Clever Fox Food Journal - Daily Food Diary, Meal Planner to Track Calorie and Nutrient Intake, Stick to a Healthy Diet & Achieve Weight Loss Goals

High quality for the price! It is perfect for keto OR any other eating plan. Would also work for a medical food log. It is a 6 month daily food journal. The paper quality at 120gsm is amazing. It is smooth without being slick (hate slick paper). No BLEED-through. It is a well made journal and includes a how-to-use guide, 3 ribbon bookmarks and 3 sheets of stickers just for fun! Has a check box to rate activity 1-10 but no other place to add in exercise. It is truly a food journal. Also includes about 16 sheets (approx 32 pages) of dot gridpaper in the back to add anything you want. Truly well thought out in it's construction and well worth the money.

I love Clever Fox and all their planners...I currently have the weekly, budget, and the now food planner. I was very excited to see this because I’ve been working really hard on my eating habits and thought this would be a great way to track. It’s set up well but there are somethings that I think could use improvement. Along with food tracking I think there should be a larger spot for a daily fitness activity. Also a water tracker where you actually fill in the drips would of been perfect for this set up. The one thing I really wish was included was having the daily food journals broken up with a monthly review. There is a spot in the back where you can track weight trends but a breakup by months would of been ideal. Overall it’ll work for what I need at the moment and I’m excited to see what else Clever Fox comes up with!

Right before Christmas, I received an email from Clever Fox Planner. I have purchased their planners in the past and loved them, and even though I don't use it anymore, I am still subscribed to their email list.This email introduced their new food tracker. They were having a BOGO sale: buy one planner from Amazon and they'd send you another one for free. (They did a similar promotion for their sticker book).Like many people, I am setting weight loss goals for the new year. My primary motivation behind it is my health and my longevity of life. Enter this food tracker.I spent some time last night setting it up. (Like many of my reviews that I write for brand new purchases, I will come back to edit them if anything changes or I discover something that will be helpful to others in deciding to make a purchase). Because this is such a new product for them, I wanted to give some insight to help future customers.The Clever Fox Food Journal is laid out much like their planners, including the same weight paper. (Don't expect any ghosting or bleeding on these pages; they won't. I use both Ink Joy and Flair pens in my planners & journals). MY STARTING POINT has fields for your name, weight and height as well as measurements and a beginning picture. I suppose you can choose to measure and keep track of whatever you choose, however they offer the following suggestions: neck, chest, bicep, waist, hips, thigh, and calf. For these measurements, there is a chart: "Where I am now" and "Target". In true Clever Fox fashion, at the bottom of the page, is a "Reward if Achieved" as well as a target date and a signature. Fancy!On the opposite page is a chance to document your why, how you will feel, and what steps you will take to achieve your goal. And then, the journal begins!It is an undated, daily 26 week journal. Each day, you track not only your breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks (as well as the time you eat them), but you can also track your weight, sleep, water, body fat%, caffeinated drinks (which they've weirdly abbreviated "caffein.") and fruits and vegetables. You can also track your mood for the day (designated by smiley faces), your energy, and your activity. You can also track if you're sugar free, gluten free, lactose free, alcohol free, and nicotine free (lots a tracking here, people! Lots of tracking!)As your tracking each food you eat (labeled "products"), you can also track serving size, calories, protein, fat, and carbs. At the very bottom of the page, you can tally every thing up "subtotal, total, vs target") I'm not sure what subtotal means, but I might use that field to put how much over or under on a macronutrient I was for the day. I'm not sure yet.The inside layout of the journal alternates from a muted dark teal to a muted forest green. I'm not sure why they chose that color, but it is easy on the eyes and calming. I like it.The journal comes with three pages of stickers. Some of the stickers are functional "calories burned", "___ g carbs" and some are motivational "No excuses, no complaints", "greatness takes time". The third sheet includes circle-style, minimalist stickers - "take medication", "track calories", "journal". I have to be honest - I was pretty stoked about the stickers (what Planner Babe doesn't like stickers, amiright?) But. There really isn't a lot of room to place them in the journal. I've placed some on the bottom near the totals. However, these stickers would be EXCELLENT in a planner to remind you to use the journal. (Clever Fox - please keep the stickers!)After the 26 weeks of daily pages, there is a measurement tracker where you can have a one-glance chart of your measurements including weight and body fat %. Opposite that is a page similar to the page at the beginning of the journal: the date, an after picture, final measurements, your target, whether the goal was achieved or not (check box) and a field to write how you can improve if you did NOT reach your goal.After that page is a 2-page spread of products for the five basic food groups (meats, dairy, grains, nuts, fruits & veggies) that you consume on a regular basis (your favorites, perhaps?) This would come in very handy if you were eating a real food and you didn't have a label to track serving size, calories, protein, fat, or carbs. It's also a great place to put some of your favorite foods.In the back of the journal are several grid dot pages (I count 31). This would be an excellent place to document how you're feeling about your journey. You could also use it for notes, shopping lists, those nifty stickers that don't quite fit in the daily grids...Pros:- fun colors with textured covered- layout helps achieve goals- daily tracking- "whole person" tracking (not just weight, but inches, mood, etc)- supports any diet/eating plan- 3 ribbon bookmarks- elastic strap to keep journal closed- elastic pen holderCons:- no back pocket (I really love the back pocket in my Clever Fox planner so I can keep stickers with my planner. Since this journal combes with stickers, it would be nice to have a pocket to place them in. HOWEVER, since the journal stays closed well enough on it's own, I just use the elastic on the back, inside over to hold the stickers - problem solved!)

