Benefits of Using A Food Diary

There are nine benefits of using a food dairy with your weight loss efforts:

• Learn what you think you eat vs. what the food dairy shows you actually eat.
• It is official now, using a food journal, you will lose twice the weight.
• Switches the guesswork of how much & what you eat to scientific one.
• The diet software develops a perspective about eating vs. exercising.
• Get to see what the diet software shows are bad & good foods in your actual diet.
• Organize your eating habits, exercise and medical values in the food diary.
• Intelligently use the diet software to plan your future eating and exercise patterns.
• Select the diet plan of your choice to use with the food diary.

The Food And Exercise Diary allows you to switch the guess work of how much you eat to a scientifically measured one.  You now can know how much you actually eat.  This puts the food you eat in perspective to how much you exercise.  You quickly learn how many calories you are consuming and at what ease, and compared to how difficult it is to burn these calories exercising.

You get a sense with the food journal of how much you actually eat, which is a lot more than what you think you eat.

The Food Diary also teaches you how bad or good your food choices are.  You can easily learn what has a ton of calories, what has ton of fat.  What is good to eat more of.  This sense you will not get otherwise.  This, however, getting an understanding of your actual food intake is easy to sense with our calorie tracker and diet journal.

Furthermore, you can get a glance of all your nutritional data in one place.  In a quick and clean the diet software reports, graphs and views.  You can print these reports, and email them to check with your dietitian or trainer or doctor.

You can also better plan what you eat in the future based on what you learn in your diet.

You can make informed decisions, and scientifically breakdown your weight loss efforts into successful steps.

If you fail, look at the reports, make adjustments to the diet and exercise, and try again.  The food diary and diet journal will allow you to take complete charge of your calorie tracking and exercise management.

Based on the reports and graphs, and your actual weight loss vs. weight loss goals, adjust your diet and exercise until you reach the weight loss goal you want.

The following screen is the main screen of our Diet Software.  In this screen the weight loss journal lets you get a quick view of all of your day’s data.

The idea behind keep a diet journal and tracking is that you can tell what is going on.  If you just exercise without keeping a record of what you eat, you will never really know how what to do if the weight doesn’t come off.

By keeping track of the food you eat, and getting clear, concise reports all in one place, you will be able to break down this hard process of losing weight into beatable steps to become thin, lean and beautiful.

The diet software and calorie tracker is just a tool.  But it is a necessary tool.  There are diet software programs out there that measure from ridicules to powerful.  What I offer you here with our food journal is a clean, professional look and feel.  All the tools and reports you need in one place. For a good price.  Not too cheap and not to expansive.

It is also important to note that the Diet Software is a program you download and install on your computer.  You do not need to be connected to the internet in order to use it.  And you also do not have any monthly fees.  It is a onetime single fee of $39.97.  No more.

For instance, look at some of these screen shots:

The above report gives a quick, easy look into your daily food intake.  This way you can get a feel on how your diet is going.  You can see for instance, each day and how many calories where eaten.  You can see percentage of calories from fat.  And other good stuff.

Look below.  This is the Diet Software’s Nutrient Pro:

This screen can show total for a single food, for a whole meal, or for a whole day.  Here you get a beautiful look like the nutrient fact label you are so used to seeing on packages.  You also get to see percentages of fats, carbs and protein. These you can see both in a pie chart or numerically.

If you want a detailed view, you can scroll down to specific nutrients such as glucose, fructose, and whatever.  You can also hide certain nutrients that you are not interested in.

The Food And Exercise Diary is just full of features.  You need to play with it and investigate it to see and learn all the features.

Below is the Diet Software’s diet contribution report:

In this report, you can see for instance, that banana chips snacks has been accounting for more than 45% of all the sugar intake.  So if you need to cut down on sugar, this report shows you where most of it comes from in your diet.

For each nutrient, our software will allow you to see which and how much each food contributed to it in a given time frame.  So you can see where you got too much or too little of what you need to eat.

These are just example of what the Diet Software can do for you.  There are a dozen of screen short and reports you can use to learn about your diet and exercise.

The Diet Software comes with 50,000 foods pre-entered into the database.  The food database is comprehensive.  However, if there is any food you eat that is not listed, you can add a custom food to the food database:

If there is a food you ate that is not in our database, you can quickly added it in by coping the info on the Nutrition Facts labels off the food package into this screen.

