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7 Proven Weight Loss Strategies That Don’t Involve Counting Calories
This last week the UK government introduced putting the number of calories on menus in all UK restaurants. But is tracking your calories the only answer when it comes to weight loss?
There are pros and cons to tracking calories.
It can have a place, even though it’s not always entirely accurate.
Our bodies absorb energy differently, not to mention the hormonal shifts that eating different foods can have on the body. For example, eating 300kcal of salmon will create a much different effect on the body than eating a 300kcal doughnut.
One will leave you feeling fuller and provide your body with essential nutrients and minerals, and the other will leave you wanting to indulge in yet another crispy creme as your off switch fails to register.
So whilst calories do matter, they are not all created or absorbed equally.
Having said that having calories on a menu or tracking your food for a number of days can be helpful to find some base guidelines, especially for many people that massively underestimate how much they eat.
Tracking for a period of time can actually help you to become more mindful of your overall food consumption and the reason it works for many people is that they just…
