{"id":2509,"date":"2009-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2009\/02\/write-what-you-eat.html"},"modified":"2009-02-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T00:00:00","slug":"write-what-you-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2009\/02\/write-what-you-eat.html","title":{"rendered":"Write What You Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A helpful exercise for losing weight is to journal your eating patterns. Take a few moments to think about how you eat.   Do you have three meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner?  Or do you &#8220;graze,&#8221; eating little amounts throughout the day?  Do you ever starve yourself, binge-eat, or purge? (By this I mean going without food for long periods of time, or eating huge amounts of food uncontrollably, and\/or causing yourself to vomit afterwards.)  Those behaviors are possible signs of deeper physical or psychological problems.  If you do this, please contact a medical doctor immediately, as such behaviors might be dangerous or even life-threatening. <\/p>\n<p>Just keep a record of what and how much you eat, and when.  I&#8217;m not suggesting any particular diet. What I am offering is the possibility to spot a pattern; just simple encouragement to write about some habits that may not be serving you well &#8211; with too many servings, or possibly not eating enough. For me, keeping logs, or journals of my eating behaviors turned out to be a useful way to become conscious of how, what, when and where I ate, and ultimately helped me learn to get exactly what I needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Norris Chumley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helpful exercise for losing weight is to journal your eating patterns. Take a few moments to think about how you eat. Do you have three meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner? 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