Obviously the answer is no, I don’t. If I just eat food and don’t do anything outrageous, like switch to a diet of live grenades, I’ll probably be fine, more or less.
But it’s a question that I’ve asked myself after dropping my daily logging habit on MyFitnessPal after more than 13 years and switching to the information-dense layout of Cronometer.
It would be much simpler to just make what I feel are good choices and not actually try to meticulously track every calorie. It’s tempting.
The one thing keeping me using Cronometer for now is how prominently it displays the nutrients of the food you’re eating. This has shown me that I’m almost certainly not getting enough protein. For someone who runs multiple times a week, this is important!
What I might do, then, is make tweaks to my diet to up certain nutrients, verify the results in Cronometer, then decide if I want to keep tracking. Of course, at that point, tracking would probably be a lot simpler and faster, too.
Now excuse me while I go drink 10 litres of protein shakes1I don’t even want to imagine how my body and/or bladder would react to this.
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