Track Your Food - Is the the way to lose more weight?

Did Anyone Watch 60 Minutes, 20/20, or Good Morning America about tracking your food intake and losing more weight?

I did! I have tried several times to do this and was unable to keep up with it. So lets try an experiment together. Read the below article from SparkPeople's and let try using their tracking system together and see if this really works. SparkPeople is FREE , why not try it.

Track Your Food, Lose Twice the Weight

You hear all the time that to lose weight, you should track what you eat. Well, a recent study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that keeping a "food diary" may double your weight loss efforts. Researchers kept tabs on 1,685 overweight and obese adults, who were encouraged to adhere to a reduced-calorie diet and asked to record their daily food intake and exercise minutes. After 20 weeks, researchers discovered something BIG: The more participants recorded what they ate, the more weight they lost. Participants who did not keep a food diary lost about 9 pounds, while those who recorded their food intake six or more days per week lost 18 pounds - twice as much as those who didn't track any food!

This isn't news to the millions of people who have lost weight by tracking their food and fitness minutes on SparkPeople.com. Every day, our members track more than one million foods on their free Nutrition Trackers, making SparkPeople.com's food tracker the most popular in the world! By tracking your food at SparkPeople, you become more accountable to what you put in your mouth. Plus, SparkPeople's detailed food tracker shows you exactly what you're eating so you can make better, more informed choices.

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