Diet discipline

I've had a lot of conversation with my clients lately regarding the role diet plays in meeting their goals.  It seems that most of them have a reasonable understanding of what they need to do, but lack discipline in certain areas.  In other areas, they may not even know what the triggers are that lead to unfortunate eating habits. I encourage my clients to start keeping a journal on their diet habits.  As a practice this will help them to recognize irregular patterns in their eating habits.  Keeping a journal gives one the ability to take a snapshot of their diet for each day. Then notes could be made detailing those times when the diet goes crazy.  These notes provide an opportunity to communicate with yourself regarding how you felt while eating badly or any other unique circumstance that may have led to a breakdown in the routine. These detailed notes can be used to make corrections in eating and avoid certain triggers, for bad eating, altogether.