2-Pack Food Journal Diaries – Spiral-Bound (5.5″ x 8.5″), 50 Double-Sided Pages for Tracking Calories, Carbs, Protein, Fat, Macronutrients, and Eating Habits, Perfect for Healthy Eating Goals

This turned out to be brilliant.Food-journalling never works for me, because it makes me obsess over food in a way that I won’t if I simply fast. That said, food-choice-charts really help me when I’m trying to figure out what to eat or drink, and these are brilliant for that purpose.These are laid out very well, have good options for the columns, vary the colors in the vertical rows to make it easier to identify what column you’re reading, and have enough space to write without running out of space. The spiral binding is unbent and seems sturdy, the pages are thick enough to prevent bleed-through when writing on the backside which is also printed, and the layout is easily memorized to increase how fast you can fill this in while running around all day.Beyond this, as I said above, this can be used for food-charts, not only for food-journaling, and you can select which columns you track on your foods to allow for greater ease of picking foods at a glance if you use this for food-charts. I made a food-chart on day-one and I was stunned to see all my beverage choices laid out like that, all in a column of ascending calorie counts, with some really threatening calorie counts mixed in there at the end of the page. I discovered that my decaf and some favorite teas have only 45 calories per 24 ounces with my low-calorie and healthy-fat creamer while my low-calorie/fat-free cocoa has a whopping 85 calories per 24 ounces and sometimes 90, the way I pour the soymilk. Of course, my fruit teas and my version of juice, where I use 2 tablespoons of juice in water with some stevia or where I use fruit-based tea with stevia, all have only 20 calories per 24 ounces, but I was stunned to realize the huge difference between one version of decaf and another and then the coffee alternative versus the low-fat/low-carb/low-calorie cocoa, which made a huge difference in my daily routine. I was also shocked to realize that a low-carb product I use when craving chocolate actually has 11 net carbs, not the 7 that I had previously misread on the packaging. So just filling this out for one food-choice-chart made a difference in my daily routine but also in how I think about those beverage choices and other low-carb choices.And then, beyond just noticing things about my choices I hadn’t previously notices, I posted that chart and did better each day since I filled it out and began looking at it whenever I choose a beverage from my list, because I began to start to finally memorize those calorie counts by looking at them repeatedly. In other words, this already paid for itself (or the taxes I pay on it) by giving me valuable data about my diet and by giving me a visible reminder on my kitchen wall which tells me what my best teas are and what my best options are for other drinks throughout the day, beyond water. Next up is a food-chart for common snack items for when I just can’t do a full fast for the evening, and it looks like an apple or small amount of blueberries or strawberries wins, followed by oatmeal if I don’t feel like fruit.This is really a golden option, among many, and it’s basically a perfect tool for dietary management. I highly recommend this, and I give it five well-earned stars.