This Food Diary requires you to record everything you eat or drink in the next 7 days. Each day has a specific section for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with areas to indentify any snacks that you have consumed. Please be as honest as possible, as this will provide me with the whole picture and enable understand your current situation.
How to fill out the food diary:
Food Eaten: This requires you identify the food that you consumed, provide as much detail as you can – see detail provided below.
Time:Provide the rough time that the food was eaten.
Amount:This section requires you to identify the volume of a particular food that was eat. Some foods are hard to distinguish the exact volume, but try to explain how much is consumed using small, medium, large, plateful etc.
Type of Food:The type of food identifies whether you understand the components that you are consuming. The options are: carbohydrates, protein, fibre, fat (saturated or unsaturated).
Comments:This section allows you to comment on any of the food you have consumed, what you write here is completely up to you. If you feel there is any additional information that you feel you need to add you can put it here.
If you have any questions throughout, please contact me on [put your email or number]
DAY 1 Date: ______Meal / Food Eaten / Time / Amount / Type of Food / Comments
Breakfast / Brown toast with peanut butter / 8:30am / 2 slices / Carbs + protein / Thinnly spread
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Snacks
Water / (glasses)
DAY 2 Date: ______
Meal / Food Eaten / Time / Amount / Type of Food / Comments
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Snacks
Water / (glasses)
DAY 3 Date: ______
Meal / Food Eaten / Time / Amount / Type of Food / Comments
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Snacks
Water / (glasses)
DAY 4 Date: ______
Meal / Food Eaten / Time / Amount / Type of Food / Comments
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Snacks
Water / (glasses)
DAY 5 Date: ______
Meal / Food Eaten / Time / Amount / Tyep of Food / Comments
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Snacks
Water / (glasses)
DAY 6 Date: ______
Meal / Food Eaten / Time / Amount / Type of Food / Comments
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Snacks
Water / (glasses)
DAY 7 Date: ______
Meal / Food Eaten / Time / Amount / Type of food / Comments
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Snacks
Water / (glasses)
Prepared for you by the AustralianCollege of Sport and Fitness 2013