Keeping A Food Diary Doubles Weight Loss
It is official now. Recording your daily food intake and exercise in our food diary, will cause you to be more likely to lose twice the weight as a person who doesn’t record their daily food intake. This is good news and certainly justifies the extra time it takes to record food eaten every day.
According to the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, U.S. researchers concluded a new study suggesting that tracking daily food consumption in a food diary can double a person’s weight loss.
Kaiser Permanente’s Centre for Health Research has researched using a group of 1,700 participants. They were asked to follow a low-fat diet, attend weekly group sessions, and exercise moderately for at least 30 minutes a day. After six months, the average participants lost approximately 13 pounds. More than two-thirds of the subjects lost at least nine pounds. The study concluded that the more food records people kept, the more weight they lost. This is according to the author Jack Hollis. Those who kept daily food records lost twice as much weight as those who kept no records. It turns out that the simple act of recording the food eaten encourages people to consume fewer calories. The study was published in the 2007 August issue of American Journal of Preventative medicine.