Feel like you need to find a daily tool to keep you on track?
For most of my adult life I have counted calories. I tried Weight Watchers points, counting carbs, etc, but the thing that has always made the most sense was calories. Calories in versus calories out. Not to say I haven't had my slighly chubby phases but I always knew I had it coming because the math just didn't work out in my favor.
Overall I've been happy with my little calorie counting strategy, but every magazine and book I read suggests keeping a food log. At least for a few weeks. It helps you see where you might be deficit in some nutrients, if you are getting enough variety, and makes you accountable if you are trying to lose weight (seriously, who wants to write down that 3rd handful of M&M's?).
Lately, I have been tracking my food intake on Livestrong's daily plate. It's pretty snazzy. You enter in your height, weight, activity level, and goal (lose weight, maintain, gain) and it tells you how many calories you should eat in a day, and then displays suggested allowances for things like calories, fat, cholesterol, etc. It's also fairly easy to find the foods that you eat since it has tons of nutrition information available.
The service I have been using is the free service, but obviously you can get a lot more bells and whistles if you pay a monthly fee for the suped up version. But I am cheap.
Give it a try for a few weeks and see if there are places you can improve or if you are just generally awesome and totally deficient in lameness.
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