Permanent Weight Loss

The concept of using a daily food log turns most people completely off. This involves effort and time that most people probably don’t have, or at least thats what they think.

It’s true that keeping track of your calories with a daily food log may be a chore in the beginning. However, over a very brief period of time keeping a food log will become routine as any other daily habit in your life.

The benefit to keeping a daily food log is that you will know how many calories you consume as you go through your day. This will give you the ability to much better regulate your daily calorie intake than had you not kept track of what you ate. I use a daily food log myself and it’s very easy to do. (In fact I will soon make my own log availible to anyone that visits this site. As soon as I have a distributable user friendly version I will announce it in a future email newsletter.)

Once you know how many calories per day you should eat, you should employ a food log to maintain that daily calorie limit. If you don’t like the idea of a food log it’s understandable. If you are in this camp, you should really reconsider your position, or at least delay making up your mind. Why not try, or at least consider using a food log? What do you have to lose besides excess pounds? Probably nothing. Enough of that for now. If you decide to use a daily food log as part of your weight loss strategy than good for you.

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Hello everyone,

This will be a shorty but a goody. One of the most fundamental principals to losing weight is to watch what you eat. This cannot be avoided for most, sorry people that’s just is the way it is. The best way to do this is to monitor and regulate your daily caloric intake.

Unfortunately most people find this to be a big pain in the rear, and I agree. For me, and most people I talk to, the biggest pain in calorie counting is figuring out how many calories are in that meal you are eating. Yes nutrition information is on just about everything you can get, but what about recipes? When you combine several ingredients to make a meal you have the nutritional information for several ingredients with different portion sizes all combined into one dish. For instance, if you want a bowl of Beef Stew, you would have to add up calories for the veggies, meat, sauce, and then figure out your serving size and calories per serving. How the heck do you calculate how many calories per serving, or even what a serving size would be? This is a common dilemma that can put a motivational hamper on your progress.

The good news is that there is a free tool out there that does all the hard work for you. Just type in your favorite food, and it will come back with every possibility for that particular dish. This search tool will tell you how many calories, serving size, and give you all the macronutrient and micronutrient information for that dish or individual food item. It has everything, or at least I have yet to find a food that it doesn’t have. To use this free and powerful tool, just go to http://www.caloriecount.about.com

You may have found this already with a Google search, but if not you need to check this out!

Thats all for now, until next time.