Do You Struggle With Tracking Your Calories?

If you have started a healthy regime, whether to lose weight or gain weight, you need to know what you are eating and the calories and micronutrients and macro nutrients that they are laden with. There are not many calorie counters out there that can track your calories, your fitness activity levels, your water intake and provide you with a journal and a community of people willing to support you. 

My Fitness Pal Calorie Counter

This one tool has helped many of my clients including myself understand how to control their daily food intake as well as putting in an adequate exercise regime.

You can put in your weightloss or weight gain goals, your height and your current weight and how much you wish to lose each week, the app will then calculate how much calories you need to eat and burn each week to help you achieve your goals.  Recording food is easy to do, you can barcode scan items, or you can find items on the huge database that is included.  

When I first started of using the tool, I just basically entered everything I ate.  Which really shocked me at how much calories I was eating, or not on some days, and also the high level of fat in the food I was putting into my body, as well as the lack of major micronutrients that the body needs in order to improve your health, lose weight effectively and to help with health conditions in general.   

Now for getting the most out of this tool, I input my food for the start of the day, and then review the amount of calories, and micronutrients in the food I have entered.  If I have too much fat in my diet for that day, then I look at what foods contain fat, and remove them, I can then add something else like a vegetable or fruit instead.  By going through this process of adding and removing certain foods on a day to day basis, I know it is a bit picky and time consuming, but it has helped considerably with knowing the true value of foods and nutrients you are getting from them in the first place. 

Work with a nutritionist to get the most out of using myfitness pal as you will get better results, use this as a food diary and pass to your nutritionist weekly, for them to adjust and advise and comment on what changes you could make in order to help you reach your goal quicker. 

Click Here to Learn More About My Fitness Pal Calorie Counter          




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Keeping a journal of your thoughts, your journey and your high and lows will encourage you to finally reach your destination. 

My 90 day goal is to lose 10% body fat.  I'm doing this on the Boost Kit - retail £119 The extra cookies help to curb my hunger.


For me this means stepping up the exercise, and drinking lots of water.  Of course there needs to be some dietary changes for me, as I love cheese which is high in fat!

So this is not going to be an easy challenge.  Also I love eating out these days,as I do not have any small children, I can enjoy the luxury of not having to cook a meal.  

I am adapting my lifestyle using the vi shakes and sensible eating, yes even if I eat out, and will achieve my goal in the next 80 plus days. 

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I Hate Calorie Counting!

If you are like me and hate calorie counting or points counting then I can honestly say that the Visalus program is great. 

Now I am not advocating that you scrap looking at what you are eating, because this is key here. 

Let's face it, we should be reducing our fat content, sugar and salt content, so yes it is still important that we are aware of what is in our food right!

Me, I like to check out the labels on new stuff before I buy it, just to see the mineral, vitamin and calorie content.  I think it is important to know what you are putting in your body.  

After all, it's like having a petrol car and putting diesal in it - (ouch! I have known friends who have done this, and the car does not run at all well after that has happened to it)

You see our bodies are designed in such a way as to conserve energy and only produce a much as when we need it.  So in the 'lean times' it preserves fat. 

A mistake some dieters make is to have too little calories, and hey guess what, your body goes into 'lean times' mode and tries to hang on to it. 

Water, water, water!

Water breaks down fat and flushes out toxins, so a vital ingredient to any weight loss regime. 

TIPDrink a small glass of tepid water with lemon juice in every morning, this 'wakes' up the digestive system, and starts it out with a good flush. 

Some Suggestions that may help

• Watch your portion sizes. Get yourself a smaller plate so you won't be tempted to fill up a bigger plate. By watching your portion sizes you can eat what you like - hey come on, within reason now. 

• Try to avoid creamy sauces as they contain loads of fat and calories

• When you feel 'peckish' go have a glass of water.  Too often we think we are hungry when we are actually thirsty.  Plus, water fills you up so you don't go too off track and hey, its good for you. 

• Have 6 - 8 small meals a day. Now this doesn't mean meals on a plate. I'm talking about Vi Shake for Breakfast, an apple, Vi Shake for lunch, a cookie, dinner, a yoghurt (see each snack is a small meal in itself). So if you look at it this way and count how many times food entered your mouth, then you know how many 'meals' you ate for the day. 

• Make sure you are getting enough protein in your diet, as this is what helps to stop Carb craving.  So, look at the snacks you eat.  Our Chocolate Chip Nutracookies are high in protein and keep you full for a while. 

• Be accountable, and ensure you put your updates on your Challenge.com updates, keep yourself accountable, others will help you stay on track.

So hope these little gems help you with your continued success in reaching your weightloss or challenge goal. 

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to your dieting success! 

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LFGC Founder - Regional Director Vi UK
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