From Gerry Pugliese
Diaries: Good for keeping dirty little secrets, love crushes, embarrassing moments and now, food. It seems corny, but a new study claims that a food diary is a valuable tool in helping people lose weight.
"It helps the participants see where the extra calories are coming from and then develop more specific plans to deal with those situations," researcher Victor Stevens of Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland told Reuters.
But the proof is in the pages. The study involved people from four U.S. cities. Those who kept a food diary lost about 18 pounds and those that didn’t, only 9 pounds. Clearly, a 100% difference is nothing to shake a stick at, or in this case a pen.
Now, researchers insist that keeping a food diary doesn’t have to be complicated; you can even use Post-It notes or text message or email yourself.
Actually, two other health-bloggers and I recently kept our own food diaries on my blog, Blogging and Dieting, a Follow Up…