What You’re Not Tracking is Keeping You Soft
What 34,000 food log entries over fifteen years taught me about staying lean after 60.
Guy after guy, the answer is usually the same when nutrition comes up: “I think I eat pretty well.”
I used to say it too. Then I started writing down everything I ate, and realized I was off by 300 calories a day in snacks I wasn’t counting, drinking more often than I thought, and hitting my protein target about a third of the time.
“Pretty well” is a guess. And you can’t fix your body on a guess.
If you read last week’s piece on training, you know I hit all-time strength records at 64 on a protocol that takes 44 minutes, three days a week. People want the exercises, the sets, the rep scheme. I get it. The workout is the exciting part.
The workout isn’t the reason I’m 160 pounds at 11% body fat.
The reason is boring: I track what I eat.
Every day. Every meal. Every Old Fashioned and every handful of dark chocolate. I’ve been doing it since 2010 using the Lose It app. Over 34,000 individual entries across fifteen years. I can pull up what I ate on a random Tuesday in 2014.
That’s it. That’s the whole nutrition secret.
