I want to see more Botts log you're food please

 

Good morning.  Great point you made.."Keeping a food journal is, if nothing more, certainly an exercise in discipline."

Thank you for sharing that, I think it's important to all of us.

 I journal each morning here and on fitnesspal.  It makes me responsible for my choices.  If I do not journal, I know I will eat something that I shouldn't because I don't have to confess to anybody or myself.  It is easy for me to turn a blind eye to eating and say that was not so bad but when you write it down and become accountable for it, then it is black and white for you and the whole world to see. This is a awesome tool for me to use.  Same with exercise, I get up early each morning to walk.  It would be so easy to turn over in bed and get another hour of sleep before I had to get up to go to work, but exercise has been really good for me mentally and physically.  My husband is an excellent supporter.  He got up first this morning and I said, it was really cold out, he said, you better wrap up. No sleep for the weary!!!  

                                                                                                                 

I have had a tough week of it and know that I dont log my foods when I know the result will be bad. Writing it down make me more mindful of the choices I make and helps me see that it is my choices that are the issue not some one elses actions or the situation I am in.

You are so right...
writing it down what I ate and ate and ate... and seeing the numbers may not make me stop and think that day ... but the next I think twice before I may eat that much...
One day this week I was upset and ate  and ate and ate and drunk some diet soda and ate some more... but I recorded that all... I was not a happy person... I did not eat anything that I can't eat... but it was too much food all together... and too much at night and that made me mad...

that day I ate over 2000 calories...and that was on a 1200 cal diet... meaning that I consumed 800 cal between 8-12 pm (midnight) and lots of diet soda...

I was not feeling great the next morning... almost like drunk... upset stomach, horrid gas, etc...

But seeing the calories... and feeling so bad the next day... will be a good deterrent for the next time. No more soda for me... that triggered the overeating...