Want to Lose Weight for the Long Haul? Start Writing!
Want to Lose Weight for the Long Haul? Start Writing! By Tina Haupert For most of my life, calories never crossed my mind�and counting calories was an even more foreign concept to me! Of course, I knew that I was eating fattening foods (my clothes were snug!), but I didn�t realize just how quickly all of those calories added up. Before I knew it, more than 20 pounds piled on to my small frame. I wanted to lose weight once and for all, so I bucked up, took some responsibility, and picked up my pen. I quickly learned, though, that it wasn�t that easy! Keep a food journal I halfheartedly kept a paper-and-pen food journal, but I never lasted more than a few days at a time. It was time-consuming and inconvenient to continuously calculate all of those calories, so hundreds of them often went unaccounted for each day. Plus I wasn�t completely honest with myself, but just because I wasn�t writing down the 10 Hershey Kisses I ate didn�t mean they weren�t eventually going to show up on my hips....