Printable food and calories chart
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When you use a food and calories chart to keep track of your daily eating habits, you are putting into place some powerful habits that will work with you to improve your health.What does this mean? Simple.
Here's a free printable food and calories chart. (Scroll down for more helpful hints after the food and calories chart.) (Requires a PDF file reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader)  I used a food and calories chart system to lose 20 lbs. Here are some tips I learned along the way.1. Don't just focus on eating less. Focus on eating better. It's always tempting when starting a new diet plan to go gung-ho and eat as little as possible. But that never works and it's dangerous for your health, besides. I found focusing on eating for my health meant I gradually adopted healthier eating habits over time and not only did I lose weight, but it has been easier to maintain that weight loss. 2. Make the food and calories chart your new best friend. Yes, at first it was tedious to list every calorie in every food and drink every day. But it only took a week or so to get really good at the system and after only a couple of weeks I was sizing up food with my new calorie knowledge. The important point here is to get the idea that if you don't list every calorie, at least at first, your food and calories chart will not give you the information you need to succeed. Click here for more tips about using a printable calorie chart. 3. Mindset is key. When I realized I think before I eat, I realized examining my thinking would help out my eating! I discovered I was self-sabotaging quite a bit.. For example, I might use my food and calories chart to accurately record what I ate for a particular day. When I examined my food log at the end of the day and discovered I ate a few more calories than I had originally intended, I had a choice. The "old me" would have thought "well, you've blown it. Might as well eat what you want." The "new me" thought differently, along the lines of "well, that's interesting. I think next time I'll have a handful of trail mix (my personal favorite) instead of that one cookie I had today. Now I'm going to go enjoy that book I've been wanting to start." The point? No one ever blows a healthy diet on one cookie or one handful of trail mix. It's the "well, I've blown it" mindset, that gets us all in trouble! 4. Enlist support. For you, support may be competing with a friend who's also using a food and calories chart. Or it might mean getting involved in an online forum of healthy eaters. Or it may mean determining to read 15 minutes every day about easy ways to add more nutrition to your lifestyle or trying a new, healthy recipe each week. You get the picture! In summary, using a food and calories chart... |
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