As some of you guys might know from my other thread, I lost about 100 lbs in the last year. Never counted a single calorie.
Anyway, I still have about 30 lbs to lose and I saw some famous youtube bodybuilding guys using a site called myfitnesspal to track your macros. Ive been using that site for the past month or so but all it has done for me is make me more frustrated. It feels like I am developing OCD with that site. Im gonna go back to my instinctive way of eating starting Monday.
8-12oz of protein and some fat x2-3 meals pre workout. more protein and lots of carbs post workout.
if you make things too complicated youre going to frustrate yourself and give up. especially if youre not a competitive bodybuilder having to step on stage at 4% bodyfat.
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
i’ve only noticed good things with counting calories[/quote]
Same here. I can only get so far with instinctive eating. Even though from years of experience I’ve become a pretty good “guesstimator”, I don’t see extreme results until I begin a food log. Big pain in the ass but worth it and necessary.
[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
I was just going to make a thread about this.
Does anyone have a particular website they’d recommend for measuring the amount of calories etc. in their food?[/quote]
Fitday[/quote]
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I don’t see it as being so much of a task like people make it out to be. But I’m simple. I eat the same things every single day and it doesn’t bother me so once i get in the groove i never even need to log until my coach tells me to drop calories
[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
I was just going to make a thread about this.
Does anyone have a particular website they’d recommend for measuring the amount of calories etc. in their food?[/quote]
Fitday[/quote]
x2
I don’t see it as being so much of a task like people make it out to be. But I’m simple. I eat the same things every single day and it doesn’t bother me so once i get in the groove i never even need to log until my coach tells me to drop calories[/quote]
Agreed. I eat the same foods, but necessarily every day. I made a cheat sheet on the inside of my cupboard for everything I normally eat (calories/gram or /oz, and P/C/F). Makes it super easy to take something out of the fridge, weigh it, and devour it.
I don’t get as fancy with spread sheets. I just read labels. Plus it’s alot of the same lean meats, eggs etc which I know off the top of my head. I just write it on a piece of scrap paper each day and tally as I go along. My body will stay almost the same when I just “guestimate” like Paulie does but when I need to push the envelope to something more extreme I have to count.
