What metrics do you like to track other than calories?

thegreatcoyote

I like to check daily AM glucose and daily total protein, fiber and Sodium.

These generally help me to steer food decisions in a helpful way and indirectly reduce over consumption.

It's also nice to be able to hit one or two daily goals instead of calling the day a wash when it goes off the rails.

What works for you?

Lietchi

You mean regarding food intake, or broader than that?

I keep track of a lot of metrics, in a spreadsheet:
- weight: daily weigh-ins +averages over several periods
- calories: daily intake (MFP), daily TDEE according to my fitness tracker, average TDEE calculated based on my weight trend, daily calorie deficit/surplus
- daily step count
- exercise (type and duration)
- VO2max according to my watch and Runalyze
- measurements and estimated bodyfat based on those measurements according to several calculators (not a daily thing, every few months)

yirara

Weight, calorie intake and basically just carbs because I feel miserable if I don't have enough. Plus my sports watch tracks a lot of interesting stuff. The most interesting for me is heart rate variation as it's a great metric when coming down with a cold/covid/other stuff before actually feeling sick, and a great metric for showing how I heal after accident or surgery.

greenoaks1

Carbs, protein and fat. Less carbs helped me shed 15 pounds since March. Also blood glucose, which dropped by 30.

AnnPT77

I have daily minimums for protein grams, fat grams, and fruit/veggie servings (I'm OK with the rare off day, but aim to hit those on the overwhelming majority of days. I don't "track them", other than logging as I go through the day and striving to hit/exceed them. I try to make sure I get MUFA and PUFA, not just saturated fats, but don't have a numeric goal.

I weigh myself every morning (unless away from home), and log my weight and estimated body fat percent in Libra.

I use a Garmin tracker to record my workouts, and log workouts in MFP (not necessarily using the Garmin's calorie estimate, if I have a better one). Sometimes I run reports in Garmin Connect to look at long-term exercise totals and trends, but I care more about how my body feels and performs than about the numbers or how I look.

I don't track it in the sense of recording it in some structured way, but I watch my on-water rowing splits (time per 500 meters) on speed/power pieces and strive for progress. I log some stats about my machine rowing in a notebook. When I strength train (seasonal at best, not consistent), I write my exercises, sets, weight and sometimes other notes in a notebook.

I like data, but I don't usually have goals about the numbers, other than wanting to keep my weight in a certain range. The data is there to serve my real-life goals, like being healthy, improving technically in my sport(s), and things like that. The data for it's own sake? Not really.

tomcustombuilder

Protein only along with weekly calories. Everything else is what it is. I eat very little high processed food.