Why it is Important to Weigh & Track Your Food

If you remember back to one of the very first courses of this programme, I talk about the importance of learning about food, and not just following a diet.

Creating a calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight.

Accurately tracking your calorie intake is one of the best ways to guarantee you create a calorie deficit, and weighing your food is the best way to guarantee that you are tracking accurately.

So it is important because it will help you get the results that you want!

However the most important aspect of both weighing your food, and tracking your calories accurately is the education it provides.

You will learn what a correct portion size should look like for yourself. You develop an understanding about foods calorie and nutrient contents.

You learn how to make your favourite meals for fewer calories.

You start to recognise that foods don’t fit on a scale of good to bad.

This will help you improve your relationship with certain foods!

When you lose weight whilst including these foods, you start to breakdown and remove those negative beliefs that you had – that they make you fat or you shouldn’t be eating them!

In doing so you start to be able to enjoy these things without guilt again.

When you realise that certain foods were never to blame and you only ever gain weight because of consuming too many calories,

You become more aware of your own eating habits, you notice the foods you tend to over consume, you notice when you over consume them.

And when you are aware, you can make better decisions in the future.

Decisions based on fact and logic, not based on myths or misinformation from diets about what food makes you fat!

All of these things and more, are reasons why following this programme can be so valuable.

Because not only will it help you get the results you want, but also it will help you create a lifestyle in the future that maintains them, and one that doesn’t involve cutting out your favourite foods or feeling guilty for eating them.