The amounts of food you track in your diary can identify overeating and become a powerful tool to cut calories and slim down, without resorting to fad diets or a points system. 3.

The daily habit that nutritionists agree can drastically improve your diet? Keeping a food diary. Here's why and what you need to know about writing it all down now.

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 ...