La Trampa de Medir Cada Paso y Cada Caloría (Lucía Aguado)

Summary

Lucía Aguado argues that health trackers and food-logging apps can be useful, but relying on them too heavily may increase stress and weaken people’s trust in their own bodies. Sleep scores, step counts, calorie logs, and fitness metrics can become targets in themselves, sometimes making people feel worse even when they feel rested or well.

Key Wellness Strategies

• Use metrics cautiously. Treat data from watches, scales, and apps as optional information, not the final verdict on your health or effort.
• Reconnect with internal cues. Notice hunger, fullness, energy, and how rested you feel instead of always deferring to a device or app.
• Build sustainable habits around enjoyment. Aguado sees habits as the foundation of health: activities and routines are easier to maintain when they are enjoyable.
• Combine strength training with movement you like.
  • She recommends strength training two or three times a week as a foundational practice for people of any age and gender.
  • A possible full-body session could include five or six exercises, with two to three sets of eight to twelve repetitions at a challenging intensity.
  • Keep recreational activities—such as dancing, padel, skating, swimming, or playing football—if they bring enjoyment, social connection, stress relief, or help you stay active.
• Approach nutrition flexibly.
  • Rather than chasing the latest diet, understand the reasoning behind food choices and adapt them to your needs and preferences.
  • Include carbohydrates, protein, and fats as part of a complete diet. Aguado notes their roles in energy, body structure, and hormonal function.
  • If trying a dietary change, do so gradually and observe how it affects you rather than assuming one approach is universally best.
• Eat attentively when possible. Slowing down, savoring food, and eating in a social setting may help you notice fullness. Fiber-rich foods can also support satiety.
• Seek a reasonable middle ground. Be informed about health risks and habits, but avoid letting awareness turn into constant vigilance or obsession.
• Women should be alert to under-fueling. Aguado warns that chronic low energy availability—potentially involving intense exercise, fasting, or inadequate carbohydrate intake—can affect hormonal and reproductive function, including menstrual cycles. Amenorrhea can have different causes, so she emphasizes individualized assessment rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.

Presenters and Sources Mentioned

• Lucía Aguado — guest and speaker.
• Uri Sabat — host, according to the video context.
• Other references in the discussion: Whoop and other wearable devices; EnfaF and instructors associated with a master’s program in clinical nutrition; psychoneuroimmunology (PNI); Aristotle’s idea of eudaimonia; and the Harvard Plate.