<p style="text-align: justify;">Food journaling is the new trend to lose weight. Have you ever counted your calories intake? Did you know that not every calories count as the same? Some of you might wonder why I don't put much emphasize on calorie counting; not every calorie equal the same and breakdown equally inside your body. Food is more that calories, its nutrients, vitamins, fiber, anti-oxidant, super-food.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What is food journaling and why should you try it? It's quite simple: you write down everything you eat, the portion. You can even add the time you ate, with who you ate, the mood you were in when you ate. For example: were you angry, bore, lonely, happy, hungry, full, satisfied, sick? An other thing you can add to your journaling is the way the food made you feel. Did it gave you belly cramp, gas, crankiness, fatigue, energy? Then it will be easier to figure out how food affect you and that could be a good idea to eliminate from your diet. This will bring awareness to what you are putting into your mouth and you will be able to sit down and access your diet better. I made a list for more reasons why you should try food journaling for a while instead of counting calories.</p>

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 	<li style="text-align: justify;">Bring awareness to what your eating habit. Then to be able to make better choices. Instead of concentrating on calories counting you can see what your habit are, find the trigger and reprogram yourself to have healthier eating habit.</li>
 	<li style="text-align: justify;">Calorie counting is not accurate; "Calorie information on packaged foods is <em>legally</em> allowed to be off by 20%. Restaurant menus have also been shown to be pretty far off the mark in the calorie estimates they print." Are you surprise about that? (http://summertomato.com/7-reasons-keeping-a-food-journal-is-better-than-counting-calories)</li>
 	<li style="text-align: justify;">Calories intake change daily. Depending how much we move, how much we think because our brain require calories... There are so many different factor that can determine how much calories we need.</li>
 	<li style="text-align: justify;">Calorie counting doesn't account whole food versus process food. The quality of the food should be the most important thing and this can be neglected when you focus on calorie counting.</li>
 	<li style="text-align: justify;">Counting calorie can become neurotic, you lose the pleasure of eating  it doesn't teach you much.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">When you have a food journal is only temporary to bring awareness, to share with other and seek help. Once you find your habit you can get healthier eating habit and stop journaling.</p>