The screen below is the custom food screen of the Diet Software.

This is the new custom food screen. The food diary in this screen allows you to define custom foods. The first thing you need to do is enter the food description.

When entering the description, keep in mind that the food will be categorized under all the foods based on the food description. So, if you have two foods starting with the same word such as Apple, they will be grouped under the same category Apple. And when you open the Apple category you’ll have two choose a specific food you meant.

So Apple pie and Apple cookie will both appear under Apple. And when you open the Apple category you’ll have cookie and pie.

Next enter the number of calories, fat, proteins, carbs, sodium, and dietary fiber off nutritional label of the food. And then enter the weight of of this portion of food.

So if you have 28 g of food containing 30 calories, 5 g of fat, etc. enter that as it says in the nutritional facts food label. You can select the weight of this portion to be in grams, pounds, ounces, or milliliters.

After entering the basic food information, you can enter any of the other nutritional values that are secondary such as potassium, Zinc, and other of the 82 nutritional values we track in the diet software.

At this point you have just to define the basic food make up for your custom food. So when you’re done, click apply. The food has been added into the database.

If you would like to edit this food values, into foot Explorer select custom foods, then select the food you want to edit the values for. And click at it to custom foods button on the top right of the food Explorer.

If you would like to add a custom manager such as one cop or one glass, then select the food into foot Explorer as if you’re going to edit to your meal. In the measures, scroll down and select add new measure. Then you’ll be able to add the new measure such as Juan Koppel one glass or one plate to your custom food.

Our food database has over 50,000 foods, and we update the foods database regularly. However, if you would like to add your own food, this screen allows you to do so.

The following are more screens and benefits of the our software

With our software, you will be able to graph your daily weight goals against your actual weight loss progress.

In the weight-loss progress screen you can track your weight loss progress against your weight-loss goals. You can create any number of goals. For instance, you can create a goal for the next two weeks to lose 3 pounds.

Select the start date and an end date. Select a start weight and a goal weight.

At this point, you have the report generated. On the first tab, you see how many pounds yet to lose each day, each week, and each month. How many pounds you still have to lose.

On the next tab, you’ll see a graph that shows your actual weight loss compared to your goal weight loss. It will also show you how many days you are into your goal, how many weeks you are into your goal, and how many months into your goal. You also see how many days, weeks, months and years are left to reach your goal. How much total weight you’ve lost so far, and how much you still have to lose.

This entire report shows you your progress in a quick view compared to your goal progress. You can adjust your goal based on actual performance to reach realistic proposition for your weight-loss success.

You can also have the Diet Software print regular graphs regarding almost any aspect of your dieting and exercise

In the graph screen you can create any generic graph of any data you have been tracking. Select a start to date and an date. Then select the this series you want to graph such as calories consumed, exercised calories, fats, etc.. Then click on the graph button. You graph will be generated.

You can print your graph we can use the toolbar options to customize your graph.

If you have diabetes, the best thing you can do for yourself, and to your health, is to keep a food diary, such as the diabetes food diary software you can find at Food Diary & Diet Software.  Below is an example screenshot:

The Food And Exercise Diary also comes with a medical diary where you can track your sugar level, insulin, medications, moods and feelings.  Just keeping a food diary with this software for a few days, you will immediately start finding out what you need to correct in your diet, exercise and medications to help your diabetes.  You will also find out what you are doing good and should continue to do.

Ron, a new user of this food diary software was having headaches for 5 years.  His doctors told him there is nothing they can do.  After using the food diary and diet software for just 2 weeks, Ron has discovered that he gets headaches whenever he eats foods that are high in carbs.  He reduced is carbs intake and the headaches disappears.

Ron has been able to do in two weeks with the Food And Exercise Diary what professional, licensed, certified, Medical Doctors have not been able to do in 5 years.  Best of all?  Ron no longer has painful headaches.

This is just one example.  When you start keeping a food diary for diabetes, you will see good results in your health even within a few days.

Below is an example screenshot of the medical diary, good for food diary and diabetes tracking.

Keep track of:

• Sugar Levels
• Insulin
• General Medications
• Custom Moods And Feelings
• Heart Rate & Blood Pressure
• General comments

You can create any number of medical records per day:

The Food And Exercise Diet Diary software is, in my opinion, the best food diary available today.  But then, I am the programmer of the software.  Yet, I hear the same opinion from many actual Food And Exercise Diary users.  To buy the food diary, download it, and then click on the ‘Purchase Unlock Code” button on the first screen of the software.

