Food journals are an incredible tool for providing a detailed record of your food and beverage intake. Maintaining a food journal is extremely valuable for people with a variety of personal goals.
If you are trying to lose (or gain) weight, food journaling can play a huge role in your success. People who have lost weight and who are able to sustain their loss often report that recording what they eat on a daily basis was one of the keys to their weight loss achievement. A journal gives you instant information telling you how many calories and grams of protein, fat, carbohydrate, and fiber you have consumed. If you enter in your age, weight, height, and activity level, you will get an estimation of your daily caloric needs that you can use to compare to what you are actually eating. There is even a page for tracking your exercise which will estimate any extra calories burned. You can then shoot for eating fewer calories and/or exercising more to lose weight and monitor your progress.
