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Team WAG
Oct 8, 2025
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Expert nutrition advice, tracking tutorials, member stories, and more to help you reach your goals.
10 Essential Healthy BBQ Tips to Enjoy Summer Without Derailing Your Goals
Summer is here, and with it comes the joy of sunshine, longer days, and backyard BBQs! These gatherings are fantastic for connecting with friends and family, but they can also feel like a minefield if you're working hard towards specific nutrition and fitness goals. How do you enjoy the fun without feeling like you've completely undone your progress?
Ali Macy
May 26, 2025
5 Common Holiday Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid This Season (And How to Stay on Track)
November and December are a time for celebration, family gatherings, and delicious meals, but they can also be challenging for anyone trying to stay on top of their nutrition goals. Between festive feasts, holiday parties, and endless sweet treats, it’s easy to fall into habits that can derail your progress. But staying healthy doesn't mean you have to miss out on the joy of the season.
Ali Macy
Nov 25, 2024
6 Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Food
A healthy relationship with food means honoring your hunger and fullness cues, reducing stress around meals, and accepting past food choices. A “good” relationship with food will help you feel relaxed at social events, which means you enjoy being around friends and family without anxiety. (About food, anyway.) And most importantly, it can help make your diet sustainable...
Amy Cimo
Jul 22, 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
How to Use AI to Plan Healthy Meals
Are you wondering how to use AI to plan healthy meals for you and your family? Here are some of the best practices we suggest to ensure you get what you need while keeping planning and prepping quick, easy, and cost-effective.
Miranda Stiehm
May 29, 2024
Quick Holiday Health Tips for Macro Trackers
Thanks to the multitude of social events at this time of year, higher-calorie foods and extra temptations are more readily available than usual. How do you maintain your macros and healthy eating habits during a holiday party or family feast?
Team WAG
Dec 13, 2023
How to Order at Restaurants (Infographic)
Breaking bread with friends and family, having someone else serve, cook, and clean up after you…we all need that sometimes, but you don’t need to throw your nutrition plan out the window in the process.
Team WAG
Oct 5, 2023
Bulk Cooking For Your Family: Tips & Tricks from a Busy Mom
While tracking macros and reaching your goals is a top priority, you may still have to make dinner for little ones. This 5-step guide will help you bulk cook for your family.
Maria Higgins
Feb 20, 2023
What Should I Eat to Support My Immune System?
The question, “What should I eat to support my immune system?” can be answered with one big word that describes a very small dietary element: micronutrients. Micronutrients play an important role in supporting your immune system. And hey, if a healthier immune system means not missing out on time in the gym or with family and friends and spending less time in the medicine aisle of the grocery store, it’s worth prioritizing, right?
Katherine Hyatt Hawkins
Dec 9, 2021
WAG's Ultimate Meal Prep Guide
Meal prepping for yourself? Your family? One day at a time? A week at a time? This Meal Prep Guide is the ultimate compilation of strategies.
Dani Sheriff
Apr 7, 2021