We worked on the Food Diary Software for about 8 years.  We have invested a great deal of effort, experience and thought into making this food diary the best it can be.  Buying a food diary is the best thing you can do for your weight loss efforts.  There is research that shows that keeping a food diary doubles weight loss.

Also, if you have any medical condition, then you should defiantly buy a food diary.  The Food And Exercise Diary Software comes built in with a medical diary.  This is where you can track sugar levels, insulin, heart rate, moods and feelings, and general medications.  It will help you greatly manager you health condition.  You will feel better.   Since keep a food diary with a medical diary will let you discover important things about your diet, medications and moods which will result in you figuring out what is best for you.

This is one screenshot of the Food And Exercise Diary.

There are two types of exercises: aerobic exercises and anaerobic exercises. You can record both in the food diary.

Aerobic exercises are the ones we use heart-lung and burned mostly fat. This is good for weight loss. Examples of aerobic exercises are

running, jogging, walking, bicycling, swimming. Any type of exercise which uses the large muscles of the legs, and causes you to deep breathe and continues for more than 20 minutes straight is aerobic exercise.

You can record aerobic exercise under the exercise section in our food diary. By clicking on exercise, add exercise, and selecting an aerobic exercise from the list. Our food diary lists about a hundred such exercises.

Aerobic exercise is best for weight loss and general health. It is a highly recommend.

Anaerobic exercise is exercise that brings mostly sugar, and uses less heart-lung action. Such exercise is not good for weight loss, and is generally less healthy. Example of anaerobic exercise is weightlifting, or sprinting really fast.

Our food diary is able to log anaerobic exercise as well. It is basically used to build muscle mass, shaped muscles, and look muscular. It is not highly recommended for weight loss.

Dear User,

Should you do the Atkins diet with our food diary? The answer is absolutely not. The Atkins diet is a very unhealthy diet.

While the food diary can carry the Atkins diet, I recommend that you do not touch the Atkins diet. The Atkins diet actually produces illnesses.

Stay away from any unbalanced diets including the Atkins diet. If you really set on doing the Atkins diet, you can use our food diary. But the bottom line is that away from Atkins diet is unhealthy.

I know of personal accounts of people getting illnesses of the liver, which cannot be cured. Don’t look for shortcuts. The are no shortcuts.

You need to eat well and exercise. This is the healthiest way to lose weight.

It is important to eat nutritionally. Maybe eat organic foods to help weight loss and healthier living. No strange diets.

Our food diary can handle any diet you wish to undertake. However it is recommended that you choose a healthy diet. And a healthy exercise regime. Read some books. Try reading the book, "ultimate fit or fat" by Covert Bailey.

Dear User,

The food diary has a body fat percentage meter under the analysis menu. It can calculate, approximately, how much percentage of fact your body is based on some simple measurements.

Body fat percentage is a percent of fat your body is composed off. Normal body fat percentage is 22% for female and 15% from male.

Too low of a body fat percentage is not healthy either.

To reduce your body fat percentage, you need to increase muscle mass via exercise and lose fat via a diet. It has been found with a study of 1700 participants that using a food diary will double your weight loss. So you might want to use a food diary in your diet and exercise.

Losing weight in an incorrect way, will also reduce your body muscle mass, which is bad. Losing weight the right way, will increase muscle mass. Increasing muscle mass, and reducing fat tissue, will considerably reduce your body fat percentage.

Body fat percentage is most accurately measured in a water tank. Where your entire body is immersed under water. This is done in a special facility. Less accuracy but less expensive way is to use the calculator of body fat percentage included with the food diary.

There are two types of food diary. The first food diary is a desktop program. The second food diary is an online website.

The online website food diary is slow. With each function you use, you have to wait for the website page to refresh. This can be annoying.

Additionally, since website programming is in its infancy, it is difficult to create functionality. Therefore the food diary that is on the website is going to be less functional.

The upside of things is that the online food diary is accessible from everywhere around the world.

The desktop food diary is fast, complete, professional. This is because the desktop programming is advanced. So more functionality can be included easily– more easily than the website.

Desktop food diary is fast to work with. There is no need to wait for the page to refresh. The page refresh is instantaneous. Plus, a lot more functions are included in the desktop version. More graphs, more reports, more functions.

