Tracking just carbs

Lumen tracking carbs only.

😑So I was wrong about this feature. This was a feature I had no interest in. I didn’t see the point and thought it was overly confusing. 1 portion equals 15g so if I have 3 that’s 45g, it just seems like so much counting. 🧮When I can just scan a barcode and get all my macros and calories.

⚠️But I was WRONG. I’ll explain why and why it may work for you too. I’ve released some body fat this year and am now setting into a maintenance phase. To be honest I can’t be bothered counting macros at the moment. But at the same time, I don’t believe in intuitive eating, as I’ll intuitively eat a packet of Oreos.

🍪 😂

✅So I switched to carbs only in lumen, as an experiment, and a way to loosely track. To my utter surprise, it’s fantastic.

🥧 FYI; Humble pie is 7 carb portions.

🤔So protein I barely overshoot my targets, Same with fat. Above-ground grown Veg is free.

The way it’s working for me is protein, fat and vegetables are free. I just eat these in any quantity, time and any combination till I’m satisfied. Which is very liberating.

📝I already have a lot of good nutritional habits already in place.

🎚️ Carbs are the lever with arguably the most influence. It’s hard to overeat fat when carbs aren’t in the picture. Most things we think of as ‘bad carbs’ are 40-60% fat like crisps, chocolate bars, and cakes.

⚠️🧁When we limit carbs we also limit these. These tend to be the foods most people have a problem overeating.

📲 There is a portion guide within the Lumen app, which is handy.

🤔 However, the more I’m doing this the more I’m remembering the number of portions in foods I eat often.

Sunbites=1 🌾

Rice noodles =3🌾

Protein yoghurt =1🌾

Submarine roll =3🌾

So in my little 14-day experiment 🧪 (ongoing)

I find myself with food freedom, I’m in the gym coaching snacking on biltong between clients. No need to weigh it no need to track it.

🥣Eat a protein yoghurt; these have 14g of carbs so One portion, open the app and log 1 portion.

My favourite crisps have 15g per packet, so they work great as a fun snack.

⛅️ This morning I had a roll, 47g of carbs so I logged 3 portions. The ham cheese and micro greens all free and unlogged.

It’s just a case of rounding up and down to the nearest 15g.

🥗I often have a carb-free meal, giant salad or stir fry.

🧁 If I want a treat I’ll either save some carb portions for it or have it the next day when my portions reset. This is a little off-topic but I don’t exclude things from my diet as this leads to binging.

⌚️ I can check on my Apple Watch for my portions and a suggested breakdown of how I should have my carbs like 2 for breakfast and lunch and 1 for dinner. This makes the lumen Apple Watch app super useful. It will be cool just to be able to log portions in there too.

🙂This works like the 80/20 rule it’s 20% of the work for 80% of the results.

Speaking of results this is the longest run of actually hitting my carbs without going over, ✅fat burn every morning. ✅Slight drop in weight, which is better than my recent slight gain. ✅Zero hunger so far so good. Still early days.

It’s combining well with my low-flux approach to winter ❄️. (check my winter weight gain post)

✅So if you want to slacken the hold on your tracking, & you have an idea of what your daily protein looks like, and you don’t generally overshoot your fat. This could be a great option for you. I would love to know who else is doing this or wants too.

🙏I’m finding there is less to Focus on, so I can focus greater on it.

🌬️ So apologies to Lumen I was wrong the carb only option is a great feature.

Let me know if this is something you are going try or have already.

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