Journal to Success

This will be a swap for one month and you will journal your month for your partner. We will start this March 1st and you will do one entry every day for 31 days.

Make sure your journal is light you can use a lightweight notebook, you can use note book paper in a light weight binder (the plastic ones), but please make sure it is lightweight for mailing purposes. You can decorate the cover and you can decorate the pages as you go.

Your first page should be an introduction to your partner about yourself. What follows can include -

What you ate/drank

How many calories you consumed

How much and what type of exercise you did that day

How certain foods affect you emotionally and physically

Beginning and ending weight

All your thoughts and feelings

Recipes

Great diet ideas

Why you want to lose weight and/or how you gained it.

Things you send and receive in our group swaps.

Labels (incl nutritional info) from foods/drinks you love.

Other ideas? Your decision, your book.

Recipes and diet ideas are wonderful additions, but please do not have your journal entry for any day be only a recipe or diet idea, or your food for the day. These are not "how to diet" books. These journals are meant to help keep us on track and to help us to see that other people have some of the same thoughts and feelings. Also, just a list of foods someone ate is not very interesting or inspirational.

Please make the journal interesting, not just a list, its a journal try including some color, remember this needs to be something that you would love to receive as well.

Please be honest. If you don't stay as on track as you want to this month, you can do better next month! On the bright side, your down days will help the receiver not feel so bad about theirs.

Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.