Tracking Your Mood

Your mood and emotions help give an understanding of your emotional state. How you’re feeling can be influenced by many things, even lifestyle factors like the food that we eat!  

Why track your mood? 

Tracking your mood each day can be helpful in identifying patterns and how these influences other aspects of your life such as your food choices and energy levels. Research has found that low mood and stress can impact our food choices, and in turn, our food choices can also impact our mood.  

Tracking your mood along with your Sophus food diary and energy levels can be helpful in identifying whether your diet is influencing your moods, energy and emotions.  

View your trends

Tracking your mood and feelings each day can be helpful in identifying patterns and how these influences other aspects of your life such as your food choices. Research has found that low mood and stress can impact our food choices, and in turn, our food choices can also impact our mood.

Tracking your mood along with your Sophus food diary can be helpful in identifying whether your diet is influencing your moods and emotions.

Tips for tracking your mood

• Aim to log your mood once per day. This will help you see how your mood interacts with your energy levels and food diary

• There’s no right way to log your mood! Log it in the morning when you wake up, as you feel your mood change throughout the day, or as a reflection of your day before you go to sleep

• If there’s context to your mood, include them in the notes! For example, if you’re feeling particularly stressed but you know this is due to a project at work, make those notes so you can understand the full context when you look back on it later.

Noticing a pattern?

If you notice that you log feeling stressed, sad, anxious, or angry often, you may want to explore these feelings with your doctor.