The Real World Benefits of Not Tracking Your Calories

[@marpsr]

At a certain point the training wheels need to come off.

[@ludmilhadjisotirov1553]

Great video. A lot of truth to all of these.

[@rbang83]

Personally I've found tracking my weight gives me the best of both worlds. If i see the scale moving too fast in either direction I just make a conscious choice to eat more/less based on feel but it took a lot of tracking to get to this point lol

[@danielbrown001]

You talk about how much “freedom” not tracking grants you, but I feel like you failed to mention the freedom that you potentially LOSE by not tracking. When tracking, you have the freedom of knowing: “No matter how I subjectively feel on any given day, I know I am making progress towards my goal since I’m hitting my numbers.” That is a freeing thought. We all know that scale weight fluctuations can screw with people’s heads (even advanced athletes). But if you know you are nailing your tracking, you can see a fluctuation and brush it off, knowing you’re on track. But if you’re NOT tracking and the scale makes a jump in the wrong direction, it’s very easy to start second-guessing yourself and wondering, “Am I actually on track right now?” We all know that every food has a different affect on satiety. So if you’re just “eating following your body’s hunger/satiety cues,” that isn’t a guarantee you are maintaining/losing/gaining weight at the rate you want to for your goals. Most people eat a mix of unprocessed, lightly processed, and highly processed foods in their diet so how hungry or full should you be for your goal? Say you are trying to lean down a bit, for example, and you want to eat a meal that has some more highly processed food in it. You know that if you eat to satiety, that will likely result in overeating, so you should come out of that meal hungry if you want to stay on track towards your goal. Just how hungry should you be? Is it really so “freeing” not having to take 10 seconds to punch that meal in if you’re going to spend the next 30 mins while eating wondering, “Am I hungry enough after that last bite? Should I have another? Maybe I’ve overdone it…” etc.? I can see this working for people who are very, very advanced and know their bodies extremely well after years of tracking AND aren’t currently pursuing any specific goals and just looking to roughly maintain. But for beginners and intermediates or advanced athletes who are serious about getting results, I personally think it’s MORE freeing to track and have total peace-of-mind that each meal eaten is moving you closer to your goal. Rather than not track to save 10 seconds of time punching a meal in and then wondering all the time, “Was that the right choice?” and never really knowing.

[@RealziesCuts]

The only thing I track is clean underwear so I know when to do laundry 💫🥊

[@Trynabethicc]

ma man

[@Team3DMJ]

if there's one thing to always track...this is it

[@peteclarke]

If I don't track calories in my head I will be 270lbs regardless of activity level. I can eat. Like...a lot🤣

[@steve13061986]

I feel like this is a reupload... i swear ive watched this before...

[@Team3DMJ]

nope. we've shared a clip of steve talking in a different chapter from this course as a youtube short. But never shared this vid on youtube before...Might just be a familiar face, fit, and camera set up 🙂

[@TheTrueAdonis1]

Cool Story Bros, but when dieting to single digits, you will want to eat as much as possible while reaching your goal and is something you can't wing if you want to eat Max Calories during this phase. Otherwise, without tracking, you will unnecessarily starve to reach this state as it will just be a guessing game. I would rather eat as much as possible during cutting to single digits rather than playing a guessing game and most likely eating way under what I could be eating had I just tracked. With that said, OffSeason, it works, or if just trying to stay "beach Lean" I do take that approach.

[@Bols85]

Did you even watch the video?

[@TheTrueAdonis1]

Also consider, the MAJORITY of people in the gym (and not in the gym) DO NOT track anything and look like shit. So there is that.....