“Ugh, I Don’t Want to Track my Food!”
Yeah, we hear you.
There’s a lot of things we don’t want to do either, however we still do them:)
Studies repeatedly show that those who track their food lose nearly twice as much weight as those who don’t.
If you’re serious about wanting to change your body, keeping track of everything you eat is very important, for a variety of reasons:
To help you get closer to your body composition goals. Tracking your food intake can help you to see how many calories you are consuming and where those calories are coming from. This information can help you to make changes to your diet in order to reach your body composition goals.
To improve your overall health. Tracking your food intake can help you to identify any nutrient deficiencies or imbalances in your diet. This information can help you to make changes to your diet in order to improve your overall health.
To manage a chronic condition. If you have a chronic condition such as diabetes or heart disease, tracking your food intake can help you to manage your condition by ensuring that you are eating the right foods and getting the nutrients you need.
To learn more about your eating habits. Tracking your food intake can help you to learn more about your eating habits, such as what foods you eat most often, when you eat, and how much you eat. This information can help you to make changes to your diet in order to improve your health and well-being.
To ensure you’re in a calorie deficit. To lose weight, you must be consuming less calories than your body needs - meaning, you need to be in a calorie deficit.
To increase your knowledge on the nutritional value of food. Tracking your food intake can help you to learn more about the calorie and macronutrient content of foods. As you likely know, to lose fat, you need to be in a calorie deficit. If you’re looking to stay where you’re at, eating in a calorie maintenance is where you want to be, and if you’re looking to build muscle, you should be eating in a calorie surplus.
If you’re not tracking your food, it may be challenging (yet, not impossible) to reach your fat loss goals.
If you are interested in tracking your food intake, there are many different tools and resources available to help you. You can use a food journal, a food tracking app, or even just a piece of paper and pen. The most important thing is to find a method that works for you and to be consistent with your tracking.
Here are some tips for tracking your food intake:
Start by tracking for a few days or a week to get a baseline of your eating habits.
Be as accurate as possible when tracking your food intake.
Don't be afraid to make changes to your diet as you learn more about your eating habits.
Make tracking your food intake a part of your routine.
Tracking your food intake is a helpful tool for improving your health and well-being. This is the first thing we work with our clients on, and time after time again, their results show how effective it is in combination with movement, hydration, prioritizing protein and incorporating strength training.