A nutrition journal can be used as a:

• personal record of your body’s responses to the foods you eat
• balance sheet to observe the kinds of raw materials and fuels with which you supply your body
• place to keep special recipes
• diet notebook for weight gain and/or loss
• record of your feelings and resolutions

For example:

Subject Under Consideration: Breakfast

Day/Time: Monday, 3/22, 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast Foods

2 eggs, bacon—2 strips, toast—2 pieces, butter and jam, coffee—2 cups

Immediate Effects/Later Effects

Left the table feeling stuffed.

Too much food. Generally good day. Not hungry until 3:00 p.m.

Reflections:

Resolutions:

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