Cooking Big, Tracking Smart
Your complete guide to tracking family dinners, meal prep, and bulk recipes.
Team WAG
Oct 8, 2025
WAG Blog
Expert nutrition advice, tracking tutorials, member stories, and more to help you reach your goals.
Pumpkin Spice Panic: Decoding the Starbucks Fall Drink Menu
Whether you’re a committed PSL fan or you’re curious about the new Pecan Oatmilk Cortado, these seasonal favorites are hard to resist. But if you’re tracking macros, it helps to know what’s in your cup before you order.
Team WAG
Sep 10, 2025
Understanding Your Unique Calorie Needs as an Athlete (Without Obsessive Tracking)
As an athlete, understanding your calorie needs can feel overwhelming. This is especially true when you're trying to strike the right balance between performance, recovery, and maintaining a healthy relationship with food. Let’s explore how to understand your unique nutritional needs in a realistic, sustainable way. so you can fuel for performance while preserving your mental and emotional health.
Brittany Werner
Jul 23, 2025
How to Measure Progress Without the Scale
The scale is only one measure of progress. There are many alternative ways to measure progress that do not involve your weight. In fact, focusing on more than one method to measure your progress can be very helpful in assessing your progress accurately. After all, the more puzzle pieces you have, the easier it is to put the whole picture together, right?
Ali Macy
Mar 3, 2025
A Guide to Macro Tracking for Beginners
Not all calories are created equal! Learn the difference between protein, carbs and fats and the basics of counting macros.
Mitch Lockhart
Jan 8, 2025
Alternatives to Macro Tracking: Creative Ways to Build Consistency Without Counting Your Macros
There is a time and place for precisely tracking everything you eat. There is also a time and place for finding alternatives to macro tracking that allow you to feel accountable for your nutrition choices without the extra math, planning, and phone apps.
Andi Petty
Oct 15, 2024
Here's How to Stay Energized All Day Long
We lead busy lives, working relentlessly to keep our heads above water. That being said, humans are meant to be busy. We’re capable of achieving a LOT in one day, but a lack of self-care makes that harder than it should be.
Team WAG
Sep 2, 2024
Should I Undereat the Day After Overeating? What WAG Nutrition Coaches Say
Using methods like tracking macros or counting calories for weight loss is very effective. It’s one of our favorite ways to educate members about food intake and help them reach their goals.
Team WAG
Jul 24, 2024
How to Follow Your Nutrition Plan While Traveling
Tracking macros while traveling presents unique—but manageable—challenges. In today’s episode of Lunch & Learn, WAG RDNs share their favorite tips for following your nutrition plan when you hit the road for work or pleasure.
Team WAG
Jul 17, 2024
How to Count Macros for Weight Loss An In-Depth Guide
Get an in-depth look at how to count macros and calculate your own macros for weight loss. Learn how to lose weight without negatively impacting your performance or recovery.
Ali Macy
Jul 9, 2024
How to Get Better at Estimating Your Food: 7 Tips to Try
Estimating your food intake has a time and place. Maybe you’re just getting started tracking your macros and need to simplify things. Or, maybe you’re on a fun family vacation and want to log your meals without putting everything you eat on a food scale. No matter what, improving your food estimation skills is vital to long-term macro tracking (and general nutrition) success.
Amy Cimo
Jul 9, 2024
The Top 6 Things Holding You Back from Losing Weight
As a nutrition coach, one of the questions friends and family ask me most is, “Why can’t I lose weight?”. It’s a common question and not all surprising since the process of weight loss is complex and has a lot of variables.
Nicola Spencer
Jun 13, 2024