Episode 31 Mythbusting: Will Tracking Your Food Give You an Eating Disorder?
Welcome to the Coaching Corner podcast! I'm Jayd Harrison (@Jaydigains), a personal trainer and wellness coach. I created this podcast to share helpful tips to help you make gains in your fitness journey 💪
In this episode, I discuss the common misconception that tracking food intake can lead to an eating disorder.
Tracking involves logging what you eat and drink every day either in a food journal or in an app like MyFitnessPal.
This strategy can help you identify your eating habits and become more self-aware. It can also help you to stick to your diet plan to ensure you're eating the right number of calories and macronutrients every day.
Some people find tracking to be a trigger for obsessive behaviors (i.e. eating disorders). As a tool, tracking can be used healthily or unhealthily, depending on your existing relationship with food and with your body.
In this episode, I give some tips for how to tackle a disordered relationship with food and alternative strategies that you can use if you find tracking to be triggering.
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