What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast. As always, I am your

host Mike Milner in today's episode. I am going to give you the simplest way to make progress without tracking macros. Probably one of the most common

questions that I get because for some tracking macros can be quite

triggering and obsessive and create some stress.

Now here's what I will say.

If that has happened to you in the past, that does not mean that it is going to happen to you in the present.

Hopefully you have done some work on yourself and your relationship with food and you can revisit

your relationship with tracking macros.

But for some, it can lead to disordered behaviors.

I've been on both sides.

I've been in a situation where tracking macros created obsessive tendencies and

disordered behaviors and then I took a break, was able to work on my

relationship with food, and then revisit the concept of tracking macros with success.

So it can be done.

Sometimes you just have to take a break from the thing, work on yourself, and then revisit the thing.

And that goes for the scale, that goes for anything that may, like it's never the tool or

the object, right? Like, the scale is just a device.

It's not inherently triggering, it's not inherently obsessive tracking macros.

It's just a tool.

It's a measuring system. That would be like saying you have a poor relationship with a ruler. That wouldn't make a lot of sense. It's the same concept. It's your interpretation and perception of that tool, of that

measuring device. So that's not to say that the issues aren't real. That's just to say that the issues aren't real.

That's just to say that there's some internal stuff

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