How to use an online Diet Journal

Making healthier choices and changing your eating habits is challenging but with online tools it can become manageable and fun.

I have used fitday.com for years. It's free and accessible from anywhere that you log in-work or home. You can purchase the pc version, but I have found the online version to be very comprehensive and easy to use your free online diet journal.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Motivation
• Goals
• Internet

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   Go to Fitday.com and sign up. Take a moment to make your profile and a easy to remember password to login.

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   Take a few minutes to browse the site to familiarize yourself. Then click on the weight link and log in your weight info and begin to set your goals!

3. 
    

   The journal area is a great place to log your meals, moods, or anything else you wish to journal about your dieting experience. You can choose to make your diary public or private.

4. 
    

   Tracking your foods is simple. Just type in a keyword, like "bread" then find the bread that you ate or plan to eat and add it to your day, then you can modify the portion size with convenient tables and update the food option.
   
   What I like about fitday is the ability to add foods that aren't on their comprehensive list. For example, if I make a low carb chili, I can add the ingredients and make my own food item that will be there for use the next time I use the same recipe, with all the nutritional elements that make it easy to track my calories, etc!

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   Don't forget about the reports section! This is where you can view your progress. Whether it be your nutritional goals, weight loss progress or activities, it's all there in chart form that is fun and easy to use.

Tips & Warnings

• Fitday.com is not a diet program, rather a tracking program for whatever healthy regime you have chosen.
• Keep it fun, do it regularly, whether it be once a day, or once a week, whatever fits into your schedule or lifestyle choices.
• Always check with your Dr before beginning any exercise or diet program

Resources

• Fitday.com
• Authors Website-Simply Massage Therapy

[pieceofscrap]

on 11/24/2009 I hadn't heard of FitDay until now. Thanks for sharing!

[dividedfork]

on 11/24/2009 Great information. Very helpful for getting rid of weight. 5*

[grouch]

on 1/10/2008 This is a great tool and we can all learn from others. What works and what doesn't from the public ones. Thanks for the article.

[preciousbellaj]

on 1/9/2008 I think this is a great tool to help dieters with following their goals.