Top 3 Ways To Successfully Track Your Food In Your App

1️⃣Scan the barcode. If you look at a bag of chips it will say the serving size at the top and then a weight in grams and/or ounces. Scan the barcode of the item into your app. Then turn on your food scale, place a bowl onto it, “tare” or “zero” it out, then pour the chips into the bowl until it reaches the gram amount as shown on the serving size. That’s your serving!
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2️⃣If it doesn’t have a barcode, is there something similar you can look up in MFP? If you have an egg & bacon breakfast sandwich from a local shop you could either enter in the ingredients individually OR use a breakfast sandwich from a chain like Starbucks if it has similar ingredients.
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3️⃣If it doesn’t have a barcode because it’s fresh produce such as broccoli that you’re about to cook, I recommend simply typing it into the search bar and then weighing out either 50, 100 or 150 grams to make it simple. Then WEIGH out that amount on your scale-that’s your serving size.
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👉🏻This is THE most common mistake I see when clients start with me.
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🤔Is it time consuming the first few weeks?
Absolutely!
💥Y’all know I tell it to ya straight.
But just like riding a bike or learning a new job: it gets easier!
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I know, taking the time to weigh out your food seems annoying but it is the ONLY way to get to understand what macros are in what foods
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& this leads to holding ourselves ACCOUNTABLE & being able to successfully lose weight 🙌🏻
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👀If you’re talking the time to enter things into your app to “track” already, they might as well be accurate, right?
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🗣Lemme know any questions 👯‍♀️AND tag a friend who could benefit from this!
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https://www.coachedbycait.com/
Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist
Fat loss and Macro coach
RN/BSN