We’ve launched a new feature here at The Daily Plate, and we think you’ll enjoy it. We’re calling it Food Diaries for short, and “Food, Diet, and Fitness Diaries” for long!

Basically, when you’re on your MyPlate page, there’s a new link there to write in your diary. You can type in some notes about how you’re feeling, about how the food you’ve eaten has affected you today, your weight loss goals / progress, etc.

Your diary can be just for you — or, if you’d like, you can make your diary public for everyone with just one checkbox. That way, you can share with friends and family your progress, what specific foods you’ve eaten, and more!

This is just the first step in our plan to allow you to share your MyPlate progress and your total experience here at TheDailyPlate.com with your friends and loved ones. We expect to roll out enhancements and new, cool features in the weeks and months ahead that will allow you to connect and share in even more ways.

For now, explore the diaries a bit, and of course — let us know what you think!

Oh, and for the geeks out there, if you make your food diary public, you can also subscribe to it as an RSS feed or add it to Google as a gadget — just use either http://www.thedailyplate.com/diary/rss/username/ or http://wwww.thedailyplate.com/diary/gadget/username to get started!