Common Food Tracking Pitfalls

You’d think food tracking would be the easiest thing in the world.

How could you even mess it up???

• Measure the food

• Log the food

• Done

Surprisingly there’s two ways you can mess up here.

It’s way more common than you’d think.

I’ve helped guys who’ve been doing this for 5+ years spot these mistakes.

Now this isn’t going to be something dumb like (don’t eyeball when logging food) it’s genuine.

1. You’re either doing everything perfect.

2. Or you’re messing up the measuring food

3. Or you’re messing up the logging of food

Keep reading because this is only something you realise you’re doing wrong when you know what to look out for.

Messing up with measuring food is ONLY a problem for people who measure based on volume.

Imagine I want to measure a cup of rice.

I can probably squash way more rice into the cup and log it as one cup…

Yeah that’s not going to work.

If you’re going to measure volume, let it be with powders or things that can’t be compressed.

Otherwise use the weighing scale.

Now here’s the other issue people make way too often.

Imagine I’ve got a huge chicken breast I’m about to cook.

I throw it on the scale and log 170g in my tracking app.

• I’ve logged this as cooked breast.

99% of the time if you cook something, it’ll lose/gain weight.

Make sure you’re checking whether or not you’re logging cooked, or raw weight. It’ll completely change how many calories/protein you think you’re getting each day.

So that’s pretty much it.

If you can think of any additional issues people might make when tracking their calories, reply to this email and let me know.

Your Hypertrophy Hero,
Fletcher