Counting calories: not useful, you do not need it

It is complicated and it stops you from listening to your body

Counting calories gives you and exact number but that is unlikely to be true and it stops you from listening to your body. Photo by Sumudu Mohottige on Unsplash

If counting calories works for you (i.e. it helps you to maintain the weight you want to have) and you are committed to continue doing it long-term, by all means, count calories.

This actually applies to everything I recommend or not in this blog. If you are doing something different that works for you, it is healthy and feasible long-term, just keep doing that.

For those of you who count calories but are not seeing the result you want, I suggest you stop.

This is why.

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Deconditioning the urge to eat something you do not want to eat

More on processing urges: track success, analyse failures

Track 100 processed cravings/urges to snack, you are done! Photo by Marcel Eberle on Unsplash

Have you been processing urges?

Fantastic, it will have given you lots of practice. It will have prepared you for the recommendations I will give you in this post. You do not need to have succeed with every urge. It is the practice that matters.

As long as you are:

  1. Committed to continue (100% committed)
  2. Understand why you’ve given in to the urge: ask yourself lots of questions, what were you thinking just before you eat? What ‘excuse’ did you use to allow yourself to eat that snack?
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