MY HONESTY DIARY

YOUR best friend is your Honesty Diary. You write down every little thing you eat so it’s in front of you in black and white. Buy a new notebook or diary so you can start afresh, and you are then your own: Diet coach Personal trainer Therapist And, even better, you come for free. Any time you feel up or down, you make a note of it.

I shed a fair few tears in those early days, I can tell you. Then, later on down the line, they turned to tears of joy. I can’t stress enough how much of a game changer it was for me when I acknowledged what I was eating on a daily basis.

Once I was realistic about the fact I was the one who had made – and was keeping – myself fat, I was able to start making real, substantial changes.

It’s so important to write things down and face them. Over the years, I’d told so many lies to myself about losing weight, I’d completely deafened myself with them. I’d got used to being different from other people and labelling myself the “fat, funny one”.

Until I recognized that the only person I was lying to about the mess I’d got myself into was me, I couldn’t move on. This is how I laid out my own Honesty Diary.

Every day I would write down the following information:

What time I ate What I ate Why I ate it How it made me feel Each night at bedtime I wrote a brief summary of my day, and I went to sleep holding the image of the all-new future me in my head.

Writing down what I was eating each day was so important LISA STRESSES THE NEED TO KEEP A FOOD DIARY