The Essentials Coaching Program

How To Track Your Food And Drink

No matter your goal, fat loss, improved performance, or building muscle and strength, 60–70% of your results come down to nutrition. Training provides the stimulus, but food is the catalyst that determines how your body responds.

At this stage, the focus is awareness rather than perfection. Tracking your food and drink allows me to see what your current intake looks like so I can guide you more effectively and make informed adjustments as the programme progresses.

Why Tracking Matters

  • Builds awareness around portion sizes and food choices

  • Highlights patterns that may be helping or hindering progress

  • Allows nutrition advice to be personalised rather than guessed

  • Supports consistency without unnecessary restriction

How This Fits Into the Programme

  • Initially, tracking is used to understand your habits

  • As adherence improves, you may be given a calorie or protein target

  • If you use MyFitnessPal, it can be linked directly to the app (just let me know)

The video below walks you through how to track your food and drink step by step. Although the app has had some visual updates since this was filmed, the fundamentals remain the same.

Please watch this even if you are using a different app as the principles covered will still apply.

The aim isn’t to track forever or overcomplicate nutrition, but to build understanding, develop better habits and make smarter choices easier over time.

Here is a short video that goes into a bit more detail:

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