, recipes, water and the exercise you do everyday, all day since I am sure you are glued to your phone and are quite possibly reading this post right now on your i phone.
All you do is input some data and the app gives you a calorie allowance for the day and every time you log your meals it will deduct from this,if you input the exercise you have done it will let you have more calories, so if your target for the day was 1200kcal and you had 900kcal for breakfast you better get those trainers on to earn your treats!
You can compare how well you are doing with previous days and with friends who also have the app,it has loads of foods and drinks programmed into it including loads of restaurants and major supermarket own brands to make logging food easier and faster,the more you log the easier it is until you come across a new food and have to search for it.
Feel free to try keeping a paper version but it is far more tedious!
I have used this app myself and if nothing else made be more aware of how calorific certain foods are.
Give it a whirl, all you have to lose is fat!
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