Comments on: Improve your diet with your mobile phone!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:03:42 +0000

I was just thinking about doing this yesterday… not so much as a record or for health reasons. But you know the show You Are What You Eat? They put a person’s entire diet for a week on a table… I’ve always been curious what my diet for a week would look like? Really colorful or sort of bland? I don’t know, but it sounds like a fun project!

By: catering equipment

catering equipment — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:05:47 +0000

Great idea. I remember showing you food diary to the dietician being stressful!
Good that tings have changed!

By: Sophie

Sophie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:53:47 +0000

Lucy – it sounds like this may well make a good project for your brother. The tricky bit is broaching the subject tactfully!
Johanna – so interesting what you say about blogging making you more aware of portion sizes and colours. I always think colours are a great way of making sure that you eat a variety of foods
Michelle – that’s a good twist on the idea; if you eat out a lot then receipt pictures could be handy for watching your waist and your budget. I’m sure there are so many things you could use a cellphone camera to track
Ellen – I think you’ve hit upon something there. It’s probably much more normal in this day and age to get your phone out at the table than a notepad and pen. And you’re right, this is a much better way to track if you are a visual person
Kris C – fabulous idea, sending it to a posterous account is a great way to be able to review the weeks eatings all in one go.
For those of you trying this out, feel free to post twitter/posterous account details here so that you can connect up

By: Kris C

Kris C — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:12:09 +0000

This is a great idea, and you could take it a step further with a free posterous account that you can make comments on and share with friends too. My current posterous account is tied to Twitter, which I wouldn't want for this, but I might create a new one just for this purpose. Very cool idea, because how confronting is it to post pics of mounds of mashed potatoes or something? LOL!! This would be a great way to share good, healthy recipes also. If anyone else wants to create a posterous account to do this, let's connect as friends. I will post my account for it when I create it. Great idea! http://posterous.com/

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:24:15 +0000

This is much easier than a written diary and I think I’d be more compelled to whip out my phone than a pen and pad. Plus, I’m a visual person — must give this a try.

By: Michelle @ What Does Your Body Good?

Michelle @ What Does Your Body Good? — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:17:10 +0000

nice idea! i’ve never been good at record keeping, food diaries or otherwise. but it’s making me think that maybe it’s easier to take a photo of receipts rather than saving the paper for doing my monthly budget… gotta love the cell phone.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:02:07 +0000

Interesting idea – I like the idea of photos to help with thinking about colours in my diet and also portion size – it is something blogging has made me more aware of! But I am very mobile phone shy so my natural inclination is for pen and paper!

By: Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:05:35 +0000

Brilliant!
This is such an amazing idea, Sophie. Revolutionary. My brother is a very, very overweight man who is, co-incidentally, obsessed with his mobile phone.
Brilliant.