Tracking Your Health the Easy Way outlines simple ways to track health and diet progress without focusing too much on numbers. It recommends classifying foods as "heavy" or "light" and keeping activity logs simple by noting things like "went rollerblading." The goal is to balance intake and exercise over time. Progress should be noticeable within a month if consumption of heavy foods decreases while light foods and physical activity increase, using the first day of tracking as a baseline. Keeping it fun rather than a chore helps develop a healthier lifestyle.

1. Tracking Your Health the Easy Way
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2. The saying “You are what you eat” does not do much for people who want to change the way they feel about their bodies. A complete change of diet is out of the question for most people, as the sudden switch can trigger shut downs within systems that depended on the diet. This is an extreme example, but people should be aware of worst-case scenarios when doing something drastic to change their lifestyles.
The Measuring Part
The trick to getting healthier is by doing the changes in small and measured increments. The only downside to this strategy is that it is hard to see changes, and keeping track of everything is a tedious nightmare. Fortunately, there are ways of keeping up with what they eat effectively, and calculating the exercise needed to shed the unwanted weight.
The first thing people need to do is to forget about the numbers, or at least not think of them as the measure of success. Two things will happen if this is how people go about their regimen. First, they will spend hours on the computer looking up food and their corresponding figures on the Internet instead of doing what they need to do to get healthy. Second, they will dedicate every part of their diet to the formula, taking the fun out of eating better.
The Exercise Part
The proper way of keeping track of dietary progress is to keep the language as simple as possible. Something as simple as “no workout today”, or “went rollerblading in the park” is just fine. The only goal of dietary tracking is to make sure the balance of the effort in the exercise, and the intake of food is in balance.

3. The Eating Part
When it comes to the food part of the equation, people need to classify which foods are heavy and which are light. This is a relatively easy job, as deciding what goes where should be obvious based on their appearance and taste. Through the course of the diet, the consumption of heavy foods should start to decrease, while both physical activity and the consumption of light increase. People can use their first day as the base line.
The pace of the diet depends on the person, but there should be some difference by the end of the first month. Getting healthy should not be a chore; keeping it fun would result in a healthier lifestyle.
The Eating Part
When it comes to the food part of the equation, people need to classify which foods are heavy and which are light. This is a relatively easy job, as deciding what goes where should be obvious based on their appearance and taste. Through the course of the diet, the consumption of heavy foods should start to decrease, while both physical activity and the consumption of light increase. People can use their first day as the base line.

4. The pace of the diet depends on the person, but there should be some difference by the end of the first month. Getting healthy should not be a chore; keeping it fun would result in a healthier lifestyle.
SOURCES:
http://www.peertrainer.com/diet/be_sure_to_write_down_everything.aspx
http://stylemagazines.com.au/food/
http://www.helpguide.org/articles/healthy-eating/healthy-eating.htm