Hate Tracking Your Food? What You Need to Know About Tracking Your Food and Weight Loss | From Restriction to Empowerment: The Mindful Approach to Tracking Food

Just sit with question for a bit... is the only time you have ever tracked your food intake, with a journal or MyFitnessPal (or any other app), is when you wanted to drastically restrict your calories?

What if you saw it from a different angle? 

In this episode of the Living in Sync podcast, host Joelle, a certified nutritionist, discusses the topic of tracking food and how it can be used as a tool for mindful eating and achieving health goals. She emphasizes that tracking food is not about being restrictive or judgmental towards oneself, but rather about gathering information and using it to make informed decisions about one's diet.

Joelle suggests various methods for tracking food, such as an evening reflection or planning meals for the upcoming day. She also explains how tracking food can be used to maximize the benefits of the menstrual cycle.

Overall, Joelle's message is about using tracking food in a mindful and sustainable way to achieve harmony with oneself and one's eating habits.

This episode talks about

- does tracking your food help you lose weight?

- being a scientist of the information

- you don't have to track calories or macros forever 

- how to start tracking what you are eating

Referenced Resources: 

Feminine Edge Collective

Amber on Biceps After Babies 

Macro Friendly Foods 

[Time Stamp of Episode Content]

*Benefits of tracking food [00:02:22]*
Joelle discusses the benefits of tracking food, citing a Harvard study that showed people who kept food records lost twice as much weight as those who did not.

*Avoiding extreme tracking [00:04:35]*
Joelle advises against using tracking solely as a restriction method and suggests using it to gain insight and information about one's eating habits.

*Establishing a Habit [00:11:16]*
Joelle suggests starting with an evening or morning reflection to establish the habit of tracking food intake and energy levels.

*Reflecting on Your Nutrition [00:13:03]*
Joelle encourages reflecting on what you ate and how you felt throughout the day to gain insight into your eating habits and energy levels.

*Tracking for Information [00:18:26]*
Joelle suggests tracking food intake solely for information and not to be extreme, as it can provide insight into proper nourishment and daily energy expenditure.

*Tracking Food and the Menstrual Cycle [00:19:44]*
Joelle discusses how tracking food can be used as a tool for mindful eating and achieving health goals, especially when considering the biological blueprint of the menstrual cycle.