Food Tracking: The Good, The Bad, and the Insane
Tracking what you eat: is it the secret key to achieving a healthy body weight, optimal nutrition, and superhuman goal-crushing awesomeness? Or it a one-way ticket to crazytown?
For me, I think it's possible that both are true.
And yep, for those of you who have followed the blog for a while, this may sound familiar. I generally prefer an "intuitive" eating style but every now and then I go on a food and exercise tracking rampage. Remember my tedious Tips for Counting Calories and my advice about keeping a food or exercise journal or my brief love affair with Jilllian Michaels...er, I mean the BodyMedia Fit armband?
I actually suffer from a psychological malady, though oddly enough not one recognized by the textbooks: intermittent Fitness Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Is anyone else severely FOC'D too?
Crabby's Sad Case History
I eat a 90% healthy diet, but I do love my treats. And I suck at portion control. Being "too full for another bite" is a foreign concept to me.
More, Please.
I generally cope with my greediness by trying to choose the sorts of high-volume, relatively low calorie foods that allow me to eat gigantic portions all day long. Veggie/egg white scrambles, huge salads, healthy smoothies, grilled veggies, lots of salmon and chicken and grass-fed meat and whey powder and other protein sources, whole grains and legumes, and a parade of weird looking stirfries and casseroles and soups.
I try to only use "good fats," an...
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