For most of 2020, I struggled with diet logging.
I'd known for years that fostering a habit of tracking my food and lifestyle choices would be supportive of my health, but I just couldn't seem to get myself to keep up with it. Every time I got motivated to start, I would inevitably quit within days, and consequently I'd beat myself up mentally for what I perceived as a lack of self-discipline and focus.
Despite the fact that logging in a notebook was fast and simple, it still seemed like too much energy expenditure... too much of a draw away from more pressing matters. It was a pain to keep track of my log, and I felt unsatisfied with the amount of information I was actually gathering.
Fast forward to November 2020. After completing HLC 2 training through the CHEK Institute for the 2nd time, my mind was made up. I needed to figure out how to diet log consistently so that I could authentically coach and guide my clients through it as they resolved their health challenges.
So I began researching habit change.
Among other things, I learned that habit change experts (like James Clear in "Atomic Habits") have shown that diet logging is a "keystone habit," meaning that establishing this one habit in your routine unlocks your ability to easily establish many other health-supportive habits. This was incredibly validating and spurred me forward.
I realized that to change my habits successfully I needed to change my diet logging so that it was:
1) obvious
2) attractive
3) easy
4) satisfying
With those criteria in mind, I began work on a custom, CHEK-inspired diet log.
After much trial and error, my efforts have culminated here in the Ò28-Day Eidetic Health Diet and Lifestyle Tracker (Version 3.0).Ó
My dream for this log is as follows Ð ÒThe Eidetic Health Diet Log supports CHEK practitioners and their clients in transforming their health by helping them to easily establish the keystone habit of diet logging in their livesÓ
This diet logging system has changed my life, and IÕm sure it will change yours too!