Monday, March 31, 2014

Losing 10 Pounds Tip #4- Track your calories

To really lose those 10 pounds (or more if you need to) you have to drink the water, eat the small meals, and TRACK YOUR CALORIES!

Tracking your calories can be difficult, but only at first. There are many ways to do this. The paper and pencil method, writing down everything you eat to the last teaspoon, or my favorite method using an online tracking ap. There are so many out there right now such as My Fitness Pal, or Lose it. These programs help to calculate how many grams of protein, fats, carbs you’re eating as well as help to track your sugar intake and your fiber intake.

Fiber and Sugar are the two hidden dangers that a lot of people forget to pay attention to and they can be diet sabotagers. If you don't eat enough fiber, you won’t go to the bathroom regularly, soooooo important. Also, fiber helps us to stay fuller, longer, so we don't over eat.

Sugar is also one of those danger foods that quickly add up and add chub to our waistline. You should really only have about 25 grams of sugar a day, so using an online tracking system can help you with this.

Back to tracking calories......I would say try it for a week and see how you do. You might be overeating like crazy and not realizing it, or, you might not be eating enough. Once you start really tracking your calories, you start to understand things like: portion control, how much you really need to eat, how many calories are in foods and then you might not have to record things as much.

Try it for two weeks and I guarantee you lose some weight!


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