Tracking while traveling or eating out

If you were able to feel better on vacation, wouldn’t you want to? Maybe you don’t have regular bowel movements while traveling or eating out a lot. What if you could change that? If you had an easy way to check how much protein you were getting in a day, wouldn’t you do it?

That’s what tracking your intakes can do for you. It doesn’t have to be about restriction. It doesn’t even have to be about being perfect. But like I already said, food tracking apps are just nutrition labels in your hands. They are designed to offer convenience, not create poor relationships with food.

Next time you are eating out at a restaurant, look up the menu ahead of time and choose what you’d like to have. In your app, search for specific restaurants and menu items. If those entries do not exist, simply enter each meal item one by one and estimate the best you can based on online menu pictures if they are available. For example: “6 piece California sushi roll” or “3 roasted carrots, 6oz filet, 1 tbsp oil for cooking, 1 dinner roll, 1 tbsp butter.”

Once your restaurant order is tracked in your app, you will now be able to see what macros you have left for your other meals and snacks that day. When you get to the resturant, all you have to do is order without even looking at your phone because you’ve already tracked and planned ahead.