Diet & Fitness Journal: Your Personal Guide to Optimum Health (Diary, Exercise) (Little Black Journals) Spiral-bound – December 1, 2012

I'm about to order this Little Black Journal for the third time. Each time, I've browsed the other diaries on Amazon, and keep coming back.The look and feel of the diary is nice. I like the band bookmark. I like how the spiral binding allows it to lay nice and flat for writing, yet the cover/binding covers the spiral for a clean look.There is plenty of details in the columns with the food tracking. I like that the last column is flexible. Other journals don't have quite the detail here, and I really appreciate it. This is the main reason I keep coming back! I don't always track every column, but the flexibility is nice.There is good space to jot down exercise. If you had an extensive weight lifting routine you might run out of room, but there seems to be generally enough space.I like tracking my measurements. It has given me "non-scale victories" when the scale has refused to move.The tables in the back are helpful when nutrition data is scarce. I underline foods I frequently eat for faster reference.A couple of minor things: I tend to run out of lines for food records, but am able to squeeze everything in with my tiny handwriting. My only other minor complaint is to have a year's worth of pages... but I am willing to tolerate these minor things when considering the convenient size of the book. To accommodate more lines or more pages would make the volume unwieldy.Overall, I love this book and am happy to submit another order.March 2013 UPDATE:I am still pleased and ordering this journal yet again. :) The orange paper label comes off, the black cover is quite unassuming and I don't mind letting it sit out on my desk at the office. Still has great space for my needs, I like to use the final column for Weight Watchers points tracking. Thanks again for a great product!

Ordered this journal at the beginning of January and lost about 15 lbs. by the beginning of March.I'm a serious yo-yo dieter and decided to make lifestyle changes this go around - no diet plans, gimmicks etc. Just healthy eating and exercise. I have to say that I utilized every column provided in this journal (calories, fat, sodium, protein, fiber etc.) and was enlightend by what I was eating.I found the introductions amazingly simple and helped me finally understand the math behind loosing weight. I feel like everything makes sense now - how many calories should be coming from fat, protein, carbs etc.; what my calories in vs. calories out accumulate too!I mean I can pretty much figure out what the scale will show before even stepping on it! Keeps me on track without discouragement because I finally see how I can control my weight loss instead of leaving it up to someone or something else!The only con was that I fell off the journaling for the month of March due to traveling and vacations etc. I put back on about 5 lbs. Still fighting to really make the lifestyle changes, but this is more my problem than with the product.I just ordered my second book and sent one to my Mom - since she was so impressed with my 15 lbs. in 2 months! Can't wait to say good bye the next 15 lbs.NOTE: I am amazed and the speed Amazon ships these items. I ordered yesterday and received them today! Thank You!

I'm a six foot tall, former high school athlete with hypothyroidism. I'm trying to get it under control with my levothyroxine, diet and exercise. But anyone who has hypothyroidism knows it is extremely hard to get your weight to behave. One minute I'm losing weight like crazy the next minute I hit my stride and the weight lost either stops or is very, very slow. Visits to my doctor weren't very encouraging because she never believes what I tell her. I figured having my food intake and exercise written down will give her insight to what I do and how I exercise. I bought this to help me along. It's really pretty good and in the ten weeks that I've had it, I've lost ten pounds on the nose monitoring my food intake and exercise. My only problem with this book is this, there are too many or too few categorized slots. By that I mean, I may have a big breakfast, no lunch and a small dinner one day. This book offers about five slots for breakfast, four for lunch and about seven for dinner. I try to make breakfast my largest meal of the day, salad or a sandwich or soup for lunch and steamed veggies and a small piece of meat for dinner. I feel like there should be an equal amount of slots through out the day because I don't know about anyone else but my meals fluctuate. Also too few snack slots. I end up adding things to the notes section. I never eat a mid morning snack but I will have an afternoon snack which is usually nuts, fruit, yogurt or cottage cheese. Sometimes if I skip lunch when I have a long day I'll have a piece of fruit, a little later if I'm still hungry I'll have a handful of almonds or sunflower seeds in shell because they keep my mouth busy, and if I'm still hungry at about four or five I'll have something more filling like a plain Greek yogurt. So I think there needs to be more snack slots. I did try putting my extra snacks or extra foods in other spots the second week I had the book but I became confuzzled (confused and frustrated) some days. And last too many exercise slots! Some days I do straight cardio, be it walking or a Zumba class, treadmill or stationary bike but there are like ten slots when I only need one. Plus the weights section is a little confusing to me. It's a really good book and it has tons of information but there are just sections that I felt needed a little more, or less, options.