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Keeping a food diary

(HealthDay News) -- Keeping a food diary can help you stick to a healthy diet, develop healthy eating habits and monitor caloric intake, which are important in maintaining a healthy weight.

Try these tips on what to record in your food diary:

• exactly what foods you ate -- don't forget to include any condiments, sauces or other extras
• the amount of food that you ate, in either size or volume
• what time of day that you ate, and where you were when you ate
• what you were doing when you ate, and how you felt when you were eating
• whether you were alone or with someone else.

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First published: 09/21/2011
Last updated: 09/21/2011

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