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During the 2008 Olympics, many outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post reported that Michael Phelps was eating 12,000 calories a day.

The problem: It wasn’t true.

But it highlights one of the largest problems in nutrition, which is that we suck at knowing how much we ate.

Today we’re providing a solution. We’ll cover:

* The science of how incorrect we are when we estimate what and how much we ate.

* Who is most likely to be most wrong in their eating estimates.

* The three reasons we tend to get food estimates wrong.

* Why knowing your intake matters.

* A skill you can use to know what you really ate.

* How to use the information so you can lose weight, gain it, maintain your current weight, or fuel a workout.

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