The dreaded food journal can be your best friend and accountability partner when it comes to implementing a healthy nutrition program. I have heard it all when it comes to fitness and food journals and the love/hate relationship that keeping track of food intake can cause. The problem is really not the food journal, but it is the issue of not being honest with ourselves. When life is going great and our program is on track, we gladly write down every healthy morsel placed in our face with a smile and will even share the exciting events that are producing the positive results. On the other side of that coin is the need to hide or even toss our journals to the curb as temptations to go “off plan” creep into the program. It is almost as if we convince ourselves that being unhealthy is not happening if it is not written down in the journal. Believe me, you can run but your body will not hide the consequences of unhealthy choices. The fact is the food j...