📚 Teaching Tuesday: “Don’t Copy My Homework… Learn It” 😏🍌🫐

My partner has been asking me to bake my high-protein banana loaf with raspberries and blueberries… so I finally said, okay let’s do it.

But then I asked him:“Are you tracking your meals?”

He goes, “Yeah… I just started today.” 👀

Perfect timing. Instead of me doing what I usually do (aka doing everything for him 😅), I flipped it into a teaching moment.

➡️ I had HIM create the recipe in MyFitnessPal

➡️ I had HIM enter the ingredients

➡️ I had HIM learn the process

Because here’s the truth…

Just copying my tracking isn’t the same as understanding it. And since I’m using regular bananas 🍌 (I am also allergic to it), it doesn’t make sense for me to log something I’m not even eating.

So I told him straight:

👉 If this matters to you, put in the work

👉 If you don’t care, I’m not spending extra time weighing, logging, and doing the mental load for you!!

Tracking takes:

Time ⏱️
Effort 💭
Consistency 🔁

And I want him to feel that… not just benefit from mine.

Real talk: We can support people, but we can’t do the work for them. Sometimes the best way to help someone is to teach them responsibility instead of making it easy.

💬 Question for you: Have you ever had to “step back” and let someone learn the hard way instead of doing it for them?

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