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Many of my diets have been unsuccessful over the years. I'm not proud of that fact, but I do feel that many of my failed diets have taught me valuable lessons. It is extremely important to try to learn something from each diet that goes south. If you don't learn anything, your mistakes will be repeated.
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One of the best ways to learn from your mistakes is to start writing in a journal. A journal is a personal tool, and I wouldn't normally tell you how to use one. But I feel I must share with you some of the ways I learned to use my journal.
For starters, write down everything that you eat, as you eat it. This may seem strange, but as I've mentioned before, many of us do actually forget some of the things we eat during the day, especially the small stuff. This is especially true if we are continually snacking. Do you remember how many handfuls of Sugar Frosted Flakes you munched on today? Was it two? Or was it more like nine? You must be precise in order to gain any benefit from this technique. Don't write down that you ate "some" M&Ms. Write down that you ate "three handfuls" of M&Ms. At the end of the day, you can take out any calorie counting booklet and add up your total calories for the day. You can be the judge. How many calories did you consume? Was it a good day, or a bad day? If it was a bad day, which items made it so? Can we cut back on that tomorrow? Great!
Don't cheat, and don't fudge (no pun intended). If you try to pretend that you didn't eat all that ice cream last week, and you tell your friend that you stuck to the diet but still gained weight, then you have more problems than just being overweight. Most of my friends can tell when I'm lying anyway.
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If you can't be honest with your friends, you have to at least be honest with yourself. If you aren't honest with yourself, that's called denial, and that will do nothing but continually frustrate you. When you weigh-in, you will find that the scale remembers everything you ate. A record of where you slipped up on your diet is priceless information. Don't deny yourself that feedback.
A second type of journal entry could be your weekly problem log. You only need to fill out this log for weeks that you didn't lose weight. You need only summarize what you feel are the reasons you did not lose weight this past week (stress, holidays, a sale on brownies, etc.). Here is a sample log:
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