Your Scale is the Drama
How to set better goals & track progress without losing your mind
Team WAG
Sep 3, 2025
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Expert nutrition advice, tracking tutorials, member stories, and more to help you reach your goals.
7 'Healthy' Foods That Might Be Hindering Your Progress
When you're working hard to lose weight, few things are more frustrating than doing everything right—eating clean, exercising regularly—only to see the scale stall. The problem? You might be eating healthy foods hindering progress without even realizing it. While many so-called "clean" or "healthy" foods offer great nutrition, some can quietly sabotage your fat loss goals, especially when eaten frequently or in large amounts.
Team WAG
Jul 7, 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
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
How to Use a Food Scale to Count Calories and Macros
If you are starting to pay attention to your nutrition, learning how to use a food scale to count calories and macros will make the process easier. With a bit of time and practice, you can confidently determine what is in your food (and, therefore, how much you need to eat) to reach specific body composition, performance, and overall wellness goals.
Rachel Holcomb
May 20, 2024
How Much Does the Scale Matter? WAG Lunch & Learn Episode #2
What is fiber and where can you get it? Is there more to progress than just the weight on the scale? Join WAG Coaches and RDNs Brittany and Alex as they tackle some of this week's client questions:
Team WAG
Jan 2, 2024
How to Take Body Measurements for Weight Loss
The weight on the scale, body measurements, and progress pictures are the three main pieces of the body composition puzzle. Today, we’ll break down each of these factors and provide tips, tricks, and considerations for each.
Ali Macy
Sep 5, 2022
Make Friends With the Scale
For a solid two weeks, you followed your new nutrition and workout regime to a “T.” But you step on the scale and feel defeated—the number is the same as it was two weeks ago. What went wrong? Why isn’t the plan working?
Team WAG
Jun 27, 2019
10 Kitchen Tools for Macro Tracking
Whether you love spending time in the kitchen or it feels like a necessary evil, we collected the top tools that we consider worthwhile investments to make your meals more enjoyable — or at least more efficient.
Kate Hart
Nov 16, 2018
Injuries: Build Your Mind Game, Rebuild Your Body
Suffering an injury or illness can be disheartening and frustrating. This is especially the case if you’re forced to scale back on training or take a seat on the sidelines while letting your body heal.
Melanie Barnshaw
Feb 12, 2018