Food Journal

I want to track my eating habits, but all of the apps have you input foods, and search, and choose the serving size and count calories, and offset all of that with fitness. But the fact is, my body, and the bodies of many overweight people, completely ignores the simple math of calories in, calories out. Metabolism is tricky, and my mood, the moon, and solar flares seem to have control over the calorie counts than I do. I want to change that.

The most successful tracking that I ever did was back when I first tried Weight Watchers, and we had these little paper trackers. You write down your meals. Either then or later you go back and figure out points, and it was easy.

Here is the modified points system that I will use if I am tracking points:

1 point for every 50 calories, + 1 point per 12 g of fat (I don't do the fiber subtraction)
I balance the calories and the fat and round up if it's fair. No gaming the system.

I am starting off with 31 points and will lose a point every tens threshold until I reach 21 points.

There are 35 extra points to use per week.

BUT keeping points is not the most important part, and I can guess or not bother for now as long as I get in the habit of keeping the food journal - daily meals and any notes.

And here are the other guidelines I will use:

+ Five Servings of Fruits or Vegetables
+ Three Cups Milk
+ Two servings of protein
+ Two teaspoons of oil
+ Six cups of water
+ NO WEIGHING EVERY DAY!!

For Fitness, I will focus on daily activity of 30 minutes.

My first goal is establish the habit of daily journaling for health and wellness and better goal and mood management and daily meal tracking so that I can be honest with myself about what and when I am eating.