What is a food diary, or daily food journal as it is sometimes called? A food diary is simply a daily record of everything you ate for the day. You can keep a daily food diary in a notebook where you write everything down, or you can keep an online food diary where you keep track of everything in a file or program. Keeping a food diary can help you stay on track in your quest for eating healthy and maintaining your weight.

The Diet Industry knows their products don’t work well, and they know that you know it as well. But, believe it or not, they know that they can still get your money.

Researchers at the University of Kiel in Germany determined that for every gram of fiber you eat, you eliminate between 8.46-12.84 calories. If you do the math, using a conservative number of 7, you could potentially eliminate 245 calories eating 35 grams of fiber a day. Pretty cool, huh?

Have you ever noticed that when you begin a diet, suddenly every one you know invites you to go out to eat? When faced with that situation you have two choices; sit at home with your celery sticks or go out to eat with your friends and make good food choices.

Often we sabotage our own success because we allow negative thoughts to dominate our minds. Negative thinking leads to negative feelings and negative thoughts and feelings will cripple even the most determined person. But, if you are able to identify and change your negative thinking patterns, you give yourself a life jacket when you are navigating through difficult waters.

You may not even be aware that this is a debate at all, but ask a diet junkie and you will find that there are some very strong opinions about a simple appliance called the bathroom scale.
 
Stepping on to the bathroom scale can make or break someone's day. It shouldn't have that impact but for some it does. There are some who believe that weight loss should not be measured by a scale because it puts too much focus on a number. A scale does …