It’s time-consuming and potentially cumbersome but experts say keeping a food diary or journal can be beneficial, not just for dieters. WSJ's Sumathi Reddy joins Tanya Rivero. Photo: iStock Keeping a ...

Food journal -- blech. Just the phrase is enough to conjure images of yourself slaving over a food scale and frantically writing in a notebook. Though food journaling seems like an arduous task, it ...

Hello, my lovely readers! Thanks for joining me again. This week I experimented with keeping a food journal, where I wrote everything I ate down to see if it would help with my eating habits, portions ...

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Did you know that the average person recalls only half of what they eat? Though you may remember what you had for breakfast, what about the extra nibbles you had while watching TV, snacking on the ...

A new yearlong study of weight loss in overweight or obese women identified three key strategies for taking off unwanted pounds. The No. 1 tip for success? Writing down everything you eat or drink in ...

People hoping to lose weight are often urged to keep a food journal detailing what they eat throughout a day. While most people loathe it, a new study in the journal Obesity reveals that consistent ...

Food journal: It just doesn’t sound like something you’d really want to use, right? And as someone who’s attempted to keep a food journal a number of times in my life — like during that year I worked ...

Weight loss greater with food journals Using a food journal to self monitor diet may improve weight loss, but missing a meal or eating out frequently can hinder efforts, study shows. HealthDay News — ...

Is it time for dieters to ditch the written food journal, and go high tech? That's what researchers in Washington State are pondering as they study dieters who, instead of writing down everything they ...

This story is part of the 2018 Feel Good Food Plan, our two-week mind-body-belly plan for starting the year off right. Ten years of tracking makes me feel old, and compulsive, but also proud. Being ...