Keeping a diet and fitness journal is one of the best ways to ensure you'll lose weight at lightning speed, with minimal plateus, and for the long haul. Soon after you start writing your food intake down regularly you begin to realize how much you let your life affect what you eat and how you eat it. You had a stressful day at work so you skipped meals all day then binged on anything in sight at night. Perhaps you had another night of zero sleep then took care of the kids all day so you ate mindlessly and binged on sugar to combat stress and fatigue. Maybe you feel lonely and depressed but you're too stubborn to really do anything about it so you drink heavily at night to supress your feelings. Whatever your situation you will soon find out what motivates your overeating, sugar cravings, alcohol binges, bad food choices, and more. Things are not always what they seem and if you're using the right journal you'll learn how to handle bad eating habits, stay focused on your weightloss goals, and feel great about your efforts.

Outwit Your Weight Journal : Lose Weight and Keep It Off with this Personalized Weight-Loss Diary
Just like the book Outwit Your Weight : Fat-Proof Your Life With More Than 200 Tips, Tools, & Techniques to Help You Defeat Your Diet Danger Zones this journal focuses on 6 different diet personalities. It helps you figure out yours so you can choose the journal that corresponds with it. You'll find great tips, tools, and techniques, food facts, calories burned info, and more. The best thing is if your diet personality changes (and it might) you have other options or you can experiment with all the journals to see which suits you best. Great for those familiar with journaling who need some extra help handling their special issues.


The Method Jump Start Journal: 8 Weeks To Wellness
My current journal of choice for all my clients. It's an awesome journal that provides all types of goal setting exercises, cool lifestyle questionaires, nutrition info, exercise options,and R & R tips. It focuses less on calories and more on your lifestyle and which often times has a bigger effect on what you eat and how much of it you eat. Great for beginners or those who struggle to stick to healthy eating and exercise. My only issue with it is the tiny spaces for food entries.


Body for Life Success Journal
The best diet and fitness journal for highly motivated people who use supplements, make good choices, and thrive on goal setting and inspirational motivation. Great if you're on body for life, have been on it before and need to get back on track, or if you live a more fit lifestyle and need an extra push to get to the next level of fat loss and fitness.


The Ultimate Pocket Diet Journal
The larger version of this journal is really awesome with all type of great tips, boxes that you check off for how many veggies you ate (very useful for the less healthy eater), goals, tips, and more. It actually comes with a travel version tucked inside but this pocket version is almost as good and just as useful.