40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very motivational journal, October 16, 1999
By A Customer
This journal is one of the best I have seen. I am a Personal fitness trainer and I give each one of my clients a copy of this to help them while they reach their fitness goals. I have looked at alot of different journals and this one is the best I have seen yet. Everyone of my clients love the inspirational quotes from the people who have lost weight and been able to keep it off. My business is called Motivations- Natural Health & Fitness Training so you can see why I really was impressed with how motivational this journal really is.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
deeply disappointed, December 11, 2001
After reading the reviews for this journal, I placed it on my wishlist and received it in the mail today. I am very disappointed with it.
There are many good points about the book: It has a complete year in one book, the quotations/inspirations, the recipes. However, the space to record your daily intake is way too small. There is no room to write your daily weight, the date, the calories, fat, protein or carb grams....or points, if you're doing Weight Watchers as I am.
The book is broken down by weeks. The first page for the week is Weekly Wisdom. It's great. Very motivational, informative, and excellent for a journal. This section is reminisce of the author's wonderful book, Thin for Life. The next page is Weekly Forecasts. It has a section for Goal(s) for this week, Anticipated Obstacles, Possible Solutions, Exercise Plan and finally Try this for Supper. That all takes up one page. Then The next two pages are the journal for the week. The first page of the journal has room for Monday through Thursday, with each broken down into Morning, Afternoon and Evening What I Ate sections. The bottom of each section is Exercise/Accomplishments. This is where the journal goes bad, because there is such inadequate space to write here. I'm sure I will be writing outside of the margins to include weight, date, water, and vitamin. Finally, the second page has Friday through Sunday, and at the bottom of the second page of the journal, there is a What Really Helped This Week section. I think this could be very useful; however, I'd much rather have that extra space for my journal entries.
Overall this is a well-organized, thought-provoking journal. It's just not something to use if you write big, can't see small print, and do many calculations regarding calories or points.
If they could possibly enlarge the food journaling section, this would be an excellent choice.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not for all dieters and not extremely practical, September 21, 2002
I bought this diary to monitor my food intake when I was "recovering" from yo-yo dieting. The beginning of the diary is helpful, as each week starts with a page that you fill out to see if you are on the right track as far as weight loss efforts go, for example a page about what you like and dislike to do when you are trying to lose weight, and then an analysis to see if a commericial diet plan, a do-it-yourself or a guided weightloss is best for you. But this kind of pages doesn't last for the entire diary and after being used to them for some weeks you get a feeling that the diary is no longer helping you to taylor your regimen to your needs and goals. Instead, the first page of the month becomes a weekly suggestion about modifications you can apport to your routine, that won't actually fit all lifestyles/people. The suggestions are from the high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet current, one that didn't and doesn't work for me personally, as I am sugar sensitive, so I was not very eager to read the weekly suggestions anymore.
The next page in each weekly "space" is my favorite, the one for which I gave it 3 stars. A space to record your goal(s) for the week, any interference you expect happening and any remedies so that you can get back on track in case those interference do hinder you getting to your weekly goal(s). Then a space for you to establish an exercise schedule for the coming week. This page was the most helpful part because I could predict things better and therefore control them better, and also preparing an exercise schedule was fun and it helped me keep exercise regular.
The next 2 pages of each week are for the daily food intake and daily accomplishments. Definitely too little space on each day to track the food in a way that it could easily be referred to later (food diaries are mostly used to define patterns in your food intake and your allergy symptoms/weight gain/craving/etc., so you need to have the food intake clearly written down in order for the diary to serve its purpose). I would have preferred the diary to last 6 months instead of 1 year, or even 3 months, but have more space for the daily food intake and accomplishments, so that the info recorded could be tidy and useful for later, too.
All in all, not a bad product, but also not as good as it could have been.
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