You hear it all the time...
Tracking macros, counting calories, food logging, and the benefits that come with knowing your day in food.
Whether you do it or you don’t, odds are that if you haven’t personally done it, someone in your circle has.
If you’re trying to lose weight, tracking what you eat is VITAL to your transformation, and here’s why 👇🏼
✖️You need your body to be in a constant state of calorie deficit. AKA eating a little less than your body burns in a day, so that it goes looking for that extra energy in your body’s fat storage.
Knowing what your daily intake is, is crucial, so you can make adjustments when you need to. Like adding in cardio and lowering calories a little.
The EASIEST way to find what you should be eating in a day is right here:
✖️Take 2 weeks, weigh in fasted, undressed and after going to the bathroom every morning. Track everything you eat each day, not aiming for any certain number. After that 2 week period, look back at weigh ins.
➖Did they go up? Then you’re probably in a surplus, and need to cut back to lose weight.
➖Did they go down? Then AWESOME, you’re already in a calorie deficit, keep doing what you’re doing!
➖Did nothing change? Then your daily intake is peak to maintain your body right where you are, but you can move it up or down to create your desired result.
To anyone who’s back there saying “...but I don’t have time to track everything I eat…”
Well do you have time to not see progress? Because the longer you’re trying to *guess* what would work for you, is the longer you’re choosing to spend not seeing results 🤷🏼♀️
Make 10-15 minutes each night when you lay down in bed, and plug in your food for the following day. In no time you’ll be able to do this on the fly, but until it becomes second nature for you, give yourself a minute to get the hang of it! 🤓
I didn’t start seeing results until I started tracking my food. I was eating pretty healthy, whole foods, but I was eating too much for what my body needed.
PSA: fruits and veggies have a caloric value too and you very well can gain weight just by eating “healthy” 🙃
Have you or do you track your food? Why or why not?
You hear it all the time...