>Seriously you are gonna spend a couple of minutes each time you eat logging your food? Yes. >Besides that you have to try and take super specific measurements of the food? You can ballpark it pretty well. >This could waste like a half hour of your day easily just analyzing. Not at all. >Just cut carbs down a lot or fast Weight Loss, for many, is a lot more nuanced than this. And if you're wanting to sustain your weight loss - calorie counting and watching what you eat, and how much you eat is a big part of that.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

>You can ballpark it pretty well. My approach is to carefully measure foods that I know are very calorie dense (or are easy to measure), and eyeball most low calorie dense foods. For example, when making yogurt with frozen berries and granola I will weigh it all to measure it because it doesn't add a significant amount of time or effort when you have a food scale. I have no concerns about the berries, and I will generally round to the nearest serving, I will try to get within 10 grams on the plain yogurt because it really doesn't matter that much, but I will try to hit the exact gram targets of the granola.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

While I agree you don't need to meticulously log every ounce of milk you add to your morning coffee, it's important to know the general caloric value of the foods you consume. You should know the rough values of the calories-per-serving, and how many *servings* you're actually consuming. You can round up to the nearest hundred, but you have to be careful not to unwittingly each 4-5 servings of that food in a single session.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Tell me you don't understand nutrition or fitness without telling me...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I have done it and you aren't spending hours on this stuff or measuring it down to the gram, and it does work. But it doesn't tend to be sustainable, people need lasting change. Exercise for me became the key, I could then pretty much eat what I wanted, just cut down portion size a little.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Pretty sure the worst way to lose weight is the "pray it away" method

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Dunno some people do surgery, then they just gain it back with a lot of bodily trauma. Worse their initial weight loss often destroys their metabolism. As they lose 1 pound of muscle per 9lbs of fat… which initially is a great deal especially if you can keep it off. But often it is just for a quick fix though. For instance 300lbs female gets gastric bypass. Loses to 150. That is 15 lbs of muscle loss. 135 fat which is amazing… But then they start to eat bad. Eventually they eat like they once did… because let's face it self control is hard. It takes the typical female 1 month of rigorous weight training to gain 1 pound of muscle (Talking serious body builder type training to gain 1 lbs of muscle, not barely pushing yourself and fyi men it is 2lbs on average they can gain of muscle in a month). So guess what if you didn't do at least 15 months of weight training you gain past where you started if you go back to bad eating (Always be aware you also lose muscle when losing weight through caloric deficiency).

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The most important thing to cut out is sugar, not carbs. Also, it only takes a few extra minutes to measure out the proper portions.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You don't know much, if anything, about this.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Fast? That's the worst advice! Fasting, especially for a prolonged period of time, can cause muscle wastage which can then slow down the metabolism even more. The correct way to lose weight is to have a slight calorie deficit and up your activity level. Yes, that's the "hardest" way. But it's also the way that has been proven to lead to permanent fat loss.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

"Ballpark" numbers work. If the Cheez-It box says that a serving = 25 crackers = 150 calories, I can surmise that each cracker has 6 calories. But the most important bit of information is the serving size. You don't have to weigh the 25 crackers to be sure they weigh exactly 30g total. You just have to eat "a serving" and not "the whole box".

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Well, I get all kinds of effed up if I cut out carbs. I lost 50 lbs by calorie "counting" if you will. Specifically, I cut my TDEE by half, and that did the trick. Didn't make me lightheaded or tired, was still able to exercise. I think carbs and adequate hydration are actually the key to success.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It takes like 5 minutes a day to count calories, it's not that bad lol. I've been doing it since October and it's been really helpful to make sure I'm eating a good balance of macros each day, and I hit my protein goals. 🤷‍♀️

by Anonymous 2 years ago