The Happy Valley Nutrition Blog

ONGOING THOUGHTS ON INTUITIVE EATING, BODY IMAGE, LIVING THE ANTI-DIET LIFE, AND GENERAL AWESOMENESS.

Food and Nutrition, Intuitive Eating, Wellness Amanda Mittman, MS, RDN, LDN Food and Nutrition, Intuitive Eating, Wellness Amanda Mittman, MS, RDN, LDN

There’s an app for that!!

There are so many apps these days to track everything you do: calorie counting apps, sleeping apps, meditating apps, and even pooping apps (I’ll be getting to that one later, it’s seriously one of my fave!).  Yet Intuitive Eating as a practice doesn’t require you to track your calories or even the foods you eat like most diets do.  In fact I have seen so many people get obsessed with the tracking their foods, calories and exercise that it can lead to unhealthy behaviors.

There are so many things wrong with our worship of tracking our intake.

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