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Typically most tools are somewhat self-explanatory after installation. Beyond this, there are some tips and advice on how to consistently track diet:   

Typically most tools are somewhat self-explanatory after installation. Beyond this, there are some tips and advice on how to consistently track diet:   

* Buying a kitchen scale can be useful to accurately track the amounts eaten, in particular if you cook yourself or eat at restaurants that don't have standard food quantities.

* Buying a kitchen scale can be useful to accurately track the amounts eaten, in particular if you cook yourself or eat at restaurants that don't have standard food quantities. Fractions of a package too.  

*Frequently, people engaging in diet tracking find that the manual labor of recording their diets becomes too onerous and quit after a few months. [[User:DG|DG]] suggests regularly repeating meals as this a) speeds up the speed of logging data as it will be a 'recently used meal' (e.g. as available in the tool [[Bitesnap]]) and b) also can help find patterns in the data.

*Frequently, people engaging in diet tracking find that the manual labor of recording their diets becomes too onerous and quit after a few months. [[User:DG|DG]] suggests regularly repeating meals as this a) speeds up the speed of logging data as it will be a 'recently used meal' (e.g. as available in the tool [[Bitesnap]]) and b) also can help find patterns in the data. Wildly inaccurate measurements are still better than nothing, especially for things like eliminating a food as a problem.  

== Table of common diet tracking tools==

== Table of common diet tracking tools==