Want to do something that will keep you really honest?

Start a food journal.

This can be an affirming practice in many ways. Most diabetes guidelines suggest this practice during your diagnosis and throughout your career with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. This is also important with Celiac Disease. I know, REALLY? You want me to write down everything I eat?

Yes, I do. It can be very revealing looking at a compilation of what we have fed our bodies over the past few days. This is a snapshot, remember to keep an open mind and try your best not to be self critical. The purpose of this is to heighten your awareness of what you are eating and to strengthen your relationship with food. When I do this and observe what the paper tells me, I always make a connection.

A connection to what, you may wonder… It may reveal gaps in a healthful diet or connections to the control of your Diabetes or Celiac Disease. Perhaps it will affirm how well you are eating. It could reveal a busy life full of take out, emotional eating, late night eating, snacking, hitting the machine in the lobby at work every day. Perhaps you will see the foods you feed your children in a different light. Maybe you have unknown gluten in your diet or have another food item that is an irritant. Who knows, but it will surely reveal something!

Start your journaling in your iphone, a small pad of paper or something you have with you regularly. It’s amazing how quickly we can forget what we ate. Don’t change your habits because you are writing them down, change them after you see how you are regularly eating. You might also note how you felt before and after you ate, even the next morning. Acknowledging how certain foods affect your body, blood sugars and your emotions. I am going to do this with you all, as it is time for me to examine my eating habits too. My hope is that our food journals may spur a transformation with our relationship to the foods we eat.

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