Q&A: If I’m not trying to lose weight, should I still track what I eat?
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Tracking your food doesn’t have to be about weight loss. In this episode, Jess reframes tracking as a tool for awareness, not control, and shares different ways to reflect on what you're eating without counting calories. From food + mood journaling to using CGM data, you’ll hear practical methods that help build intuition and confidence around food choices.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast. In today's minisode, we are talking about |
| 0:07.2 | tracking. This question we got from our Instagram, a person asked if they're not trying to lose |
| 0:13.1 | weight, should they still track what they eat? I thought this was a fantastic question to answer |
| 0:18.3 | during a minisode. So I'm just going to jump right in. |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome to the Diabetes Digital podcast. I'm Wendy. And I'm Jess, and we're best friends, |
| 0:27.4 | registered dieticians, and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth platform, |
| 0:31.6 | diabetes digital.co, we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people |
| 0:37.0 | with diabetes and |
| 0:37.8 | prediabetes. Visit diabetes digital.co that's CO to book your first appointment. We accept |
| 0:44.2 | insurance and offer affordable self-pay options. Now let's get into today's episode. |
| 0:50.8 | So first and foremost, I think it's important to reframe the idea of tracking. |
| 0:55.9 | Sometimes when you're working with a dietitian, you might track your meals. |
| 1:00.2 | And with us, we don't have people track their calories, you know, calorie counting or macro tracking. |
| 1:05.5 | We just have them track like how they're feeling before and after a meal, their hunger level before a meal, |
| 1:13.5 | their fullness level after a meal, the emotional state that they were in. And they might also |
| 1:19.3 | take a picture of what they ate. So we can kind of look at it as dietitians and give them |
| 1:23.6 | suggestions for the nutrition content of their meal based on whatever their goals are. |
| 1:29.3 | So tracking doesn't have to mean calorie counting. I think of it as checking in with yourself, |
| 1:34.0 | not controlling yourself, and learning how different meals make you feel. There are some potential |
| 1:40.5 | benefits to this awareness. You might notice that you always crash at 3 p.m. |
| 1:44.7 | after certain lunches. I certainly noticed that. Or that on days that you have more fiber, |
| 1:49.7 | you have more steady energy. I had a client once who realized that her evening blood sugar |
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