How To Keep A Food Journal

BuiltLean.com - Learn How To Keep A Food Journal. These 3 methods will make counting calories and keeping a food journal manageable.

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MARK: Hi, I'm Mark Perry the creator of
BuiltLean.com,

and today I'm going to show you how you
can count your calories

pretty easily, and I think tracking your calories
is the single most important thing you can do

to improve your eating habits.

And in fact, for me, I would say it's definitely
the most important thing I've ever done

to improve my health and well-being. I think
that's a big statement but I'll stand by it.

And so, there are three ways that you can
essentially count your calories

or track your calories

so that you can kinda see
how you're eating

and make adjustments to your
eating habits.

The first, and which is what I recommend
is using a mobile application.

If you have an iPhone, I've got an iPhone
right here,

my favorite calorie counting app by
far is the Lose It! application.

What makes this application so effective
is that you can essentially have your favorite foods

so you don't actually have to search for them,
you can have your favorite meals

so you don't have to constantly put in
the various foods

and you can add custom foods that are
not on the database.

Just those three things right there,

make it tremendously easy to count your
calories.

In terms of the Droid, I actually have a
Droid I use, I think the Calorie Counter

is the way to go, it's not as good
as Loe It!,

Lose It! unfortunately doesn't have a
Droir version, or a Blackberry version yet.

And then, for the Blackberry I recommend
Live-Strong.

And, just another thing, you don't have
to do this for like,

the rest of your life. Even just a few days
can make a huge difference

which is personally how long I did it for.

Okay, so that's the mobile applications,
then you can do with the old school way,

which is with the food journal.

And so right here I'm essentially
kinda just tracking my calories,

got my breakfast here, made my lunch,
and you can also see I have absolutely

terrible, terrible handwriting, so I actually
have a food journal I created for you,

on BuiltLean.com, I have a buch of kinda tips
that you can use,

I even have a better template, and then also

I got a blank daily food journal right here
again, it's a little bit more detailed,

you just fill it in, should be pretty easy.
Finally, the third

version or the third way to do it is you
actually just create like a spreadsheet

of the foods that you want to eat so,
the foods are actually pre-determined.

This is actually what fitness models
and bodybuilders do, you know,

when they're prepearing for competitions,
and really holding in on changing their bodies,

and this is personally what I've done, If
I really want to get extreme,

and I really want to get a very low body
fat percentage, just for kicks or a hobby,

whatever.

I mean, this is what you know, kinda serious
athletes do as well.

Again, I wanna emphasize, if you've never
done this before,

don't even contemplate, just do it. Even
for a few days, it's worth your time.

I tell you, it's the most important thing
I've ever done to change your eating habits

and improve my health, so thank you very
much for watching this video,


and I will see you soon.