Tracking food intake:
Tracking your food intake, in my opinion is the best habit/skill to have when your goal is trying to optimising body composition.
Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't take that long, applications like “myfitnesspal” make it even easier and considering most people eat similar foods every day, once you have weighed and measured it once, you’re done.
(side point: Don't follow my fitnesspal's generic daily target figures, but use the app to track your food intake). I have a PDF on my site which teachers you how to set daily calorie and macro nutrient targets, simply plug these numbers into myfitnesspal.
The main point I will make here, the biggest benefit to tracking food intake is the realisation of how calorically dense certain foods are (you’re not just winging it any more, you know the numbers). It creates awareness. That in turn allows you to make decisions through the day based on this knowledge.
If you so happen to fall off your usual diet, you know what protein, carbohydrate, fat and calorie targets you have left in the day to compensate.
If you know you’re going to dinner one evening and the foods typically are high carbohydrate/high fat, why not consume foods the rest of the day in accordance to meeting your daily allowance.
Perhaps pulling back on the carbohydrates and fats at the start of the day?
This skill is the key in my opinion. You can make changes to these numbers to suit how you want to look at any time of the year e.g. bulking and cutting periods.
It appear obsessive from the onset, it’s not, it’s just a habit, it’s easy once you get the hang of it.
www.jameslaytonfitness.co.uk
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