Questions you can ask to gain insight into your eating pattern with a food diary

Amelia Freer helps people improve their lifestyle. One of the tips she gives to gain insight into your own eating pattern:keeping a food diary. These are some practical tips from Amelia's book Food. to love. Rays.

More insight into your eating pattern? Then keep a food diary for two weeks. A helpful way to help you determine which "one" thing you should stop eating or drinking is to keep a detailed food diary for two weeks. That always helps me to see where my clients are going wrong and it also benefits them themselves. For example something like this:

• Does your breakfast with sugar (cruesli), without fat (fruit) or only carbohydrates (bread) make you feel like a snack before lunch?
• Do you resort to convenience foods or prepackaged foods too often?
• Do you fall into the trap of low fat but high sugar like 'the eighties diet follower'?
• Do you drink wine every night that not only gives you more sugar, but also makes you have more appetite the next day?
• Do you try to consume as few calories as possible throughout the day or week, but often in the evening or on the weekend it often goes completely wrong because you are so hungry and you are tired of eating nothing all the time? may'?
• Do you rely mainly on carbohydrates because you think it's the easiest and fastest?
• Are you an evening junkie who indulges in chocolate and other sweets in the hours after you've finished eating and before going to bed?
• Do you generally feel quite down after eating something sweet?

Then take a good look at your food diary. Use colors to circle the different food groups and note how you feel before and after eating the foods that are often on the menu. You will soon find out how you relate to certain ingredients and what the weaknesses are in your eating behavior. From there it usually follows automatically what you should remove from your diet first.

This text and image are from Amelia's book Food. Love Rays.

Are you curious about the book?
Food. to love. Shine. by Amelia Freer is for sale for €22.95, among others via AKO or Bol.com. Keep an eye on our website, from Sunday we will raffle a number of copies of Eten. to love. Rays.