DietMinder Personal Food & Fitness Journal (A Food and Exercise Diary)

I was very pleased with this journal. It was very easy to use and helped me stay on track. I have recommended it to quite a few people who find it tiresome to keep a journal. I love it and will be ordering more.

I love this journal. It accomodates any diet plan and has room enough to really include everything you eat for 3 meals and 3 snacks per day. It has a place for the vitamins you take and for the exercise you do, and boxes to count off 8 8-oz. glasses of water. I don't use the columns for calories, fat grams, etc. but just write across the page. My food plan is from "YOU on a Diet" so I don't need to count those things. I use the untitled boxes on the side to count "dairy" and "nuts". I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to keep a food journal for whatever reason.

I have bought about 50 of these for my weight loss group. It has about 90 pages to record individual days of eating. It has sections for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner and snacks as well as a section to record exercise. It has a section to "do the math" which is a place to add up all the calories for the day. It has 3 pages for planning and setting goals. It is very well organized and easy to use. I highly recommend it for recording your eating and exercise daily.

Easy and effective way for me to lose 15-20 lbs. I follow the diet plan in the book Strong Women Stay Slim by Miriam E. Nelson PH.D and record my portions in The Dietminder. The portion plan in Strong Women is easier for me to follow instead of counting calories. I have it taped onto the Dietminder's back pages as my guide and for easy access. The columns are D as in Dairy instead of Calories, X for Extras instead of Fat grams, Grains are my Carbs, Protein is Protein and V for Vegtables instead of Fiber and F for Fruits in the last blank space. I list the allowed Daily amount under each column, subtract throughout the day. Bless them both for creating the program and the tool.

The layout of this journal is very concise, easy and doesn't allow for "slip-ups". You must record every thing you put into your mouth, and that in itself is where I found the benefit! Very helpful to have a calorie counter book along with this journal, eliminates the guess work. Looking up all the information was like doing homework for me, and I found it a bit tiresome. The concept is amazing, however, and if I got tired of writing things down, I often made a conscious decision to NOT eat it. Otherwise, really lets you see where your pitfalls are, and the format easily guides you through your meals, snacks and beverages for the entire day. Would reccommend for anyone wanting to fully understand what their calorie, fat, carb, protien intakes are each day.