For someone trying to lose weight for the first time, knowing your calorie intake is an integral part of making your diet work for you. The best way to do this is to count your calories daily. Every meal, including snacks, should be recorded. At the end of the day, you should be able to look over a report on your intake for the day. Empowered by this information, you'll be able have an understanding on how your day went, and know what changes to make for the next day.
When you're able to have an understanding of the caloric value of your eating options, its easier to choose what to eat, and what not it eat. You also have a good concept of the items that are worth spending the most calories on. It also helps you understand what substitutions to make to lower the caloric value of your meals.
If you aren't keeping a legitimate record of your calorie intake, it's easy to either ignore the nutritional value of what you're eating, or rationalize your poor decision making. When you force yourself to look at the "calorie score board" everyday - it's impossible not to see both your good days, and your bad days. A few bad days in a row should be good motivation to change bad habits and make improvements.
FIT Medical Weight Loss offers our patients a great product to track calories with our FIT Weight Loss Coach App. The application runs in any web browser, but is also available as a mobile app as well on Apple and Android devices. The FIT Weight Loss Coach App offers users tracking systems for daily calorie intake, weight loss activity, water intake, journaling, weigh-ins as well and a lot more. The FIT Weight Loss Coach App is available to patients of FIT Medical Weight Loss. Ask how to access the system on your next visit!
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