Counting Calories...

charlo100 · 2018-08-13T08:57:15+00:00

Yes, buy a scales.

Count your calories for 2 weeks to try identify your maintenance calories, these are the calories you can eat without gaining or losing weight. Once you have identified your maintenance calories go into a surplus, 200-300 calories or so considering how much you want to gain.

Tracking the food is very easy, scan the barcode, it really has nothing to do with being from the US. If the app doesn't have the food and you eat it often, add it manually and save it.

never_as_big_as_pump · 2018-08-13T11:22:05+00:00

Reality of counting calories is that you just do it for few weeks until you realise how much you consume and how much calories certain food has.

After that you just estimate and
a) increase calories if you’re not gaining weight
b) decrease calories if you notice too much weight gain in a short time

calvicius · 2018-08-13T10:11:53+00:00

Try FatSecret, it's like Myfitnesspal but easier

SauliusTRP · 2018-08-13T10:50:24+00:00

Kitchen scale + calorie tracking app + body weight scale are a must. Just set a number for your goals and track calories, weight your food raw (before cooking), and add it to your app (on app you can use search function, or just scan barcode, so it finds directly the product you are trying to track). And weight yourself daily or weekly after toilette early in the morning without anything in belly, so you can see if the calorie amount helping to gain weight or you need to adjust daily amount.

Title	Counting Calories...
Author	moltenw
Upvotes	4
Comments	6
Date	August 13, 2018 8:14 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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