JJ Virgin explains why measuring your food matters for weight loss. Even healthy foods cause fat storage when you eat too much. Use a scale and measuring cups to track portions and find hidden calories that might be stalling your progress.
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If you're not doing it right now, you gotta track your food. That means you gotta get a food scale, cups, measuring spoons, and you gotta get in there and really identify what you're eating. Remember, too much healthy food's unhealthy, and we really tend to underestimate what we're eating unless we are actively measuring it. And this does not mean you're gonna have to do this all the time. All right? But for now, let's just make sure that that is not the issue. Because if you're eating more calories than your body needs, guess what? It's going to store them. Likely is fat. So one of the easiest ways to break a plateau is to track your food and really see what's going on.