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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Journal Your Way To Fitness, 27 Sep 2008
The spiral bound "Dietminder" is a good tool of choice if you're looking for a handy and convenient way of keeping track of your food intake. While there is a space provided to write down your daily physical activity, it is minimal. Readers wanting some serious space to record exercise should check out this author's other "Bodyminder" book.
Okay. The "binder" starts off with tips for using the journal- and includes a general overview of what's contained on each page (remember, this is a journal filled with pages that are all the same). Essentially, this section shows you how to use the journal. Some dietary web resources you can refer to follow.
Next comes a section on setting your goals, complete with pages for before and after photos of the new you. After this, the pages are all the same. On the left side page are places for you to record your breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with columns for calories, as well as fat, carb, protein, and fiber grams. The right side page contains a place for snacks, vitamins, daily grand totals, as well as vitamins, supplements, and medications. A small space for physical activity is placed at the bottom, along with an even tinier spot for miscellaneous notes. All-in-all, there's plenty of room on the pages to write down the things you bought the journal for, and the spiral binding makes it easy to write on because you can flip the pages over for a thicker writing surface!
The book ends with a kind of "wrap up" section that contains favorite food facts (i.e. like the number of calories or fat in common foods), a place to graph records, weekly progress charts to write down info such as your weight and other measurements, and some reference calendars. The last page is a plastic page to store things (no,not your snacks).
As you can see, the Dietminder is a compact little tool filled with all the right spaces to keep track of all the right things. This journal, plus a healthy dose of get up and go, should help anyone reach their fitness goals. Readers who have trouble sticking to a diet or exercise program long enought to see results may also be interested in The Sixty-Second Motivator. Good luck!
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29 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to use and adaptable., 30 Oct 2000
By A Customer
A well thought out and usable book. The book contains sections for logging your goals and results as well as what you eat, exercise is also catered for. It works whether you want to count fat grammes points or Kcal etc, another plus is the food list at the back of the book which contains information on many food items and space to "add" your own "favourates".
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, 3 Feb 2009
I love the Dietminder. It's a great tool to use to jot down everything you eat during the day. You just have to be truthful!
There are 2 pages per day, where you list what you had for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as snacks. Under each section, for a meal, is a total field so it's really easy to keep a tally. It as handy little boxes for the amount of calories, fat, carbs for each item of food. There is a little spare section to do calculations in as well as a section for any excercise you have done.
I think busyteacher2's review sets out how the dietminder is broken up more. But you get the gist, be truthful and you can't go wrong.
I managed to loose 2 stone, without going to any classes. My friend wanted to try this method too, so this is why I'm buying another copy.
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