Self-Monitoring Can Give Your More Options

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While studies suggest the use of technology to track food intake and exercise might lessen the burden of self-monitoring, it is the learning of self-monitoring skills that results in more successful outcomes for long-term weight management. Through self-monitoring, you can become more aware of your weight and how it relates to your energy intake and expenditure as well as create personalized goals for achieving a healthier lifestyle.

Technology can make it easier to track goals and remain motivated to continue a healthy lifestyle and online support can provide social accountability, while also providing access to healthy recipes and nutrition information. Overall, self-monitoring a weight plan is an important factor in determining the success of any weight loss program. Recording your progress with truthfulness, consistency, and timeliness will go a long way toward helping to meet your goals.

Self-Assess Your Progress for Better Results

When you try to lose weight without self-monitoring your actions and results, you are much more likely to consume unhealthy food and drinks as well as skip exercise. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Holds You Accountable for Decisions – Self-monitoring teaches you how to self-assess how well your new dietary and exercise behaviors are working and holds you accountable for the future decisions you make.

2) Helps You Balance Energy Intake – The goal of self-monitoring your weight loss program is to increase your self-awareness of how much energy you consume compared to how much energy you burn.

3) Measures Actionable Goals – Self-monitoring your weight loss plan can help you identify eating patterns, create a healthier dietary baseline, and measure your progress for needed behavioral changes.

4) Gives You Better Options – Self-monitoring your daily food intake and physical activities will give you better options for enjoying yourself while improving your health and wellness.

Tools for Self-Monitoring Your Weight Loss Journey

Emerging technologies demonstrate promise for further reducing the time-burden of self-monitoring to collect the information needed for self-regulation of your weight loss journey and better outcomes. The latest weight management technologies, such as food bite counters and photo-based dietary tracking systems, have the potential to greatly reduce the hassle of self-monitoring and provide more accurate data for self-regulation. One true advantage of self-monitoring your weight loss journey using the latest technologies comes from the accuracy of real time data entries as compared to waiting until the end of the day to record results by reflecting on your memory.

The experienced weight loss staff at Metabolic Research Center can help you personalize a strategy to shed fat while improving your health for longer and more productive life. Call today to schedule your free weight loss evaluation.