Whether using an on-line system or a paper journal, your commitment to this valuable tool will help define your long-term success. According to Jennifer R. Scott, former About.com Guide, here’s why:
- You can have an honest view of your current habits.
- It’s the key to finding the way of eating you can live with.
- It can help you make the eating-emotions connection as to why you overeat.
- It serves as a tool that you can use later on to measure your progress.
- If you continue to keep your journal at your goal weight, it will help you identify the problem areas that have previously stood between you and long-term weight maintenance.
I have worked in this industry for more than 25 years as a life coach specializing in weight loss, and this is the technique I have found clients the most resistant to making a permanent part of their lives. Many have thanked me once they finally learned this tool so necessary to reaching the point where they can enjoy not only weight loss itself but also the rewards of successful weight maintenance. My response is: “I may have provided the path, but you were the one who did the work!”
And committing to and keeping your journal IS the work! Now that we’ve demystified why this tool is so valuable, there’s no better time to start your journal than TODAY!
Whether you use a paper journal, an on-line system or a phone app, finding the method that works for you is the biggest key to your long term success.
So pick up that pencil, click that mouse or open that app, and let’s get journaling!