What should I track besides calories?

You deleted the calorie app. Good. You still want to know what's going on with your body after food — without turning every meal into math.

That's the whole point. Calories are one lens. They're not the only useful one, and for a lot of busy women they're the least sustainable one.

Five things worth tracking instead

1. How full you felt — and when

Not "good" or "bad." Try: still hungry, satisfied, uncomfortably full, or hungry again by X time.

That single note often explains the 4pm raid better than 400 vs 600 calories ever did.

2. Energy 1–3 hours later

Fine. Foggy. Wired-then-crash. Need a nap.

Write it in plain language. You're looking for repeat afternoons, not one weird Tuesday.

3. What else was happening

Late meeting. Bad sleep. Skipped breakfast. Period week. Travel.

Context isn't an excuse — it's data. Same lunch hits different on different days.

4. Rough meal shape — not grams

Protein anchor or not? Mostly vegetables? Huge portion? Ate standing up at 2pm?

You don't need precision. You need enough detail to recognize the meal later.

5. Timing

When you ate matters as much as what. Lunch at noon vs 2:30 can change your whole afternoon.

What you can skip (for now)

• Weighing everything
• Macro percentages
• Comparing your day to a stranger on Instagram
• Explaining every fluctuation on the scale

You're building memory, not a thesis.

A simple 7-day experiment

Pick one focus — energy after lunch, or fullness until dinner, or sleep after late eating.

For seven days, log:

• What you ate (rough is fine)
• One body note after
• One context line if something was off

At the end, read back Thursday and Friday first. Those days usually tell the truth about your week.

How this connects to Fyll

Fyll is built around this list — meal, how it felt, what else was going on. Phine helps you remember the pattern so you're not starting from zero every Monday.

Not a calorie counter. A food-body memory you can actually use.