JG: James Gagliardi

Food Diary

14: Food Diary

This week I decide to try a technique to pay closer attention to what I actually eat: take a picture.

During an episode of the A&E TV show Heavy, which chronicles the weight loss efforts of individuals suffering with extreme obesity, they shared a technique of taking a picture of everything you eat. The idea is to be more aware of what food you are putting into your body.

So for an entire week, I took a picture of everything I ate (with the exception of water and vitamins).

Even though I'm fairly conscious about what I eat, I don't always choose healthy options, so I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if it would change my eating behavior.

Over the past week I was traveling for several days for business and was in class during the weekend. This would prove to make things more difficult since I didn't always have a say over where we ate plus it would limit some of my food options.

When I was at home or in the office, it curbed the food I ate (or didn't eat), including snacks, junk food, and sodas. When I was traveling or at school, not so much.

I made a few more unhealthy choices that I didn't think I would make at the start of the experiment, but a side-effects was I was more aware of was how much I ate.

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