Do you overeat while eating both alone or with someone? : Use a Food Journal.

Because of those problems, we need a tool that can track our food intake.

A food journal is a tool to track what we eat and drink all day long. We could track many foods from appetizers to main courses, and the last desserts.

Food journals also can identify our eating habits. Based on the purpose of a food journal, we can recognize what we are doing as to know our eating habit.

How do we make a good food journal? and If we do it, do a food journal make a great impact for our benefit?

Before we implement these elements, we should make sure about our purpose for using a food journal. For examples:

"I want to know how my eating habits."

"I want to track how much carbs do I intake for a day."

These elements write in questions forms, so we should answer it as based to make a useful food journal.

• How hungry was I?
• Where did I eat?
• When did I eat?
• What I ate?
• How many portions did I eat?
• How long did it take to finish my food?
• What did I do while I was eating? If yes, what was it?
• Who were you eating with?
• How was my mood when I ate?
• What did I crave when it was not my eating time?

Yes, it does! 

If we use it effectively we will feel the impact, but if we don’t or we do not have a definite purpose for using this tool, it becomes horrible.

A food journal is just a tool to help people recognize what’s wrong about their body, and try to identify what it is, then fix it step by step.

1. Why’s : You would recognize there is something wrong with your eating habit. Your 'Why' questions could answer it.
2. The environments and people can influence you : Everything around you can affect you, even you already try to ignore that.
3. Finding the root of problem the eating habit : You could find out exactly what you’re doing while you’re overeating.
4. Spoil the exact amount of what you consume : You realized that how much portion you eat. 
5. Bonus! Maintain the body weight : Your body weight will be stable because you eat well and fulfill your needs.