Ep. 663 - Does Tracking Macros Cause Disordered Eating?
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Cody dives into "disordered eating" in today's episode. This is a form of dietary behavior that can be unhealthy and destructive, but is also far different and much more easily reversible than an "eating disorder".
Cody defines both and shows you the specific differences in the two, as well as signs and symptoms of them in order for you to better identify when they may be arising in you or others around you.
He then dives into specific research looking at tracking food in apps, like myfitnesspal, and measuring progress through means such as body checking in a mirror, weighing in on the scale regularly, and other forms of dietary restraint. This leads into what studies show as correlations vs. actual causations, what those two different things actually mean, AND why tracking macros has actually never been shown to be directly associated with disordered eating - but rather how it can be the personality types, goals, and extreme processes of getting super-lean that cause these disordered eating patterns.
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- MASS Research Review Shoutout
- Defining Eating Disorders vs. Disordered Eating
- Reviewing The Research on Disordered Eating
- Introducing Dietary Self-Monitoring to Undergraduate Women via a Calorie Counting App Has No Effect on Mental Health or Health Behaviors: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Calorie counting and fitness tracking technology: Associations with eating disorder symptomatology
- Towards a Sustainable Nutrition Paradigm in Physique Sport: A Narrative Review
- Self-monitoring has no adverse effect on disordered eating in adults seeking treatment for obesity
- Body checking in non-clinical women: Experimental evidence of a specific impact on fear of uncontrollable weight gain
- Daily self-weighing and adverse psychological outcomes: a randomized controlled trial
- Weight-loss maintenance for 10 years in the National Weight Control Registry
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the tailored life podcast, the one and only fitness and nutrition podcast that goes way beyond just training and nutrition. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm your host, Cody McBroom, and today we are going to go way beyond just training and nutrition. |
| 0:19.1 | But we are going to stay in the realms of nutrition. |
| 0:21.9 | We're just going to tap into some mindset conversation today. |
| 0:24.9 | It is a solo show, and we are going to be pulling up some research. |
| 0:28.0 | So we have a specific topic that we are going to try and tackle today. |
| 0:31.2 | And that topic is whether or not tracking your food, measuring and weighing and calculating calories and macros and all this |
| 0:39.5 | kind of, if it fits your macro stuff, or just tracking in general. We're just going to consider |
| 0:45.4 | this quote unquote diet tracking. I'm going to say tracking quite a bit. I'm going to say tracking |
| 0:49.5 | calories. I'm going to say tracking macros. I'm going to say measuring food. They're all interchangeable. |
| 0:53.8 | The whole goal here is to cover one specific topic, which has been a question that has been |
| 0:58.5 | really a burning question for a long time. It's been debated between a lot of people. And I've always |
| 1:04.9 | kind of felt a little sour towards the conversation because I think it's very biased in one |
| 1:09.6 | direction or the other when people are debating it. And I think it's very biased in one direction or the other when people |
| 1:11.1 | are debating it and I think it's so highly individual that it really can't be argued. There's no |
| 1:15.8 | black and white answer to this. However, there has been more and more research and another |
| 1:22.0 | recent paper was released on it and Eric Trexler from Stronger by Science reviewed this in mass research review, |
| 1:29.7 | and that's where I first discovered this study, went through his review, dug through the study, |
| 1:34.5 | and kind of just kept digging into this research in general. And I actually have, let's see here, |
| 1:39.7 | I got a really, really good review article. And then one, two, three, four, five, six, seven different |
| 1:46.8 | research papers that cover this topic that I will link in the description of the podcast. |
| 1:51.9 | I will not link the mass research review article simply because you need a subscription for that. |
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