The Importance of Journaling

Will you journal forever, no...not unless you just want to or need to for focus later on after your good habits are formed and a part of you and how you live.  Why is journaling important?  Initially journaling is important to discover what you are naturally doing.  That is what we are doing in Week One & Week Two of this Current Fitness Challenge.  After awareness comes change.  You need to journal your foods both in a planning capacity and tracking capacity to determine what is working, what is not, and what still needs to be changed.  It also is a built in accountability aspect of your journey because let's face it, you don't want to write (or type) that you ate a whole cake.  Which should help change that behavior as opposed to doing it and not recording it.  It's the times when you don't want to record what you did or ate or didn't do or didn't eat that is the most important to evolving your fitness/nutrition/health journey....Everything Must Be Accounted For or real change cannot yet take place!  You need to mindfully do everything at first, so real change can happen.  Yes, I know it is difficult and awkward at first...it gets better, easier, and actually second nature quicker than you could possibly know right now...and that's when you know real change has happened and real habits have formed!!!  Right now in Week Two we are making some adjustments to your natural habits as they exist in the present.  During this week be mindful and aware of Where You Eat, How You Eat, Why You Eat, How Much You Eat (or How Little), What You Eat, and How You Feel When You Eat.  Food is used for emotional conditioning since childhood, it's okay to have the feelings you are feeling...being aware of all of what is involved in food not just being for sustenance is the first step in disarming those emotional attachments and triggers.  Realize when you are eating because you are upset, happy, bored, tired, frustrated, etc., and then see what healthy action you can either substitute in place of the food or practice working through the situation itself in a healthy and boundaryful way (check out all the book lists I have to the right of this site for suggested reading on this).   Food is good...Balance is better!  Food Rewards