Do You Need to Track Your Food to Make Progress
December 14, 2021
The question is, Do you need to track and measure your food to make improvements?
Let me answer from the thoughts that James Smith has on this.
Smith puts it like this, tracking and measuring food is like using tracing paper, when you are trying to learn how to draw it is helpful to use the tracing paper. Once you learn though you don’t need the tracing paper anymore. With food, the tracing paper is represented by tracking, learning the macronutrient, calories, and the serving size of foods through weighing and measuring.
The knowledge gained from this tracking will then help you transfer these learnings over to how to eat, how much to eat when you are no longer weighing or measuring.
Measuring and tracking your food will help you develop an understanding of the calories you are consuming and the macronutrient content of foods. An important skill to develop for long-term success with your diet. And this is the tracing paper, it is helping you learn about food and how much you should be eating.
The argument is that if everyone were to track at some point then they would also learn, understand, and be making positive food choices when no longer tracking. Use the tracing paper to learn and understand, and then take it away once it has served its purpose.
I think everyone can benefit from tracking their food for a least 30 days at some point, the earlier the better…and once there is a basic knowledge of serving size and macro content of foods you’ll be at a place where tracking isn’t required but results are delivered from this gained knowledge and understand. Knowledge is knowing something, understanding is knowing how to implement. In this regard we have knowledge of foods, the tracking will bring understanding. Understanding the amounts to eat to supply energy and health to the body without gaining fat.
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Do You Need to Track Your Food to Make Progress
December 14, 2021
The question is, Do you need to track and measure your food to make improvements?
Let me answer from the thoughts that James Smith has on this.
Smith puts it like this, tracking and measuring food is like using tracing paper, when you are trying to learn how to draw it is helpful to use the tracing paper. Once you learn though you don’t need the tracing paper anymore. With food, the tracing paper is represented by tracking, learning the macronutrient, calories, and the serving size of foods through weighing and measuring.
The knowledge gained from this tracking will then help you transfer these learnings over to how to eat, how much to eat when you are no longer weighing or measuring.
Measuring and tracking your food will help you develop an understanding of the calories you are consuming and the macronutrient content of foods. An important skill to develop for long-term success with your diet. And this is the tracing paper, it is helping you learn about food and how much you should be eating.
The argument is that if everyone were to track at some point then they would also learn, understand, and be making positive food choices when no longer tracking. Use the tracing paper to learn and understand, and then take it away once it has served its purpose.
I think everyone can benefit from tracking their food for a least 30 days at some point, the earlier the better…and once there is a basic knowledge of serving size and macro content of foods you’ll be at a place where tracking isn’t required but results are delivered from this gained knowledge and understand. Knowledge is knowing something, understanding is knowing how to implement. In this regard we have knowledge of foods, the tracking will bring understanding. Understanding the amounts to eat to supply energy and health to the body without gaining fat.
