If you’ve ever thought about working with a nutritionist or health coach, you may be familiar with the idea of a “health log” or “food log.” As much as we’d love for people to look at us and magically tell us the answers to all our problems, that’s not how it works.
Using a health log can be very helpful if you’re trying to optimize your energy levels throughout the day, increase your athletic performance, figure out the source of your indigestion, or solve any other number of health questions.
The good news is you can try to DIY some of this work yourself! We’ve made a free health log with detailed instructions to guide you towards a thorough understanding of your own health.
Here’s the basic gist of it:
Record key health metrics for a 4-7 day period
Look through this information for patterns
Try one tweak at a time to your habits or routines
Reassess and perhaps repeat this process