I haven't started using this journal for more than a week, so I'll come back later and give further thoughts.**QUALITY**Clever Fox always has quality long lasting products and this one is no different.**LAYOUT**The first pages are for inputting where you are at, where you want to be at, and why/how you plan to get there. Very common starter for most food journals.The middle portion is all of your undated food journal pages. It doesn't go by week either, so if you skip a day or a week, it's not like you're leaving a blank page in there. There aren't a lot of options for individual tracking of food types or macros. It does have a box for fruits/vegetables and one for water. I prefer check boxes. But there isn't a place for say tracking how many servings of bread or dairy. It seems to emphasize more on what you are cutting out that day (lactose free, gluten free, alcohol free, sugar free); I personally could do without those.The back portion is your weekly check-ins (weight, measurements). There is also a section for common foods that you eat and what their values are.Lastly, there are bullet journal pages for you to do whatever you want to with them.**EXERCISE**This is not a journal for exercise or workout routines. The most you get on your daily journal page is a scale for how active you were that day. You could probably turn one of the bullet journal pages into a workout chart.**STICKERS**They provide a few pages of stickers, which is common with Clever Fox journals. If you have a lot on each journal day, then you might not have room for stickers here. Since I also use Clever Fox's daily planner, I'd use those stickers in that journal instead.**BOOKMARKS**As with typical Clever Fox journals, you get 3 built in bookmark ribbons, all of the same shade of color. I put one on my current daily journal page, one at the weekly check-in, and the third I haven't designated. If I create a workout log in the bullet journal section, it'll probably go there.**OVERALL**It's a simple food journal. It doesn't interrogate you every meal/day/week on how you did or how you feel. The bullet pages leave it open for you to track additional details if you so desire to.I've had a Fitlosphy Fitbook journal, and I never finished it. It had way too many questions, too much to track, I could never come up with weekly rewards, empty journal pages, and the space for journaling actual food was very small.My only reason for 4 stars is the lack of exercise tracking. It would have been nice if that was included, even in a simple format, somewhere in the journal.

I received the Food Journal on time and in mint condition. Noticeably it had a comprehensive page layout and unusually 3 page-holder ribbons integral in the binding.The planner enables an individual to record pertinent details at the commencement of a weight loss program and record result comparisons up to 6 months down the line. With a day to a page, comprehensive details can be recorded of all meals and a breakdown of Calories, Fat, Carbs, Fiber and Protein. A separate section at the back enables recording of a Product List to record all favourite food types. Several blank pages are also set in the back of the journal which can be used for a myriad of other uses. The pages are covered in feint grid dots to enable line or box marking as required. A 26 week measurement tracker is included on one page at the back of the journal.A double sided single separate page is included to give advice on utilisation of the planner and also details on measurement tracking.On the inside back cover is a paper wallet containing 3 pages of motivational stickers to do with as you wish.....an interesting touch.There is also a warranty card offering a ‘no hassle refund’ upto 60 days after purchase, but I cannot understand who would not find this luxuriously bound Food Journal of immense value when commencing a weight loss program.Clever Fox have produced a winner with this Food Journal; motivational guides are present throughout the journal and the quality and attention to detail make this journal a item of pride to own and use.Get Outlook for iOS

Excellent quality and great for tracking macros.My only gripes are, considering the cost, I would have liked montly review pages to break it down into smaller goals and and get a feel for your monthly losses. It would have also been nice to have a page that lists your weekly weigh ins so that you can see the trend in progress without flicking through every page. There is a page for measurements but it would be nice to have both to cross reference.Shopping list/meal plan pages would also have been ideal so you can go see which weekly meals have given the best losses.Overall, I think its probably a bit overpriced based on content but the quality is wonderful.

As a food journal, this is probably brilliant. However, if you buy it thinking you can also use it as a meal planner (as advertised) then I would suggest looking for something different. It has a very comprehensive section for detailing daily food intake but there’s no room to meal plan ahead and allow for changes and variability to what you actually record eating (if you used the food diary areas to plan). There are 29 blank dotted pages at the back which I suppose would allow for 26 weeks meal plan and shopping list but for £20 I would really expect it to have this already drawn in with a perforated Section for shopping lists. It also doesn’t leave much room for jotting down recipes or ideas or anything else.I’ve included photos of the various sections. It has one page for the starting point and goals, then 6 months worth of daily food diary pages, then a measurement tracker and result page, a double spread products record page, and finally the dotted blank pages.MAJOR PLUS SIDE - I contacted the seller to ask how people used it as a meal planner as I was disappointed there wasn’t a section for it and after two emails, they refunded me in full without asking.

Just what I needed. Though fat and carb free would have made more sense than lactose and gluten seeing as these are allergies so every day would need to be 'free'.Anyone without allergies would need to do a long spell of detox rather than just a day.Also a section for calories burned each day would be more useful than a goal total. It's great if your goal is 1200 a day but of you don't burn enough then whats the point in tracking calories?

Loving this food planner , it includes everything l want to manage daily in my weight loss journey. Will definitely keep me accountable and a good tool to feature on my Instagram page too. 😊. Definitely a beautiful addition to any journalisers journals. Enjoy