Count Calories and Lose Weight: The Daily Plate
Introduction to a Free Online Food Journal
Aug 28, 2008
Are you one of the millions of Americans obsessed with calorie counting? If so, there's no need to be hard on yourself anymore. TheDailyPlate , a free personal food journal site offers simple solutions to help you plan and achieve weight loss goals by doing majority of the work for you.
Here's how it works:
Find Food
· Step One: After visiting the Daily Plate and setting up your personal account, determine the type of food you eat on a daily basis and conduct a search to see if the Daily Plate has it. For example, if you want to know how many calories are in anything from Frisch's tartar sauce to Jack in the Box’s pancake syrup, it's all here for you on this site.
Just remember to be as specific as possible to narrow your search. Chances are if the Daily Plate doesn't have the nutritional value of the Blue Chip macadamia cookie you love, a laundry list of other macadamia cookies will appear giving you an idea of its calories, carbs and fat just by simply searching under: macadamia cookie.
Monitor Diet
· Step Two: With this journal you can be your own personal trainer. There is no need to run around with a calculator to count the calories you put in your system because The Daily Plate does it for you. Once you determine your current weight, how much you want to lose every week and learn to adhere to your calorie limit goal on a daily basis, the only thing left to do is add physical activity to your daily diet.
Achieve Results
· Step Three: Whether you run, jog or moderately walk, The Daily Plate can calculate the amount of calories you have lost from physical activity. Once it averages the total, it applies your results to the amount of calories you have consumed that day. So no need to worry if you are trying to eat only 1,200 calories per day but go over that goal by 100 calories because when you plug any physical activity you have done in the journal it displays how many calories you have burned.
Once you put the DailyPlate into your life, you will reap all the benefits you would from any journal. Whether you want to blog about your daily diet or receive free help from the site to enhance your dieting experience, staying fit will become as accessible as a slice of cake!
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