In this video you’ll learn all about Meal Tracker and how it will help keep you accountable and accelerate your weight loss results.

Hey ladies, Laura Sales here, and in today’s video we’re going to be talking about Meal Tracker. So what is Meal Tracker and why is it important? So let’s start with that. The first thing to know is that this is just one of the most important things that you can do in order to keep yourself accountable and to accelerate your weight loss results. Just plain and simple. And this is something that I dreaded doing for a long time. I was totally against it. I’m just not one of these type of people that likes to get nitty gritty down into details and I just would never log my food. I was totally against it. I hated it. But then I came across a research study, And in my research when I was looking at like, how can I create this program to be better, faster, easier, more efficient, more effective, and how can I really help women establish life long healthy habits that are going to actually, not just allow them to lose the weight but to keep it off.

And I came across a research study that proved that people who log their daily food intake lose twice the amount of weight of those who don’t. Okay. So this was a very, very, very big large weight loss study. It was done over many, many years and I’ll actually post a link to the study so you can see it down below. But I decided let’s just keep it super simple and let’s do a very simple way of logging. Because here’s the thing, in this research study, this was not something, this was not a complex app that these people were using. This was not some major long food diary. Literally all these people had to do was write it down, even if they just wrote it down on a post it note, right? So as soon as you eat and you’re like, okay, you write it down.

So it’s just the simple act of writing it down. It keeps you in this mindset of knowing that you need to be more mindful about what you are consuming. And when I started doing this, it completely changed my life. It completely eliminated those habits that I had of mindlessly munching on food throughout the day. Even when I wasn’t hungry, I would constantly snack if there was food in front of me, even if it was healthy food. I’m not talking about binge eating on bad foods because I’ve overcome all of that. But I still had this problem with overeating healthy foods. So if there was nuts around or if there was veggies and dip or if there was some sort of approved dessert, whatever it was, I would eat it regardless if I was hungry or not because I just assumed, oh, this is healthy food, I can consume this.

Well, when I started doing the research around your body to dipping into your stored fat and using it as energy and if you want to get super like, just burn off fat and have it melting off of your body 24/7 I started doing research about intermittent fasting. And the first thing that you need to do when you start embarking in intermittent fasting is you eliminate all snacking. So you still eat three meals per day. You’re not starving yourself. You’re not fasting on days on end, but you’re eliminating those snacking habits that a lot of people are just doing out of sheer boredom or sheer habit. So logging meals and logging and starting to take responsibility for what I was actually putting into my body really completely changed my habits and it really allowed me to overcome something that was a big barrier for me in reaching my goal.

So this is something where it’s like when you start tracking what you’re doing, there’s just something about the universe that when you put your attention on something and you start tracking it and you’re confronting it, you are able to control it. You’re able to handle it and you’re able to get better results with it. So I want to keep it super simple. I don’t want this to be complex or take up a lot of time of your day by tracking. But that’s why I created this very simple form that’s just got four meals. So that would be if you had three meals and one snack, of course you just want to aim for the three meals. But if you do have a snack, you’ll put it in here and there is a section for calories, carbs, fat and protein, but you do not need to get that granular.

This is only if you want to. This is only if you want to dive into the specifics of what you’re doing. You can obviously use the apps that are on the phone. I actually like one called Chronometer and I’ll put a link to Chronometer down below. Chronometer is really, really good for tracking because it’s got a database already of all of the different foods, so anything that you would be eating, you could just enter in. They’re automatically going to calculate all of those calories and fats and carbs and protein for you. So then you can see if you’re on track towards your daily goals.

So whether you use the printable Meal Tracker, which you’ll find below this video, you can simply print this out and put it on your fridge. And every time you eat you just log it really quickly. It’s like I had a salad. You know, like this doesn’t have to be anything complex or hard. I just want you to get in the habit of starting to write down what you eat because I promise you, when you start keeping yourself accountable as to what you’re putting in your body, you’re going to eat a lot less. You’re going to eat a lot more on the plan because you’re not going to cheat because you don’t want to write it down. There’s a lot of mindset behind this. So those of you who are struggling with the mindset and the sticking to it and discipline things, you have to implement this because this is going to be a game changer for you, to be able to reach your weight loss goal. So hopefully that was helpful to you to start logging your meals. Again, just keep it super simple. You can either use an APP to do it. There’s many apps that you can use online or you can print out the document that I have created for you below this video. Okay? I’ll see you in the next video.