keeping a record
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Keeping A Record
• This unit asks you to take action.
• You don't have to change your eating patterns yet.
• All you need to do is keep a record of what you eat.
• Record keeping can influence food choices.
• It is a form of self-suggestion.
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Keeping A Record
• There is nothing you need to do except keep that record.
• Self-suggestion becomes effective on its own.
• The brain connects intentions (self-suggestions), feelings and action in the inner
mind.
• Keeping a record can influence your food choices if you let it happen.
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Keeping A Record
• If you let yourself try it, you'll discover how record-keeping can work as self-
suggestion for you.
• Do not worry, if at first, you resist keeping lists.
• Lots of people are like you.
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Keeping A Record
• Lots of people sigh, and say, "I just can't remember to do it."
• They say they hate lists.
• They say record-keeping is a burden and everyone is busy.
• But keeping a record is easier to do than you think.
• The purpose of a record is to create self-awareness.
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Keeping A Record
• When people keep an accurate record they become aware of what they eat
• Record-keeping gets linked to "Thinking" parts in the brain.
• Thinking helps you resist that big helping of cake.
• Thinking of your record encourages healthy food choices.
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Keeping A Record
• Lists are facts that keep you mindful when you try to forget what you ate.
• That is part of how self-suggestion works.
• You begin to be interested in the list as a score-keeper.
• You do not want to write down that you ate sugary, fat-laden foods.
• So, you begin to resist them as long as you keep a record.
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Keeping A Record
• Keeping a record gets you thinking before eating.
• On a deeper level, keeping a record, connects you to your desire to change.
• Record-keeping is an application of self-suggestion that entices you into
making good decisions.
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Keeping A Record
• You have already suggested to yourself that you want to change.
• Record-keeping supports that wish to change.
• Record-keeping makes change easier.
• You and your record may develop an interesting bond.
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Keeping A Record
• When people keep a record, they find they say "no" more easily to poor food
choices.
• Think of record-keeping as a wordless form of self-suggestion.
• A successful record day can make you feel good.
• Try it. You may like it.
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Keeping A Record
• Over a period of days or a few weeks, record-keeping may turn into an inner
ally, an inner helper.
• It might be interesting to notice how that happens.
• Even if you quit record keeping after a time, you can always go back to
keeping a record.
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Keeping A Record
• Some people keep a food diary on a cell phone.
• You can keep a record on napkins.
• Just save the napkins!
• This program has a Food Tracking Record Form to track what you eat
• You also can design your own form.
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Keeping A Record
• You can use the resources area below the program to download food tracking
sheets
• Press the audio icon to learn more about self-suggestion and record-keeping.
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Keeping A Record