5: Track Your Food

Prevent T2: Lifestyle Coaching Program

In this episode of Prevent T2, Megan McCrory talks about the benefits and techniques of food tracking to help prevent type two diabetes. Megan explains the importance of understanding eating habits by documenting what, when, and how much you eat.

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Takeaways:

• Tracking food intake is essential for understanding and improving your eating habits.
• Start tracking just one meal a day to gradually build a consistent habit.
• Using food labels effectively helps you make informed choices about your nutrition.
• Measuring portions accurately can lead to better control over calorie intake and weight management.
• Practice measuring common foods at home to develop an intuitive sense of portion sizes.
• Tracking is a skill that improves with practice, so be patient with yourself.

Chapters

00:00 AI Edits PT2-005 Track Your Food

01:38 The Purpose of Tracking Your Food

03:49 How to Track Your Food

05:12 Practicing Food Measurement at Home

10:48 Making Sense of Food Labels

13:47 Creating Your Tracking Action Plan

16:24 Summary and Closing

The CDC Diabetes Prevention Program Curriculum (CDC DPP Curriculum) is based on the curriculum from the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) research study supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease.

© 2012, University of Pittsburgh, based on the DPP research trial supported by cooperative agreement number U01-DK48489 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which has certain rights in the material.

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