Calorie counting is all about tracking the calories from the foods you eat. If you are looking to try this, give this blog a read, and let me know how you found it!
First of all, you are going to need to know how to check the amount of calories in your food.
The way to do this is by checking the nutritional values on the back of the food product, this is usually a white box with your calories, fats, carbohydrates and protein levels.
What are the benefits?
Some benefits of calorie counting are…
-You are able to understand what you eat, which can help you loose weight.
-If you go to a nutritionist they will more than likely ask you for a 3 day food diary, this is when you write down everything you have eaten each day for the past 3 days. So tracking your calories will make it easier on a nutritionist and you won’t have to go off and create one.
What do you actually track?
When you start tracking your calories you should track the total calories, your macronutrient intake, and the name of the food that you had.
If you are using an app your macronutrients will more than likely be shown in a graph, and the name of the food will be there as well.
Weighing out food
Usually in the box it will give you the nutritional values per 100g however if you are eating more or less ten this you may want to measure your food. This is only if you want to be accurate, do not feel you have to do this!!
MyFitnessPal
Many of you have probably heard of this before, it is a free app which you can download.
You can:
-Count your calories
-Track your exercise
-Free blogs, videos etc.
A really cool feature is the barcode scanner, this allows you to scan the barcode of your food and add it to you calories eaten.
You can also just type in the product and choose the serving size, add it to whatever meal and done!
SIMPLE!!
Manual Calorie Counting
Of course calorie counting apps are great however some people like to write them down, perhaps in a food diary. What I would suggest for this, is to also include your Carbohydrates, Fats and proteins.
Reaching your calorie goal
If you are finding it hard to stay below your calorie goal, check out this blog!
If you are finding it hard to reach your calorie goal check out this blog!
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