With the different meal plans and
exact calorie counts, this app was perfect for me.
Margaret, I don't have
the exact calorie count, but if you enter all your ingredients into a recipe builder, you should be able to figure that out.
Not exact matches
It's all artificial Erica — about 20
calories less than real honey, but the
exact same carb
count — interesting!
I don't
count calories on a regular basis, but what you might try is looking up a nutrition search website and entering in the
exact ingredients you used (a lot of these sites will have brand - specific data).
If your schedule allows, make your Valentine treats at home, so you know the
exact ingredients,
calories, and fat
count in your recipe.
Counting calories has become somewhat of a second nature to some people, to the extent that many of them don't even need such and app in the first place because they know and remember the
exact number of
calories each food contains.
I was also totally neurotic,
counted every
calorie obsessively in my head, and ate the
exact same thing 7 days a week.
Keep in mind that even programs that
count calories specifically can never be
exact for everyone, every day.
Like I mentioned before, the
calorie counting for «
calories in» can be fairly
exact, but «
calories out» can only be estimated.
So, while you definitely do not need to measure
exact servings or precisely
count calories or anything like that, you still need to use some common sense and judgment to not go completely overboard.
If you're thinking on switching to a vegetarian diet, keep in mind that the
exact amount of weight loss will be influenced by your total
calorie count, your macronutrient ratio, and amount of physical activity.
If you're merely estimating your portion sizes, then your
calorie count won't be
exact either.
Calorie counting is not an
exact science, and can be as complex as you want to make it.
Much like
calorie counting, it's not necessarily an
exact science, but something that becomes increasingly important if we go to extremes of macronutrient composition (i.e. less than 10 % of
calories from fat or carbohydrate).
I don't generally
count exact calories / nutrients because I am naturally thin and don't like to obsesses on numbers.
I actually advise people who are
counting calories to do the
exact same thing that's outlined in section 3.
Hey Sandy, without knowing
exact portions, I'm only
counting about 800
calories or so in your diet.
I mix it with the Indoor 40 and it seems to fill them more with the
exact amount of food they had previously, and the
calorie count is only 244 Kcal per cup!
So, instead I'd «drink my
calories» (the
exact opposite of what I recommend people do when they are trying to lose weight) to be sure I was getting enough of something resembling nutrients (hey, if there is a lot of milk in the latte, that still
counts — right?).