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The Any Diet Diary: Count Your Way to Success

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This little book is perfect for anyone on a diet. Any kind of diet. Whether it's for weight loss, or for those just looking to eat healthier. All succesful dieter's know the importance of a daily food diary. However, how many people save last month's information? It has a place to record everything important on a "diet". I am on a low-carb plan (Protein Power by Drs. Eades), but I have done several other types of diets, and all are recordable here. This book lets you record your daily intakes of foods, gives you "boxes" to check and record calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, cholesterol and sodium. It has spaces for water consumption, exercise logs, and weight as well as a section for recording how you felt the day went by circling a happy face, medium face, or sad face. It lets you record daily, this way, when you find yourself not doing too well, you can go back in the book and look at days you did wonderful and compare. It is small enough to fit in most purses (approx 5x6). It has common foods listed in the back with their counts (carbs, protein, fat, calories, etc..) It has diet tips spaced throughout the book that are helpful. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone going on ANY diet or "way of eating". It will be an excellent resource of information to the "recorder" as well as to their Doctor should they be on a diet per their Doctor.

I just received my copy of "The Any Day Diet", and I was extremely disappointed. The book is smaller than most journals, and on the outside it looks pretty good, but when you open the book it's another story. There is hardly enough space to record what a person consumes per meal about 3 line each per breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the format looks like something my 7 year old created. I have seen way better food journals than this.

This is a great little book if you are tired of all the diet fads, and really want to change your eating. The Diary allows you to insert goals, body measurements and things you would like to change or do better. There is a daily rating scale so you can rate how well you followed your plan. There is also a daily record of how much water you drink and when, what exercise you do and any vitamins you take. This is an EXCELLENT way to keep track of what you eat. There is a food index in the back of the book so you do not have to buy a separate calorie/fat counter if you do not want to. This book allows you to keep track of calories, fat, fiber, cholesterol, carbs and sodium. Those of you on low carb diets can even keep records! At the end of each week there is a weekly update, where you enter current weight, body measurements and how well you followed your plan and any changes you would like. GREAT BOOK--very worthwhile.

I ordered the Any Diet Diary and was very disappointed upon its arrival. It was not spiral bound as it states on the order page, which means it will not lay flat when writing in it. I was more disappointed in the content itself. The journal pages are so "busy" and filled with writing, boxes, and areas to fill out that it is overcrowded and annoying.

I must love this book, because this is my 4th copy that I am ordering. I like this book because it's perfect for any diet or eating style, and the information it asks for is useful, particularly the nutrient counts that come off of food labels. This book keeps me honest, and it helps me figure out what I'm doing right, and what I need to improve. Ex. I never knew what a salt hound I am until I started to actually write down the sodium content of foods. And the foods with the highest sodium content were the same ones that were high in fat. By simply starting with one food or issue at a time, which I identified by writing it all down in this book, I've lost over 40 lbs. The loss has been gradual and long lasting, because I changed habits one at a time, based on what this little book helped me to identify in my personal eating style. Plus it's nice to go back and see my goals, how I achieved them, and photos.

I do agree with some of the other reviewers that a spiral bound would be an improvement. But I've tried other ones, and this is the one for me.

We just got our diary and there is not near enough space in this diary,also we think it should be once again as big,should be spiral bound at the top and open up the spaces where you record your daily numbers. Otherwise it is a good diary,we like the food index. Thank You.jmh@carlnet.org