Notebook Uses: Food and Exercise Journal

Here’s someone who is just starting to use a notebook to track food and exercise:

First things first, to find out if I can keep track of my eating and exercising, I have started a food and exercise journal. This is nothing fancy right now, it is just a spiral notebook left over from school. Once I have proven to myself that I can actually keep track of everything I want to keep track of, and that I want to continue with this nonsense, I might actually buy a Moleskine or some other “nice” notebook.

The format of my notebook is currently free form. I tried to find some templates, but this apparently is not as common as I would have thought. I think I will discover would have been a helpful template to follow.

Drawing the line in the sand, I wrote down my weight, bodyfat percentage and all the common lifting measurement (arm, thigh, waist, chest, hips and neck)

This brings up two common notebook questions:
If you are just starting to use a notebook, is it better to try it with a cheap one and then upgrade to a nice one once you’ve gotten into a routine? Or is it better to start with a nice notebook to encourage yourself to keep using it?
Is it better to use a notebook that has blank, free form pages, or is it easier to have template pages when the use is something specific like this?

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