Tracking food is something I’ve struggled with a lot after coming from an intuitive eating background. There have been times where I’ve needed to for comp prep which did give me a greater understanding of food and my daily choices, but I don’t enjoy the rigidness of it. I want to just sit down and eat instead of entering it all into My Fitness Pal!
What really makes me slip up though is when my partner cooks for me. He will bring in his beautiful bowl of goodness and I have NO IDEA exactly how much of each ingredient went into the pan and dividing it between approximate portions etc. So I often find it easy to stay on track for breakfasts, lunches and snacks – but as dinner has more ingredients I often forget to log it..
I prefer tuning into my body in regards to what and how much I want to eat and allowing for flexibility. But there are times tracking food can be handy if you want to make serious changes to your physique instead of staying in the same spot and ensuring you’re optimising your performance.
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1.Looking into whether your goals are just for general life, or to have an intense physique transformation 👙
2. Instead of thinking of it as restriction, view it in a positive light such as meeting a minimum calorie target and hitting protein goal 🥙
3. During prep I put my cals and macros into an excel spreadsheet at the end of the week and I liked seeing it light up like a traffic light if I hit my goals or was close to it, so I could be more intentional with meals or make swaps and adjustments throughout the day 🚦
4. Breaking down barriers to tracking (finding easy to log recipes, saving recipes you cook often, meals that have simple components, setting alarms on your phone to remind yourself before you forget what you had, a lot of people like to prep meals ahead of time so their calories and macros are already bang on before they even start the day) 🥞
5. After years of tracking food, many bikini girls say they can simply eye up their meals and calculate it in their head, giving an estimate of what’s on their plate so they no longer need to track or calculate religiously anymore ⚖️
6. Aiming for weekly targets instead of daily, which allows for some flexibility and fluctuation as long as it adds up correctly at the end 🗓️
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