Make healthy food choices and track diet

Physical – Activity: Make healthy food choices and track diet

Learn more about healthy nutrition and make healthy food choices.

• Find nutrition information for recipes with calculators at recipenutrition.com and recipe.sparkpeople.com
• Find healthy recipes at NHLBI, free printable cookbook “Keep the Beat Recipes.”
• Plan healthy menus with mealsmatter.org and healthyeating.org
• Shop for healthy foods
• Learn to read food labels
• Keep healthy snacks handy
• Eat more fruits & veggies
• Control food portions with the Great Plate at Michigan Universityand a printable serving size card (pdf) Another from WebMD

I use the resources in my eBook “Simply Dinner: the Game Plan” to organize my recipes and plan meals. Check out Simply Dinner: the Game Plan! It has a blank recipe card template with four 3×5 cards on one page. Not to mention enough recipes designed for a low-carbohydrate diet for a month of menus. There are no fancy ingredients here, and please note they are not vegetarian.

Track your diet this week…It’s been clinically proven that keeping track of what you eat is the #1 most effective method for controlling and reducing your daily caloric intake.

FORMS: a printable food and fitness journal from WebMD

Mine: Foldable Food Diary (pdf) with 6 forms per page, close to 3 x5 size

see also Learning About a Low Carb Diet (with a customizable shopping list) and Food is a Four Letter Word

Websites with apps to track diet (and exercise): Lose It! and Myfitnesspal.

The goal for this week:

“I will make healthy food choices by planning a healthy menu for the week on Sunday morning for this week. I will track the nutrition of the food I eat this week with a food diary.”

This is one of the weekly activities for a Year of Personal Development.

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