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Keep Track Of What You Eat On Your Low-Carb Lifestyle With The PicoPad Food Journal


The PicoPad Food Journal helps you easily track your food intake

One of the keys factors in my 180-pound low-carb weight loss success in 2004 and even still to this day is the fact that I keep daily track of all of my food intake, carbs, water, and exercise. But I gotta tell you–it is VERY inconvenient!

I remember writing down all that stuff on little pieces of paper that I had to keep up with in my pocket, kitchen counter, and car, but then I’d have trouble searching for a pen at mealtime and then transferring all of this information to my official food journal. UGH!

That’s why I was ecstatic to find a super-convenient and affordable product designed specifically to fill this need called The PicoPad Food Journal. Have you seen this yet? It’s compact enough to carry in your wallet or purse and even includes a pen, too. You’ll never get stuck trying to find those little pieces of paper you wrote your food down on anymore.

According to an August 2008 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, people who track their food intake produce DOUBLE the weight loss of those who don’t. That’s a pretty compelling reason to start doing it if you aren’t already. The PicoPad Food Journal will help you do this and you can get a 3-pack of them for less than $10.

What will this food journal help you do? You get to see all the calories and carbs you are getting in your menus, keep up with your exercise and water intake, feel a sense of accomplishment as the journal begins filling up while you shed the pounds, and get motivated to keep it going in your weight loss journey.

Here’s a YouTube video about The PicoPad Food Journal:

This nifty little PicoPad Food Journal gizmo is the brainchild of a company called Everyday Innovations which makes all kinds of journaling products that you might be interested in checking out. I’m pleased to tell you about this inexpensive way to make your diet journaling easy and convenient. Special THANKS to Everyday Innovations for coming up with a creative and practical tool for people who are livin’ la vida low-carb.

  • Jean

    Jimmy this looks great for those who want to keep track manually.

    Personally, I use Fit Day :

    http://www.fitday.com/

    Its free !

    Bayoubabe

    True, Jean. But not everyone has access to their computer all day to go to FitDay. For those people, the PicoPad Food Journal will be very helpful.

    –Jimmy

  • Shari

    I am headed to watch the You tube video, this seems very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • http://fatboymuscleman.com fatboymuscleman

    I also use fitday.com, but if you are too busy to hit fitday through your day, this could come in handy. Plus, if you have to write it down right after you eat it, this could be painful enough for you to make a different choice or eat a bit less.

  • Glenn Patch

    Jimmy
    I found a better system several years ago and lost 60 lbs. It was called CalorieKing and was downloaded to my Treo Smart phone. I now have a iPhone and use the program (App) called “diet tracker” because CalorieKing does not support the iPhone.

    It works great because all of us carry our phone with us all day. It has a database of about 7,000 foods and gives you a total nutritional count of everything you put in your mouth.

    THANKS Glenn! I too have used CalorieKing and that iPhone Diet Tracker as part of my diet tracking. But again, not everyone has access to a computer throughout the day or to an iPhone which is what makes this PicoPad product a useful tool for them. I appreciate your feedback!

    –Jimmy

  • Tara

    cute!

  • Glenn Patch

    Jimmy
    An update to my above post about the iPhone. Today I found “Food IQ” in the Apple app list. Once I tried it, I deleted “diet tracker” from my iPhone.
    I agree that PicoPad would be great for people who do not have a smartphone, but if you do have an iPhone. give “Food IQ” a try. It only cost $1.99

    The reason keeping track of my food intake worked so good for me was, when I had eated a small fat free muffin and entered it into my food log, I would say Holy S+++, that thing had 220 calories in it and wouldn’d eat it anymore

  • http://sara.blogspot.com Sara

    I think this is a great idea, especially for those who are most comfortable with less technology. I definitely agree that keeping a food diary is hugely helpful. My preference is to keep mine in a photo form, using my camera phone which is essentially always with me to take my photos. I blog mine (at http://sara.blogspot.com) but that’s not a necessary part of the equation. I do like the photo format, though — pictures don’t lie, or fool themselves about how big something was.