Keeping a Daily Eating Record

The study, which was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that keeping a daily record can keep your eating on track.

"The more food records people kept, the more weight they lost," said Kaiser Permanente lead author Jack Hollis Ph.D. "Those who kept daily food records lost twice as much weight as those who kept no records. It seems that the simple act of writing down what you eat encourages people to consume fewer calories."

Many of my clients are not in the habit of eating 6 or more times each day. Until you train your body to be hungry and want to eat this often you will have to schedule each meal and force yourself to eat it, even if you are not hungry. Eating on this schedule will prevent over eating at your next meal, and will tell your body that you will not stave it, like you have done in the past. Once your body is convinced that you will feed it every couple of hours the body will release it's stored fat.