it is very important to keep records on your diet ! you can buy books that you can use are simply use a memo book . it is allso very important to weigh i suggess ones a week. truck stop scales are not advizeable, they are not aqurate and you well have on clothes probly with things that are heavy in your pockets i allways weigh on sunday morning and before i eat our drink that morning. i allso have a good blood psi. device and take my blood psi. as well. you can weigh as much as 10 lbs. heavy the night before and that is mostly water weight. if you dont under stand it you can get disscuraged fast if you dont think you have lost any weight. when i started it toke 3 weeks before i lost my 1'st pound then i was looseing as much as 8 lbs. aweek and then i would go for a week are to not looseing any,it is a mistery to me but you lose size then lbs. size then lbs. so dont panic if you dont lose all the time it well come !   next is measureing you can buy a semstris(cloth) tape make it in you gournal waist,chest,neck,hip,bust measurements and right that down after you get closer to your goal you can do arms and legs as well. a cool thing you mite concider is takeing a picture ones a mouth till you hit your goal and then make a calender with the pitcures to make you remember what you did. speeking of goals lets set one what yours ? you can find out your b.m.i. online just google b,m.i. and take you pick their are many sites to help you find a goal. i want you to make your self a promise that no matter what you well not give up ! though out you diet you mite hit a platue that is were you feel that you are stuck and not loseing any more weight but stay with it you well  lose it but if you give up you will not and dont do that please ! if you want you can keep me up to date with your weight loss at www.myspace.com/458905411  and i well track your progress with you on  the offical http://www.dogmandiet.com/ most looser site  on myspace.com  i have gotten my reword from time to time from people along the way who have notice my change and that is so filling when some one says boy you sure have lost a lot of weight are even didnot reconized me at first.but the biggest reword is getting my life back it feels good so lets get started  dogman