Click here for more articles by Kormedi.com. People who make a habit of recording what they eat every day may lose more weight, according to a new study. Those who tracked their food intake nearly every day of the week lost an average of 11 percent of their initial body weight over six months. Researchers at MyNetDiary, a U.S.-based diet and weight-management app, analyzed six months of usage data from 5,132 app users to examine the relationship between food-tracking frequency and weight change. The participants had an average age of 42.1, and 72.8 percent were women. The researchers counted a day as a “food-tracking day” if a user entered at least one food item into the app. Participants were then grouped according to their average number of tracking days per week, and their weight changes were compared. The results showed a clear trend: The more frequently people recorded their food intake, the greater their weight loss tended to be. Those who tracked their food six to seven days a week lost an average of 11 percent of their initial body weight over six months. By comparison, those w