Studies show that people who keep food journals lose more weight and keep more of that weight off in the long run. The National Weight Control Registry-–an ongoing research project tracking more than 3,000 people who’ve lost an average of 66 pounds and kept it off for five years– found that keeping a food journal is the one strategy used by the majority of successful dieters. In fact, in a study of 685 dieters conducted by a health insurance company, the best predictor of weight loss throughout the first year was the number of food records kept per week.
--Rebecca Pratt, staff writer at SparkPeople.com
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