Customer Reviews

Lighten Up!, A Weight Control/Workout Journal Special Price - Kraft Hard Cover (prompts on every page, recycled paper, read more)

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The area for recording food intake has three lines only for each meal. So if you eat a piece of chicken, a veggie, a drink, and bread or dessert, there is not enough room to record it all. I had a breakfast of 1/2 grapefruit, 1 wheat english muffin, 2 pieces of turkey bacon, skim milk and fresh OJ, and I could not record the meal, not enough room. I gave up on this journal after two days.

I just received my journal, and I absolutely love it. It is very well made. If the other reviewer had a problem with the quote on the bottom of the page, that's no reason to deduct stars. It's very easy to cross it off and put in a quote of your own. Or, I just change the word "thin" to "fit" in my mind. "Nothing tastes as good as fit feels" would be very appropriate. In any event, I'm happy to have a journal I can use to track my fitness goals & keep so I can refer back to it when necessary. I tried a couple of on-line tools, but both were very cumbersome in how to enter in all your food and nutrition information. I just wanted something easy that I could jot things down in, and this fits the bill perfectly.

This journal is sturdy, which makes it nice for carrying around daily. It takes much abuse. But I found myself not using it because it didn't have enough lines for anything. There are 3 lines for each meal, which really isn't enough. I also wished there were more lines for macronutrients. It only has spots for calories, fat, and carbs. I would have liked room to record fiber and protein. There also isn't enough room for anyone who eats snacks through the day or after workouts. There is one small snack section at the bottom of the page.

I did like the intent of the non-food journal on the back of the page, the main reason I wanted this journal. But it really fell short. The section for exercise is entirely too small for me. There is one line that says "Exercise/Activity". Under that line is a split line with "What" and "how long/many" on it. Then there are 4 lines dedicated to "With whom/where" which seems odd. It's good if you just go to the gym and do one thing, but many days I like to record a little more information and there just isn't room for it.

I think this is a very interesting twist on the normal journals that have no room to write anything but food and exercise, but I'm just disappointed that in an effort to record the emotions/feelings, they forgot to leave enough room for the actual diet/exercise information.

This book is very classy looking and I think it would be great for those that are more into filling in charts or keeping stats. I was looking for more of a free-lance journal, but the pages of this are already structured so that I'm more or less filling in 'information requested'. Great, durable and fun, just not for me.

This is a very nicely constructed journal and I was eager to start using it, until I saw that on the bottom of every other page, it has this quote "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels". It's a very unhealthy and outdated message and not particularly motivating. It needs to go the way of the Jane Fonda videos. Unfortunate, as I would give it 5 stars for construction and layout, but the quote just irritates me.