COUNTING CALORIES MAY BE A WASTE OF YOUR TIME

Science is great, but sometimes it makes things a little more complicated than it really needs to be. For years, I've been hearing lots of rubbish about calorie counting (especially from the ladies). 

 

Calories are important. They give us energy to live and move. But if counting calories makes you so worried about not eating more than 1500 or 2000 calories per day that you lose sight of what you’re actually eating, then you need to make some serious changes to your mindset.

 

 

Your focus should be more on the quality of food than the amount of calories are in the food. That is what really matters for optimal health. Do you think the first olympians in Greece counted calories? Or the Native Americans? Or paleolithic people? Not a chance! They didn’t even know what a calorie was. They just at a natural diet, moved around, lifted things up, threw things, etc. However, these people were some of the fittest in the world.

 

 

The only thing that gives a calorie value is the amount of nutrition that it brings to your body. Period!

If you’re a beginner, just starting out on your fitness journey, trying to count everything will be so frustrating that you’ll want to quit. In these cases it’s beneficial to keep a diet journal that doesn’t attempt to keep track of the exact amount of calories. It just makes you more aware of your food choices and when you’re eating.

 

So stop counting and just enjoy your food.