I don't track my food.
I realize that could be shocking since I recommend tracking your food so often- but hear me out.
Consistency is greater than effort.
Tracking can be tough!
And the effort required is very hard to keep up.
If it doesn't become a habit that we do automatically, then we have to go out of our way to remember to do it, and when stuff comes up...
Well you probably know what happens because it happens to all of us!
We drop the ball, we lose our momentum, and it feels like all of that effort was wasted...
But it wasn't!
It was practice.
It was educational.
Talking specifically about tracking our food- the information you get from a handful of weeks might be all you need!
My boss tracks religiously.
I do not.
One day he was asking what my calories and macros look like and I said, "I don't know the exact numbers... but I'm where I'm supposed to be."
Here's something useful to know about me.
I'm competitive and I like proving that I'm right when someone thinks I'm wrong.
So I tracked the next day and was actually shocked at how on the money I was.
If there was a letter grade associated with my accuracy- I thought I'd have about a B.
But I was pretty much right at A+!
Now this wasn't because I have a sixth sense about calories / macros in food.
Even though I don't track now- I did track for quite sometime.
I learned what I needed to about the food I typically ate.
I saw what meals got me in terms of calories and macros.
And then I just kept eating those things!
The consistency to eat what I knew worked was easier for me than the effort of tracking everything.
Consistency > Effort
Now why do I tell you this?
2 reasons...
1) To tell you that tracking isn't a forever game. It's an info gathering game.
2) That big effortful changes, the overhauls we try to do, aren't the way to get results.
I don't want to discourage effort.
If you've got it- please go ahead and give it!!
But if you're using it on something else and don't necessarily have a lot to spare on fitness / nutrition changes...
That's okay.
The effort we have will Wax and Wane over time.
Focus on consistency with small changes over time.
And that brings me to today's tactic...
