A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that dieters who kept a daily food diary ( or diet journal ), lost twice as much weight as those who did not keep a food log, suggesting that if you write your food down, you wouldn't eat as many calories.

He kept a diary about his experiences there.

Throughout this period Orwell kept a wartime diary.

Himmler's diary, which he kept intermittently from age 10, shows that he took a keen interest in current events, dueling, and " the serious discussion of religion and sex ".

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

In 1779, Adams began a diary that he kept until just before he died in 1848.

William Dusinberre has argued that Polk's diary, which he kept during his presidency, was written for later publication, and does not represent Polk's policy.

From 1986 to 1987, Sixx kept a daily diary of his heroin addiction and eventually entered rehab in January 1988.

Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 ) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.

King kept a very candid diary from 1893 until his death in 1950.

Williams kept pocket-sized diaries for 1942 and 1947 ( he kept no diaries for 1943 to 1946 as he was touring the Far East in the army ); a desk diary for 1948 ; pocket-sized diaries for 1949 and 1950 ; desk diaries for 1951 to 1965 ; standard edition desk diaries for 1966 to 1971, and finally A4-sized executive desk diaries for 1972 to 1988.

A diary kept by a member of the Matsudaira clan, the Amakusa Gunki, relates: " Men from Kōga in Omi Province who concealed their appearance would steal up to the castle every night and go inside as they pleased.

Travelers brought books, Bibles, trail guides, and writing quills, ink and paper for letters ( about one in 200 kept a diary ).

* Newton Barton Diary, 1894 – 1895 – A shipboard diary kept by able seaman Newton Barton on one of his voyages to recruit South Sea Islanders for the Queensland cane fields.

Canaris kept detailed records of these atrocities in his personal diary which he entrusted to Werner Schrader, one of his subordinates and fellow resistance member.

Barbaro was reportedly a loner who kept a diary describing several " battle plans " for his attack on the school.

By 8 November Gerrit de Veer, the ships carpenter who kept a diary, reported a shortage of beer and bread, with wine being rationed four days later.

He also became deeply immersed in the culture ; in a diary he kept of the journey he comments on the buildings, the picture galleries, the church services, and the education system, showing his wide interests and critical judgement.

In the diary she kept briefly early in 1929, she wrote of her loneliness, her impatience with life in provincial Dallas, and her love of talking pictures.

He also kept a series of journals that contained his notebooks for astronomical observations and his diary.

" Patchen kept a diary from the age of twelve and read Dante, Homer, Burns, Shakespeare and Melville.

In Slide Rule quoted from the diary he kept during the R-100's successful test flight to Canada.

Hay's diary and writings during the Civil War are basic historical sources.

However, Michael Palin writes in his diary 16 July 1976 that Warren Mitchell told him that ' silly moo " wasn't scripted, " It came out during a rehearsal when he forgot the line " Silly old mare ".

In contrast to the attitude expressed in these writings and to his Enlightenment background, he used insulting terms expressing prejudices against Poles in his private letters during his stay in Vilnius and in a diary from the journey through Poland, but he never published any manifestation of this attitude.

During his years in Kendal, Dalton contributed solutions of problems and questions on various subjects to the Gentlemen's and Ladies ' Diaries, and in 1787 he began to keep a meteorological diary in which, during the succeeding 57 years, he entered more than 200, 000 observations.

Numan's new album Dead Son Rising was released on 16 September 2011 which had a full U. K tour split in two halves, 15 – 21 September and 7 – 11 December, Both parts were supported by Welsh soloist Jayce Lewis in an interview during the tour ; Gary praised the Welshman to being the best supporting act ever in his 30 years of touring, later documenting the tour in a Tour diary and publicly inviting Jayce to join him for an American tour in 2012.

After the unfavourable reception that the opera received on opening night, Gilbert and Sullivan made numerous significant cuts and alterations :< ref > A copy of the libretto, including material cut before the first night and during the initial run, is at at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive .</ ref > Sullivan recorded in his diary:

In this diary he also wrote that: " I have during the last three weeks come to the conclusion that I should go in for insanity when I return to England and work as much as possible at psychology.

However the others set up a surgery to treat the native islanders and Rivers, lying in bed next-door tested the patients for colour vision: Haddon's diary noted " He is getting some interesting results .” The warmth shown to the sickly Rivers by the Islanders contributed to strong positive feelings for the work and a deep concern for the welfare of Melanesians during the remainder of his life .”

Tatiana was also fond of an officer named Vladimir Kiknadze, whom she cared for when he was wounded in 1915 and again in 1916, according to the diary of Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, a nurse who worked with Tatiana during the war.

Anders Tidström, a disciple of pioneering botanist and taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus, met the nine year old Dahl during his second journey through Västergötlan in 1760, and mentions in his travel diary both young Anders ' interest in botany, and his collection of plants ( received from his uncle Anders Silvius, a chemist in Skara ).

Her noted diary chronicled life in the South during the Civil War.

The Maggid Meisharim ( 1646 ; “ Preacher of Righteousness ”), another major work, a strange and mystical diary, is a kind of diary in which Karo during a period of fifty years recorded the nocturnal visits of an angelic being, his heavenly mentor, the personified Mishna ( the authoritative collection of Jewish Oral Law ).

In 1975 excerpts from Reith's diary were published which showed he had, during the 1930s, harboured pro-fascist views.

It was during the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ) that Mori started keeping a poetic diary.

26th, Mr. Edward Kelly cam to Trebona from Prage ”), and according to Dee ’ s diary it was during this time that Kelley is said to have performed his first alchemical transmutation ( on December 19, 1586 ).

The second part of the novel is narrated by Miranda in the form of fragments from a diary that she keeps during her captivity.

The admiral often wrote in his war diary, Nanjung Ilgi War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, about how concerned he was about the food supply during winters.

Yi kept a careful record of daily events in his diary, and it is from these entries, along with the reports he sent to the throne during the war, that much about him has been learned.

The movie was based on the personal diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who lived in a hiding place with her family during World War II.

Rommel noted in his diary during an inspection of one area that a division had placed over 300, 000 stakes in the ground to deter airborne landings, and a corps had erected over 900, 000.