You are more than just a tracking app!

What's your thoughts around tracking calories and macros?

Here are a few factors my fitness pal doesn’t consider when you are wanting to become successful with fat loss with nutrition.

✅Changes in metabolism through adaptive thermogenesis slowing the process of how you burn calories.

✅The type of foods you eat which have a higher number of calories used to burn through the thermic effect of food (TEF) Protein being the highest.

✅Changes in leptin and ghrelin (reducing or increasing hunger signals.)

✅Body composition

✅Your stress levels

✅Your diet history and relationship with food

✅Plus, be aware, we all lie too!

The number of calories consumed is difficult to scale.

For me the number of calories consumed is so difficult to scale exactly where you are but there are definitely ways to improve accuracy.

But, be aware, we all lie too!😳

We underreport and study’s show this :

Do you know that women are more likely to under-report on an average of 900 kcal a day! ⠀
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Men 500 kcal! ⠀⠀
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Even dietitians at 223 calories per day! ⠀

For me I love everything about a tracking app

Accountability and awareness is great!

But I know that we are more than just an app to reach our goal.

I know it's never always going to be completely correct or there for me all the time.

From BBQ with family and friends to going out for meals.

Remember an app is always a range and this is never the most accurate measurement.

The most accurate measurement of them all is you!

For clients I work with I want to speak to them regularly on how they are feeling and progressing as this plays more of an important role my coaching program needs to be changed or not.

I monitor their recovery, sleep, energy, cravings, stress, because how they feel plays a bigger role! 👊Do you focus your attention on an app more than yourself?

Please remember you are not programmed to work a certain way.

Setting a target which creates anxiety if you haven’t tracked or hit the number is not healthy!

Hitting daily steps calorie targets.

How many calories did you burn in each exercise session?

We are not living a healthy happy life and it just adds more pressure to you.

Your body is the most accurate measurement of them all!

People rely far too much on technology.

Everyone has an app to help them reach a goal but why isn’t everyone hitting a result?

Stop with my fitness pal streaks and being controlled by a number.

Your body is not the same as somebody else’s!

Don’t let someone program you as you more than just an app.

Now I have gone off on a bit of rant here I do feel i’m giving tracking your foods a hard time but this is only because it has been promoted as a tool to help but not something which resolves a problem.

Its a great accountability tool and help you understand what foods you are consuming but please remember you are more than this to reach your goal.

Concentrate on your body and how its reacting.

You haven’t failed at all if you haven’t hit the number

You shouldn’t feel like you are off plan or being bad for coming away from tracking.

You failed on living the life you deserve.
Please don’t let an app or a number define you!

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Dan