Diet & Fitness Journal: Your Personal Guide to Optimum Health (Diary, Exercise) (Little Black Journals) Spiral-bound – December 1, 2012

I'm about to order this Little Black Journal for the third time. Each time, I've browsed the other diaries on Amazon, and keep coming back.The look and feel of the diary is nice. I like the band bookmark. I like how the spiral binding allows it to lay nice and flat for writing, yet the cover/binding covers the spiral for a clean look.There is plenty of details in the columns with the food tracking. I like that the last column is flexible. Other journals don't have quite the detail here, and I really appreciate it. This is the main reason I keep coming back! I don't always track every column, but the flexibility is nice.There is good space to jot down exercise. If you had an extensive weight lifting routine you might run out of room, but there seems to be generally enough space.I like tracking my measurements. It has given me "non-scale victories" when the scale has refused to move.The tables in the back are helpful when nutrition data is scarce. I underline foods I frequently eat for faster reference.A couple of minor things: I tend to run out of lines for food records, but am able to squeeze everything in with my tiny handwriting. My only other minor complaint is to have a year's worth of pages... but I am willing to tolerate these minor things when considering the convenient size of the book. To accommodate more lines or more pages would make the volume unwieldy.Overall, I love this book and am happy to submit another order.March 2013 UPDATE:I am still pleased and ordering this journal yet again. :) The orange paper label comes off, the black cover is quite unassuming and I don't mind letting it sit out on my desk at the office. Still has great space for my needs, I like to use the final column for Weight Watchers points tracking. Thanks again for a great product!

I love this journal. It's small and easy to carry with me. I really like how the pages are designed, because it makes it easy to record and track whatever is important to you. At the end of every week, there is an end-of-the-week section where you may gain a larger perspective of your performance for the week. I have had other diet journals in the past, and I definitely like this one the best.The only thing I disliked was the nutritional information in the back. I understand the book is small, so it's difficult to make this comprehensive. However, it would be helpful if the columns were organized in the same order as the daily data sheets. It would also be helpful if they included the same nutritional information as suggested to record on the daily sheets. Usually I use online nutritional information or I just use the nutritional panels on the back of the package, so it's not really that big of a deal.Overall, I would definitely buy this book again!!!

I liked this journal, still currently using it. I love all of the great, straight-forward information in the beginning of the journal. I love having weekly weigh-in, an opportunity to write a 2-3 sentence daily reflection and an opportunity to write down my workout and my food consumption. The major con is that if you don't have a mechanical pencil or a sharpened pencil or fine point pen, it will be very difficult to keep your notations within the small boxes/lines provided. I am thinking to re-order. I've only been using for 7 weeks now. Since the beginning I'm amazed at learning what the calorie content is of what I'm eating. It has allowed me to see my faults and make better choices and I feel better as well as look better. Journaling is something I want to do forever. If I'm unable to use this or at time when I don't feel like looking for a sharpened pencil, I will use [fitclick]. I use them cojointly. That site is free but when you don't have a computer, this journal is the ticket to a hot body and high consciousness to make a life change!Update 1/12/10So, I am almost done with the journal. I like the size and the fact that I can tote it in my purse; however again the spaces are tiny so I often input my data on fitclick and use the two concurrently just in case I don't have access to a computer etc. I like the fact that you can pretty much tell how much weight you will lose per week based on calculating your calories consumed, calories used, net calories and the basal metabolic rate. I enjoy being able to track my weekly progress stats (weight/measurements and thoughts). Cool book, I think I want it again, but may opt for a different style to try them on. If I am not satisfied with the next, I will come back to this one. About to order another journal as of today.

This journal asks you for everything! It's been nice to see what I'm eating and how many calories, fat, sodium, carbs, fiber and protein, but some days I just dont have time to track all of that.Plus there's not enough room to write in all the foods that you're eating. The day is broken into breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner. Sometimes I have a big variety of items for lunch and it rolls into the snack section.In the back of the book there's a quick guide to some foods, but it doesn't give you the same information that the book asks you to keep track of, which makes no sense, and is really annoying because I still have to get online to look up sodium count of items that are in the back of the book.I may keep this up all year. Been a month so far. But it may just be asking for too much information.It is a perfect size and very discrete though which I do like a lot.