The downside of the food diary in a desktop version is that you have to transfer the files manually between computers you want to keep a diary at home and at the office.

Also, a website food diary may be slow due to high number of users. Desktop food diary is a always fast.

I personally recommend at desktop version.

We offer both a desktop version and a website. The website is free. But is only basic functionality of a food diary. The desktop version is affordable but an excellent choice.

In my opinion the absolutely best food diary program on the market to day is the Food And Exercise Diary Software.  You may think I am biased because I am the programmer of the software.  But this is not true.  I am a computer programmer for over 25 years, and I know when I see a good program being my own program, or some other companies’ program, in any field—not just a food diary software.

You are welcomed and encouraged to make your own research and find a good program according to your own standards.  Today, I got a call from a customer who bought the program 2 1/2 years ago.  We spoke for 3 hours.  He repeatedly told me…

I don’t know you.  I never met you.  But you have helped by life in unbelievable ways.  I have lost 80 pounds using your food diary software while following a diet and small exercise routine.  I went from being a huge guy to a thin, muscle and attractive man.  He continued to say, his name is Ian, that he researched everywhere and tried all the programs available and concluded that the Food And Exercise Diary is the best by far.  He doesn’t even know, as he continued saying, if there is a close second to it at all.

Ian has been using the program for 2 years.  We never made contact until he emailed me today.  This is not an isolated case, I get emails like this on regular basis- most not in the range of 80 pounds weight loss. 

Rick for instance, emailed me a week ago.  Called on the phone before getting the program.  Within 7 days of using the FEDiary he has diagnosed what is causing his constant headache over the last 5 years.  His doctors told him it is stress.  He has been suffering headaches that have gotten worst for the last few months.  Finally decided to search for a solution, using the FEDiary, he narrowed down within about 1 week the foods that were causing the headaches.

This is possible because we have a medical diary in the Food And Exercise Diary, where you can log, among other things, your feelings.  You can create custom feels, and put a check mark next to them when they occur on a certain day or hour of day.  Using this, Rick within 1 week found a link between his Headaches and high carbohydrate foods.

I want to talk a little about what makes a good food diary software.

The best food diary program is composed of several factors.  The program needs to be visually attractive. The food diary needs to be informative. Functionally powerful. Uncluttered. And easily understood.

The issue starts with style. Each user has his own style. You cannot write a food diary that everybody likes. In fact the same programmer could write several versions of the same food diary.

The screens of food diary are very difficult to design. It is difficult to put all the elements of visually together. What makes a food diary the best food diary is the way you enter foods into the diary, and what you can do with them once or entered.

The more ways that you can manipulate the food diary information in different reports, better for the user.  It is quite a programming challenge to visually design all the elements. There are many elements of a food diary screen that needs to be designed together, and be visually attractive on the screen. I personally spent nine months on one screen. That’s the food explorer screen.

I suggest you click on Food Diary Program, read about the software, see the screenshots, download and order an unlock code.

Organic food is food that is grown naturally without additives and without chemicals. These foods are very nutritious, taste amazing, and are very healthy.

The downside is that they’re a bit more expensive than regular foods. In addition to doubling your weight loss by keeping a food diary, you should consider you can, if you can, organic foods.

From people I’ve spoken to it seems that natural weight loss occurs when eating organic foods. They are much healthier, and I understand the body radiates from happiness of consuming these foods.

Organic foods can found in special organic shops. In addition to logging in with the food diary, consider investigating and learning about organic foods.

I know of one case where person had many chronic infections in his lungs for many years. Requiring antibiotics every few months. Severe asthma.

After starting organic foods exclusively with vitamins and minerals supplements, the infections went away completely and asthma disappeared. For the last eight years this person has been as healthy as an ox due to organic foods. While before organic foods he was at the doctor every month.

I will not be surprised to find out that the cancer and all the illness we hear about these days are directly related to all the additives, and chemicals in our non-organic foods.

It is amazing the stories are I hear of people going organic with fantastic results. You may want to consider organic food and vitamin supplements in addition to logging your foods in the food diary, start exercising, and consider organic foods.

Dear User,

The answer is definitely yes. If you don’t have a physical disability stopping you from exercise, exercise is a wonderful weight-loss tool in addition to keeping a food diary.