Thanks for signing up for the free 7 day calorie tracking challenge! Check your email for the guidelines.
The rules
Please read these carefully, because the power of this challenge is in following them exactly.
- Weigh yourself the morning of the first day and the morning of day 8! If you choose to weigh daily, you have to commit to having ZERO opinions on the scale noise. No matter what you are eating or drinking, day to day fluctuations are totally normal and doesn’t give you useful information. For best results though, just weigh yourself on day 1 and day 8
- Weigh and measure everything that passes your lips for the full 7 consecutive days. No eyeballing. No guesstimating. No assuming. Our modern food environment is super tricky! We might think we’re eating one amount, when it can be wildly different. You have to use a scale and measuring cups here.
- Choose a tracking app and Log everything you eat and drink for 7 full days
Meals, snacks, bites, tastes, cooking samples, drinks, all of it. Nothing is too small to log. Don’t let anything be forgotten. Log it immediately before or after eating it. Partial data is not useful. Partial days are not useful.- Log every single lifesaver, squirt of mustard, gummy vitamins, and more.
- You also must track any binges *I know it’s tempting to not track these and ‘start over tomorrow’, but these periods of overeating are so helpful to see the data! Tell yourself you can keep eating the box of cereal, as long as you log it! It wasn’t until I tracked my binges that I actually stopped having them.
- Track the secret food you’re eating in the pantry. Even when your family doesn’t see you eat it, your body did! LOL
- Download or screenshot the entire days meals each night and save to a folder.
This step is vital to getting averages of your calories over the week, and also to be able to see patterns in your food. - If you miss a day, start over
Not because you failed, but because incomplete data leads to false conclusions. Skipping days will not give us the insights we need to move forward. The science experiment of your body requires consecutive days!
The Results
If you track the full 7 days, send me screenshots or files downloads and I’ll reply with recommendations for your calorie targets!
RESOURCES
Things that will help you get through the week if you don’t already own these: