DO YOU NEED TO TRACK CALORIES TO LOSE BODY FAT?
You’ll be surprised to hear this, but you don’t actually have to.
Why?
This might go against everything you’ve heard before, but hear me out.
After tracking calories for some time, you will eventually have enough knowledge to know roughly how much a typical portion of rice equates to.
You would have a rough idea of which foods tend to be more calorific, and which ones provide fewer calories.
Alongside this, you would have built up a good idea of how active you’d need to be a week, in order to create a sustainable calorie deficit.
Now let’s say you have planned to go out this weekend for a meal and drink with friends.
You’ll know based on previous experience, that this is where calories can go through the roof.
So, in response to this, you decide to choose to have breakfast with foods that you have identified as having fewer calories.
Leaving room for you to enjoy your evening meal without guilt.
Because you have the knowledge, you can now make educated choices around your nutrition rather than guestimating.
However, this level of freedom doesn’t come without doing your homework first.
Almost think of it like learning to ride a bike.
Upon the first few attempts, you probably weren’t as confident as you are today.
So to help you overcome that feeling of nervousness, you’d often start off with some stabilisers.
The stabilisers give you the ability to focus on your technique, without having to worry about your balance or falling off the bike.
As you begin to practice more and more, your confidence in your own ability also grows.
After some time you will feel confident enough to remove the stabilisers, and maybe if you’re daring enough even ride free hand.
It’s the exact same process when it comes to eating for fat loss.
Often people will try to skip the stabiliser stage, and move straight on to trying to eat whatever they want, and hope that fat loss will occur as long as they work out enough.
I’d love to be able to tell you that would work, but unfortunately, that’s not the case.
It takes time to feel confident in your decision around nutrition.
Although the thought of counting calories, can at first seem overwhelming, the life it helps you create is so much more rewarding.
Being able to enjoy more of the food you love, in moderation because the majority of your choices are in line with your individual goal.
This sounds like a great theory in context, but where do you go from here?
Almost all packaged products contain their calorie information on the back of the product.
You could keep a physical diary jotting down your calories across the day for each of your meals.
This again can be time-consuming, but helps you to have somewhere to refer back to at any point in time.
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