🏋️ Why Tracking (Not Guessing) Changes Everything

PLUS: Data Beats Emotion—Especially When Progress Slows

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Michael Pender & Ryan Engel
July 24, 2025

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TODAY’S LEVEL UP:

  • Coach’s Corner: Why Tracking (Not Guessing) Changes Everything

  • Pro Tip: Data beats emotion, especially when progress slows

  • Question from Our Readers: Is tracking my food really necessary to lose fat?

  • Fit Trivia: Which 90s fitness video game included a built-in food log and required players to check in their weight every morning?

Why Tracking (Not Guessing) Changes Everything

If you’re not seeing results, but you “feel” like you’re doing everything right.

Here’s your wake-up call:

What you measure, you can manage.

Tracking:

  • Removes emotion from the equation

  • Helps you spot trends and patterns

  • Shows you where progress is happening (or stalling)

  • Builds awareness, which builds consistency

You don’t need to count every gram forever, but tracking for just 7 days can reveal where you’re over- or underdoing it.

This isn’t about perfection. It’s about precision.

FROM RYAN’S DESK

Feelings change. Standards don’t. Set your standards high and live by them every damn day. Tired? Busy? Not in the mood? Doesn’t matter. Hold the line. That’s how men build legacies.

Pro Tip:

Data Beats Emotion, Especially When Progress Slows

When the scale doesn’t move, don’t panic—review the data:

  • Are you hitting your protein goal?

  • Are you actually in a calorie deficit?

  • Are you sleeping enough to recover?

Don’t guess. Track it. Fix it. Win.

Question from Our Readers:

“Is tracking my food really necessary to lose fat?”

– Carlos, 50, from Denver

Not forever—but in the beginning?

Yes. 100%.

Think of tracking like using GPS on a road trip. Once you know the route, you can coast.

But if you’re stalled, lost, or plateaued? Tracking gives you clarity fast.

Use an app. Or write it in a notebook. Just get the numbers down—then adjust based on truth, not feelings.

Fit Trivia: Which 90s fitness video game included a built-in food log and required players to check in their weight every morning?

Answer: Mario Family Fitness (1994, Japan-only NES add-on)! Using the Family Trainer Pad (a precursor to the Wii Fit board), this rare gem encouraged daily weigh-ins and food tracking. It was ahead of its time—gamifying habits decades before wearables and fitness apps took over.

Ryan Engel, Intl. Fat Loss Coach

Ryan is a leading fitness coach and one of the most known professionals in the space.

He specializes in Body Recomposition and visual body aesthetics and has reached millions worldwide with his powerful messaging. He brings a unique, non-nonsense, yet sophisticated approach to body change.

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