What is a nutritional diet log

The essence of a nutritional diet log is a dietary health tracking tool for individuals. The core is to truthfully record the types, time, and portions of daily food intake, as well as body reactions after eating, to help you sort out your diet structure and troubleshoot health problems.

A while ago, I helped a relative at home deal with the problem of high blood sugar after meals. He always said at first that he ate very lightly and even replaced white rice with multi-grain rice. However, after keeping a diary for 5 days in a row, I discovered that he had to cook two meat dumplings with half a bottle of iced black tea as a snack every afternoon.

Nowadays, people’s evaluations of nutrition and diet diaries are actually quite polarizing. Many registered dietitians will use it as the first step in dietary intervention, thinking that it can break many people’s misunderstandings about their own “healthy diet”. After all, people’s memory of what they eat is really not that accurate, and many snacks and extra meals are forgotten immediately. However, many people feel that keeping track of this is too laborious. They have to count calories and nutrients for every bite, which can easily lead to eating anxiety. There is a little girl around me who kept a diary to lose weight. She felt so guilty that she cried in the middle of the night after eating half a cookie too much. Instead, she overeated for more than half a month, which was counterproductive.

In fact, there is no need to make it so rigid. You don’t have to be precise about the calories per gram, and you don’t have to turn eating into a calculation problem. Just jot down a rough idea. For example, when you go out in the morning, you eat 1 vegetable bag and 1 cup of sugar-free soy milk, and when you eat takeout at noon, you add two extra pieces of fried pork ribs. , I feel tired all afternoon after eating. If you accumulate these bits of information for half a month, you will be able to figure out the "temper" of your body - for example, if you have diarrhea when you drink iced latte, you are most likely to be lactose intolerant, if you eat heavy oil braised food, you will get acne the next day, and you will naturally take the initiative to avoid it in the future.

To put it bluntly, it is like a small ledger of diet that you keep for your body. You don’t have to go through the ledger to live your life, and you don’t have to be harsh on yourself for the numbers, but at least you need to know what the food you eat brings to your body, which ones are unnecessary burdens, and which ones are the nutrients you really need. If you find it troublesome to write by hand, you can type two lines in a memo on your mobile phone, or even take a photo and save it. Spend 2 minutes before going to bed to write down two feelings. It is completely effortless. If you persist for two months, you will find that many minor problems that you could not find the cause of before will gradually be cured.