I’m finding it really useful to use Twitter to plan and update on my running. It’s keeping me motivated to go running after work when previously I might have changed my mind. I thought about using it to keep a kind of ongoing food diary, and it would work great for this if you want to try it, but I’ve decided to do something a bit different.

I’m going to use Flickr (an online photosharing website) to keep a visual food diary so basically I use my phone to photo everything I eat, upload it to Flickr, tag it and..voila…a visual food diary.  The general idea being that rather than having a text-based list of everything I eat, I can see at a glance a visual representation of my daily food intake. Rather than being calorie-counting obsessed (for the moment anyway- we will look at calorie counting tools in due course), the idea is to get an overall view of:

• portion size
• variety of food
• colours of food (which gives some indication of variety of food and therefore different nutrients)
• intake of fruit and veg

(This also will hopefully work on the basis that I’ll be too mortified to post pics of huge servings, junk food and the odd snacks that usually go unaccounted for.)

Seriously though, it carries on the idea of increasing my motivation to improve my diet by being accountable to more than just myself and of viewing my daily food intake from a perspective other than calories.


View the TechnoTrotter’s Flickr food diary



How to: Flickr

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