Emotional Eaters Food Diary

Keeping a food diary will help you connect the dots between your emotions and the foods you eat. At first it may seem like an undaunting task to keep a food diary. But, in the long run it will help you stay on focus when dieting. You may think you're only cheating a nibble here or a nibble there, but writing everything you eat down on paper will keep you honest.

Be sure to write how you feel as you progress. Tying your emotions to your consumption in the food diary will mostly likely begin to reveal things about yourself that you would not have realized otherwise. In general, people who are overweight are often emotional eaters. For the emotional eater, keeping a food diary will help him better understand why he overeats and also what triggers him to eat at times when he logically knows he shouldn't.

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