Photo: Corinne Tobias (a.k.a. willworkforfoodgirl... a.k.a. Health Nuttier writer)

There are two things more than I love more than dieting. Okay, I could probably list a billion things that I love more than dieting. But the two things I was thinking of were food and photos. I can never keep track of calorie counting, not even for a day. Weight watchers made me feel like a fat accountant. And cleansing just feels too taxing on my system (that was a Freudian accounting slip… that must mean almost tax time kiddos!). But I still have some work to do to get my body back into pre-holiday-pie shape, so when I heard about photo food journaling, I thought… Bingo! I can do that.

I LOVE taking pictures of food. It’s like my favorite thing to do. That may sound sad, but I’m seriously into it. I started doing it for my vegan recipe blog a few years ago, and I absolutely love doing it. It’s why I cook. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t cook half of the stuff I do if I knew I wouldn’t be able to take 30 pictures of it when it was done.

So, enough about my love of food pictures, let’s talk about starting a photo food journal. It’s simple. You just take a picture of every single thing that you eat.

There are so many things that I love about this idea. First off, it forces you to take a look at every single thing that you’re putting into your body. Plus, in theory it would also ward off binging. I mean, you can’t very well take a picture of something after you’ve eaten it. This means that you’ll have to put a little thought into how many of those chips you’re going to have before you go to town on them. Fill a bowl, snap it. Fill another bowl, snap it. Fill another bowl, and you’ll probably start thinking that you’re eating too many chips.

I took a test run yesterday but left out my midnight snacks like a real cheater. But starting today, I’m going to photo food journal the hell out of  my life to see how it goes. Wish me luck!