This tip applies to anything you want to succeed at, actually, but I'm going to keep the focus on weight management. As we wander through our day there is a strong tendency to pop things in our mouth one bite at a time:
- Spoonful of peanut butter
- Handful of pretzels
- Cookie from the jar on the counter
- Candy from the jar on our desk
- The last few bites someone left on their plate
- A taste of what we're cooking
- A soda
- Coffee with sugar
Do you want me to keep going, or have you got the idea? By bed time we forget anything we ate which was not a sit down meal. Don't believe me? Can you list everything you've put in your mouth today? Everything? Me either.
I strongly recommend you write down everything you eat at the time you eat it. If you aren't counting calories or servings, yet, then don't worry about that to start. We'll talk about that in another post. Just practice writing everything down. When you're done eating for the day review your journal. You will be surprised by what you ate. It's also likely that you ate less than the day before, simply because you didn't want to write down, "Three pretzels."
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