Get Up And Do Something: Will Keeping a Food Record Help You Lose Weight?

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Will Keeping a Food Record Help You Lose Weight? Feb 18th 2013, 11:32 One of the standard exercises of many weight-loss programs is keeping a food record. In the pre-digital age, this meant actually filling out a notebook with a notation of every morsel of food that passed through the lips. The amount of the food was to be quantified: If you ate a handful of nuts or grapes, you were to count them before swallowing. Ingredients in complex dishes such as lasagna, stews, or soups were to be teased out so their individual caloric contributions could be added up. And of course, beverages including alcohol, counted as well. One diet program in the l970s insisted its members keep daily food logs for the duration of the program. Members were to come to a clinic daily for a weigh-in, and at that time turn in the food record of the previous day. A woman I knew who participated in this program told me she used to sit in her car in the parking lot of the clinic to fill out her record. "I made up what I had eaten. Who can be bothered remembering and measuring and writing it down?" She was far from original in utilizing this strategy.

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