Keeping A Record

• This unit asks you to take action.

• You don't have to change your eating patterns yet.

• All you need to do is keep a record of what you eat.

• Record keeping can influence food choices.

• It is a form of self-suggestion.

Keeping A Record

• There is nothing you need to do except keep that record.

• Self-suggestion becomes effective on its own.

• The brain connects intentions (self-suggestions), feelings and action in the inner

mind.

• Keeping a record can influence your food choices if you let it happen.

Keeping A Record

• If you let yourself try it, you'll discover how record-keeping can work as self-

suggestion for you.

• Do not worry, if at first, you resist keeping lists.

• Lots of people are like you.

Keeping A Record

• Lots of people sigh, and say, "I just can't remember to do it."

• They say they hate lists.

• They say record-keeping is a burden and everyone is busy.

• But keeping a record is easier to do than you think.

• The purpose of a record is to create self-awareness.

Keeping A Record

• When people keep an accurate record they become aware of what they eat

• Record-keeping gets linked to "Thinking" parts in the brain.

• Thinking helps you resist that big helping of cake.

• Thinking of your record encourages healthy food choices.

Keeping A Record

• Lists are facts that keep you mindful when you try to forget what you ate.

• That is part of how self-suggestion works.

• You begin to be interested in the list as a score-keeper.

• You do not want to write down that you ate sugary, fat-laden foods.

• So, you begin to resist them as long as you keep a record.

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• Keeping a record gets you thinking before eating.

• On a deeper level, keeping a record, connects you to your desire to change.

• Record-keeping is an application of self-suggestion that entices you into

making good decisions.

Keeping A Record

• You have already suggested to yourself that you want to change.

• Record-keeping supports that wish to change.

• Record-keeping makes change easier.

• You and your record may develop an interesting bond.

Keeping A Record

• When people keep a record, they find they say "no" more easily to poor food

choices.

• Think of record-keeping as a wordless form of self-suggestion.

• A successful record day can make you feel good.

• Try it. You may like it.

Keeping A Record

• Over a period of days or a few weeks, record-keeping may turn into an inner

ally, an inner helper.

• It might be interesting to notice how that happens.

• Even if you quit record keeping after a time, you can always go back to

keeping a record.

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• Some people keep a food diary on a cell phone.

• You can keep a record on napkins.

• Just save the napkins!

• This program has a Food Tracking Record Form to track what you eat

• You also can design your own form.

Keeping A Record

• You can use the resources area below the program to download food tracking

sheets

• Press the audio icon to learn more about self-suggestion and record-keeping.

Keeping A Record