Tired Of Tracking Your Food? Try This Instead Written by Kim McLaughin
Tracking your macros, or calorie counting, is a widely used method for nutrition accountability and guidelines. Apps and trackers might make life a bit easier, but tracking burnout is real.
If tracking your food causes you a major headache, or if you’ve been doing it for a long time and you find it’s causing you more anxiety than less anxiety: you might need a tracking break.
Here are the guidelines you need to know to eat healthy (in order of importance):
If you follow these guidelines, and eat until you’re at a 7 out of 10 on a fullness scale, you shouldn’t skip a beat with your nutrition. Taking a break from tracking doesn’t mean you can have a free for all but it does mean that you can take the pressure off of yourself for a bit and rely on healthy habits instead. Macro apps will always be there and you can do an occasional day or week check-in in the future but NOT counting can sometimes make food fun again.