Keeping a food diary for a while gives you insight into your eating habits. Not sure where to start? These apps make keeping a food diary easier.
Most phones now come with a health app as standard in which you can keep a food diary, among other things. For Samsung, for example, this is the S Health app, while the iPhone's app is called Health.
If you're looking for another food diary app, there's plenty of choice. The My Fitness Pal app is one of the most popular. It contains an extensive database of products, making it easy to fill in your food diary. Scan the barcode on the packaging and the app will copy all the information in your food diary.
Have you eaten a product that is not in this app? Scan the barcode with your camera and the nutritional values will be added automatically.
Read also: You can pay attention to this when you start counting calories.
Developed by the Nutrition Center, with a database of over 90,000 articles. Smart:scan the barcode on your bag of pasta and the nutritional value of the raw pasta is converted to the values of cooked pasta.
Counts not only calories, but also nutritional values and the app keeps track of your steps.
In addition to tracking your meals, nutritional values and calories, you can also plan meals in advance. No inspiration? The app is packed with healthy recipes.
Be honest when filling out your food diary. You can ask yourself these questions to gain more insight into your eating pattern.
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Print out a schedule and keep it. For example, this schedule from Fitwatch.
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