Your App Doesn’t Care If You Eat A Snickers
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Your calorie counter doesn’t care if you eat a snickers. Calorie counters is the topic of the day, I’m going to talk about My Fitness Pal because that’s what I’m familiar with.
When I first started training people, I would help them by monitoring their food intake on My Fitness Pal. I would sit down with them and review their calorie counter after a few weeks. My clients would be discouraged that they didn’t lose weight, but what I realized is they weren’t adding everything to their app. Almost immediately the client would admit to not entering all of their food intake. I then asked, why they didn’t add it to their calorie counter.
For the most part, it was embarrassment or denial. For many people, they are engaging in secret eating. Maybe you’ve been struggling to lose weight for a long time, so you associate that snickers with ‘bad food’. Well, guess what? Your calorie counter doesn’t care if you ate the snickers bars. Your app is only going to tell you how many calories you have left for the day. Meaning for the rest of the day you’ll have to meet your caloric and macro needs as laid out in your app.
Logging everything in will help you reach your goals for that day. All the app will do is adjust your calories for what you need. If you aren’t losing weight, get honest with yourself and log everything. Log it all, because your app doesn’t care. And yes, you can lose weight eating a snickers bar… just ask yourself, “Does that snickers bar fit within my caloric needs?”
Yo! I’m not a licensed therapist. I just talk about shit I’ve been through, learned, and some of these experiences are based on conversations I have with my athletes.
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