Do I have to keep a food diary?

[7 Bites_Jen 479]

Thank you. I appreciate all the feedback. I was using a regular notepad and pen to write down everything I ate because I needed to bring my food journal to my NUT at each appointment. Writing in that everyday is not something I want to keep doing but if I can get on a website and track then I'd be more likely to remember and actually do it. I don't have a smartphone right now but in the near future I plan to get one. I think I'll wait till after I get the surgery and then I'll start to track since the food portions i'll be eating are different than the portions I'm eating now.

There are several wonderful sites for that. Two of the most popular are My Fitness Pal (MFP) and Spark People. I like them both for different reasons.

[RunningA5K 645]

Thank you. I appreciate all the feedback. I was using a regular notepad and pen to write down everything I ate because I needed to bring my food journal to my NUT at each appointment. Writing in that everyday is not something I want to keep doing but if I can get on a website and track then I'd be more likely to remember and actually do it. I don't have a smartphone right now but in the near future I plan to get one. I think I'll wait till after I get the surgery and then I'll start to track since the food portions i'll be eating are different than the portions I'm eating now.

Ree, you can access My Fitness Pal from your computer (if you are interested in that tracking site). I use it for my NUT visits, and you can run reports, and print it all off. I took a printed report for each day (food and exercise) and she can go through and see exactly how much Protein you are eating, and the exercise you are getting (if you wish to track it and print it).

I found this much easier for me than writing every thing down, especially when she started really focusing on the Protein amounts. There were some items that I just had no idea how much protein was in them, so I could just plug in that item and it calculated the protein according to my serving size, and it provides a running total for each day. I find that I do most of my posting from my computer and check in occasionally from my smartphone.

Just wanted to pass that along!