Food Journal
Nutrition is the key to losing body fat, even if you are a highly trained athlete. If you are already training for two or three hours a day on almost every day of the week, adding in some more exercise with the hopes of losing weight may just not be possible and will definitely not be effective.
While most people understand the importance of keeping a workout log, I think that keeping a nutrition log is far more important for an anyone who is trying to lose some fat.
Every time I say this in front of an audience everyone groans. Telling people to write down what they eat is never received well. However, I wouldn't keep on saying it unless it was the truth.
Keeping a nutrition log is your best tool to ensure fat loss.
Just like with a workout log, a nutrition log allows you to look back on the last week, month or year and really examine what worked for you and what didn't work for you. It allows you to quickly identify why you had stalls in progress or dips in performance.
Bottom line: If you are trying to lose weight but are not keeping a nutrition log, you are making the process a hundred times harder then it needs to be. Keep a log and you will be able to lose fat without compromising any of your conditioning or performance.
For more help to get lean and stay lean check out Precision Nutrition. Then start writing down everything you eat. Do this for a month and I guarantee you will see results.
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