Seeing your emotions in ink will help you separate food from your emotional stimulates. You will become more aware of what causes you to eat.  

    Keeping a Journal allows you not only to record what you eat but also gives you a record of your personal accomplishments and monitors your progress to help keep you motivated.  

    When you feel like you're not making progress with your diet program, you'll have a record of your progress right there in  your own handwriting. This often can be enough to give you added motivated to continue your regimen.  

   You'll be able to log your exercise and notice that regular  
workouts can help you lose weight.  
  
    You'll be able to log and notice that drinking water daily  
helps you to lose extra pounds.  

    You'll discover that certain foods and certain events can play a large part in your cravings and can trigger eating urges that can start you on an eating binge (the dreaded yo-yo syndrome).  

    You will learn about calories, fat or other special nutrition  
values that goes into your mouth and be able to "bank" calories.