This is one of those things that you may not need to do forever, but if you’ve been putting on weight or seem to be stuck at a plateau and not losing this is a great exercise.
Biggest Loser trainer Jillian likes to say, “calories in, calories out”. Basically, if you aren’t losing weight, you are eating too much, exercising too little, or some combination of the two. Very rarely is it some other issue. It’s simple math. If you want to lose weight, you need to consume less calories then you burn.
There are tons of online sources to figure out how many calories you need a day and how many calories are in different foods. Some cost money like My Food Diary(which Nathan and I are using again)and some are free like The Daily Plate.
Sure, it can be a pain to do it, but I really believe that most of us way underestimate how many calories we are eating. Once you’ve done it for a while, you’ll have a good idea of what and how much you should be eating without always looking it up or logging it.
Now, for this week’s weigh in. I did not do well this week. I didn’t expect to since I ate way more than I should have and had only 2 days where I really was careful. I’m up a half pound. It could have been much worse. Nathan stayed the same. This will be a much better week!
Tune in tomorrow for a post of automating your meals. An idea I got from the You On A Diet book!