Food Diary Day 1

I'm going to be open here. When I decided that I wanted to lose weight, I was adviced to keep a food diary. (And so, the first thing I did was to look for a pretty, pink diary.) In this food diary, I keep a list of all the food AND drinks I consume everyday. It is easy to tell yourself that you are not going to eat any chocolate this week but how about that grape soda you just downed? With a food diary, you have to be honest with yourself and be conscious of everything you eat... and not eat. This is very important because most of us easily forget that we've skipped our meals, (especially breakfast) thus overeating at the end of the day.

Here is how the food diary works: You group your food intake into meals such as Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, Dinner and Miscellanous Damage. You could also group damage with snacks. With damage comes Repair. What did you DO today? Take the stairs? Go to the gym? Run outdoors? Walk the dog? All the energy consuming chores or exercise you do will be grouped into repair. You will be surprised how addictive logging your food diary will be and realize that you'll squirm everytime you have to add something into the damage section.

I will logging my Food Diary online so now you can always look forward to a blog entry EVERYDAY! Let's start.

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BREAKFAST

2 pieces of French Toast

1 glass of orange juice

1 glass of water

LUNCH

1 glass of orange juice

1 banana

1 glass of water

SNACKS

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DINNER

1 glass of white wine

3 apple martinis

Half a plate of Pattaya Rice

1 Horlicks Dinosaur

REPAIR

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Evaluation: I was out last night to  an exclusive invite to Epitome of Music at Swissotel The Stamford, Helipad, where my girls and I had a glass of white wine before proceeding to New Asia Bar for martinis and cosmos. I did not eat anything for lunch so I was buzzed faster than you can say cosmopolitan. It was a beautiful crowd at the event but with a number of men in their 30s and 40s. The music was fantastic though, DJ Stefano Willow sure is the creme de la creme of Switzerland and boy, did he pump the crowd. I would like to add that I was on the dancefloor vigorously dancing but that's just how guilty I am that I didn't do very well today.

With love, Fay Hokulani