Keeping a food journal will teach you about yourself and your individual nutrition needs. For example, some foods may give you longer lasting energy and more satisfaction than others. Certain foods may cause you to feel more hunger after eating them. Writing down what you eat and your experience with eating will help you to discover your uniqueness.
Carol Fenwick, RD, LDN 

“Keeping a food diary is a technique that works, and it’s simple to do.  It helps you learn to know yourself and your eating style. It’s an inexpensive way to improve what you are eating.”
Sheah Rarback, RD, spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.

At the Center for Human Nutrition’s National Weight Control Registry, they call food diary users “successful losers”. Over 2,000 participants have used food diaries to lose at least 30 pounds and keep the weight off for over a year.
Bonnie Jortberg, program director of Weight Management Services at the University of Colorado. 

Keeping a food record can create discomfort because we need to record the food choices we would rather not remember or it helps to remind us not to choose a certain food. Discomfort means conflict, which in this case can be good.
When we face our food choices, we can take responsibility for change them. When we are reminded of poor food choices, the discomfort we feel and the conflict we feel can keep us on track. Conflict is good, despite that it feels bad. When we feel conflict we are more motivated to resolve it or change. No conflict, no change!

Losing weight and especially maintaining a weight loss is never easy, it can be a battle. But, would you even work toward weight loss if you were happy with the status quo?
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