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Originally Posted by Persicae
I have tried calorie counting during the day and it gets hard to keep track of. I eat healthy and exercise and the weight seems to slowly be coming off.
I was just wondering: has anyone on here ever lost weight exercising and without calorie counting (but eating healthy and what-not)?
Eating healthy, watching myself, never worked. It was just too easy to overspend on calories and not create that calorie deficit that is needed in order to lose weight.
For me, calorie counting is a MUST. It keeps me in check. It's built in accountability and forced portion control.
It seems simple to me - now. I've got a calorie budget that I must keep to.
I wonder though, what gets hard to keep track of? Initially, you won't be familiar with calorie counts, but I think you will find after a few short weeks, you'll become a pro at it. But like anything new, it does take a while to get down pat. But really, eventually, it won't be hard at all.
And for me,nothing, absolutely nothing was as hard as being super morbidly obese!! It really is a matter of "choose your hard".
Any effort/work/time put towards getting to a healthy weight is effort, time, work very will used.