21 Days of Accountability – Day 11

Guess what, we’re past the half way mark! Although I’m yet to perfect living all my ideals I can definitely say what I’m doing is a vast improvement on what life was like just 2 weeks ago.

I’ve moved past the planning, moved past the starting and now I’m up to the part where I have to monitor what is going on in my life on a daily basis.

So today I’m showing another new BFF of mine, my food journal. (pictured above)

In it, I record the time I eat and what I eat. I originally had it with a Planned column and an Actual column. Side by side. The past 11 days though, I’ve just written my actuals because it takes up less room. I might go back to both columns though.

Now I know we’ve got a menu that shows us what to eat 5-6 times a day BUT the menu is just a guideline to help make it easy for me to eat regularly, it doesn’t document what actually gets eaten, putting regular eating into practice (for me) is a bit harder.

Using the food journal I’m able to pinpoint what makes me feel good, what makes me feel guilty, what bloats me and figure out why on certain days I’m hungrier than others.

I record everything, the good, the bad and the downright ugly.

It helps me see exactly where I’ve improved as well. At the start my first meal times were after mid-morning, now they’re becoming earlier and earlier as I work on getting enough sleep. It’s easy to see when I need to kick myself in the butt and pay more attention.

So the next challenge – try a food journal, it’s a bit of effort but for me it’s great insight on my real habits.

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