How to Track What You Eat Without Becoming Weird About It
Use tracking as a measurement season: learn your real intake, protect protein, portion starch and fat, then keep only the structure you can live with.
Food tracking is not morality. It is measurement. I use it to turn a guess into data, learn what a person actually eats, and build a Meals plan around reality instead of memory. The useful version is not obsessive, punitive, or permanent for everyone. It is a short audit, a calibration period, and then the least amount of structure that keeps the result moving.
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