I get a lot of questions from people asking me what a food journal is and why they should consider keeping one. So, I’ve decided to try and answer these questions in this Sharepost.

Food journal or food diary is the *nice* name I’ve come up with so I can more easily discuss this method in polite company. But, in all honesty, I first started keeping one I called it my poop diary and prayed that nobody but me and my doctor would ever read it. 

Whatever you want to call it, a food journal is a...