Lose Fats without Counting Calories

When you want to lose fats, most people will tell you to start counting your calorie intake. In fact, calorie counting is one of the most widespread dieting tool used by most dieters everywhere.

Frankly, anyone who as ever used this method will tell you, counting calories is really hard work. Humans are emotional, social creatures. We are not robots. When you go out for dinner, you choose who you want to go with based on whose company you believe you will enjoy, right? If you chose your dinner companion based on a list of criteria and do a full background check each time, it is really doubtful that you will enjoy your dinner.

Yet, we do this to our food. By the time we start counting the calories, we begin to wonder whether we are eating because it has the “right” calorie, or are we ordering the food because we like it. Humans avoid pain and gravitate towards pleasure. If counting calories make it painful, it is no wonder that counting calories fail.

Instead, can we build a series of “good habits”?

Strategy 1 – Cut out the Bad Stuff

Start by cutting sugar. Sugar is nothing but empty calories. It is pure calorie. Other than tasting good and containing a huge calorie count, sugar does not help in anyway. Sugar is found naturally in fruits and many other foods. We do NOT need to take any more sugar.

If you are the snacking type, then stock your fridge and cabinets with healthy snacks. Fruits, vegetable tid-bits would work. Cut out the power bars, soft drinks and so on.

Strategy 2 – Start one day at a time

When you want to start building good habits, you need to learn that it is not so hard. If you do your calorie control one day in the week first, and enjoy the rest of the week, over time, you can increase it. This will allow you to slowly but surely build a good diet habit that will never change and you will never have to count calories again.