I put a printable food diary up on the blog a week or two ago and had some good feedback about it. One thing that some people were interested in was the ability to make it a little more personal (custom). I kept mine pretty simple on purpose, since in my experience the more simple something is, the more likely it is to get done.
But, if you’re the type that want’s to tack everything under the sun, you might want to create a personalize food log/diary that meets your specific needs. Keep in mind that customizing the fields that you keep track of is easy inside maintainfit.com, but if you want to make your own printable food diary that is custom for what you want, maybe you should try using Excel.
It’s really pretty basic, so if you’re reasonable good with Excel you shouldn’t have any trouble at all. For example, if you want to track grams of sugar, trans fat, saturated fat and calories, you would just add each one to a heading. You can use the page break view to see how it will print out and then print it to record your meals/snacks for the week. You can even come back and update your food diary in Excel to keep a running total (don’t forget to add a date column in that case).
I made this short video to show you what i mean. After you watch it, take a minute and post your comments about the video here.
