Comments on: 31 Days to a Better Body: Day 29 – Journal

By: jennincat

jennincat — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:07:29 +0000

Yeah, I’m a *little* behind in responding but wanted to say I LOVED our time together too. I have no idea if that was good ceviche or not but I’ve been craving it since. I’m going to try and make it to that restaurant one last time before we go.

By: jennincat

jennincat — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:05:34 +0000

I’m super late getting to comments. Ugh but had to say I LOVED getting a new Trapper Keeper every year! Ha ha! I hadn’t thought about those in years!

By: Andrea@WellnessNotes

Andrea@WellnessNotes — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:44:46 +0000

Well, you know my thoughts about food journaling. And I do keep track of my workouts either on my blog or my FB page. LOVE your pretty journals!

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:04:48 +0000

My love of the journal started back in my Trapper Keeper days. I still have several mini journals, some for specific purposes, some that I keep to just jot down thoughts/ideas as they come to me. I have a work out journal too, of course. I keep track EXACTLY like you do. Starting in the back, I put ideas for future workouts so if I ever get to the gym and don’t have a plan or am not feeling what I had planned I flip to the back for a Plan B.

By: Deb (SmoothieGirlEatsToo)

Deb (SmoothieGirlEatsToo) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:48:51 +0000

I must admit that though I am not ‘counting’ right now, I LOVE having a cute journal- even just to track general trends in food or fitness or workouts. I have always been a sucker for rainbow binders = I have about 5 of them! And I had some beautiful velvet covered ones that I used years ago. And I can’t give them up or toss them even if they were through my ‘count-every-calorie’ phase and it’s just filled with numbers/food items. I feel like it’s a part of history and a part of what helped me try to hit some goals. A few weeks ago I pulled out an old rainbow diary that I had stopped using. It was fun to once again be able to have it to curl up with at bed time (haha sorry derek!) and just ‘finish’ the day with some closure.

I’ve even had rubber stamps custom made with little boxes to check off or fill in like how many servings of fruits/veg; how many glasses of water; how many cals burned with exercise; my EC (something I learned at HMR) or environmental control- ie how hard was it to stay on track- lots of things to resist, including my own cravings, etc. I loved that stamp. Wonder where it went?? Hmm.

Anyway- thanks for the great post. And thanks again for a wonderful time last week- I loved it so much.