Ep. 663 - Does Tracking Macros Cause Disordered Eating?

Cody dives into "disordered eating" in today's episode. This is a form of dietary behavior that can be unhealthy and destructive, but is also far different and much more easily reversible than an "eating disorder".

Cody defines both and shows you the specific differences in the two, as well as signs and symptoms of them in order for you to better identify when they may be arising in you or others around you.

He then dives into specific research looking at tracking food in apps, like myfitnesspal, and measuring progress through means such as body checking in a mirror, weighing in on the scale regularly, and other forms of dietary restraint. This leads into what studies show as correlations vs. actual causations, what those two different things actually mean, AND why tracking macros has actually never been shown to be directly associated with disordered eating - but rather how it can be the personality types, goals, and extreme processes of getting super-lean that cause these disordered eating patterns.

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• MASS Research Review Shoutout
  • https://www.strongerbyscience.com/mass-best-of/
• Defining Eating Disorders vs. Disordered Eating
  • Disordered Eating or Eating Disorder: What’s the Difference?
• Reviewing The Research on Disordered Eating
  • Introducing Dietary Self-Monitoring to Undergraduate Women via a Calorie Counting App Has No Effect on Mental Health or Health Behaviors: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Calorie counting and fitness tracking technology: Associations with eating disorder symptomatology
  • Towards a Sustainable Nutrition Paradigm in Physique Sport: A Narrative Review
  • Self-monitoring has no adverse effect on disordered eating in adults seeking treatment for obesity
  • Body checking in non-clinical women: Experimental evidence of a specific impact on fear of uncontrollable weight gain
  • Daily self-weighing and adverse psychological outcomes: a randomized controlled trial
  • Weight-loss maintenance for 10 years in the National Weight Control Registry