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2976: Why Tracking Your Food and Body Fat Is Ruining Your Progress

2976: Why Tracking Your Food and Body Fat Is Ruining Your Progress3 days ago2 h 08 min

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You track your weight every morning, log every macro, and get your body fat tested whenever you can. So why do you still feel like you're spinning your wheels? In this episode of Mind Pump Show, Sal, Adam, and Justin make the case that for a lot of people, obsessive tracking isn't helping. It's actively wrecking your relationship with food, your body, and the whole damn process.

The guys break down exactly why the scale, body fat percentage, macro tracking, and circumference measurements can all send you spiraling, and what the actual research says you SHOULD be measuring instead.

Then the hosts shift to live coaching, taking calls from three real listeners: a 65-year-old lifelong athlete trying not to regress, a nearly-50-year-old guy wondering how to keep progressing without blowing up his joints, and a 36-year-old chemistry teacher who got a serious lower back wake-up call mid-deadlift. Real situations, real advice, zero fluff. Plus the guys go deep on NAD supplements, why liposomal delivery is the only oral form worth your money, Eight Sleep's autopilot study on temperature and deep sleep, and yes, Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster somehow makes an appearance too.

If you've ever let a number on a scale ruin a day where everything else was going right, this episode is for you. Hit play and find out what you should actually be tracking, and what you should probably just stop.