Most folk don’t have to count calories, their IF goes smoothly and we hardly see them here once they have got going because it all goes swimmingly. But sometimes its really useful to know what it is that you are really eating. When I stopped losing weight I was shocked to realise that my TDEE is about 15% lower than what I was eating on non fast days, so no wonder I didn’t lose any weight.

For me it was more a question of taking a look at what was going on. I also used myfitnesspal to track what I was eating, and that showed me how much sugar I was consuming…..

So, useful information if you need it, but not a way of life.

teatime

many don’t

however i do

i go 20% less than my tde on nonfastdays
due 2 a sedentary life

but 500 cals fastdays super nutrition

c which one works 4 u

u might b the lucky one

go into search click on names there is a thread of noncounters

just make it fun & no stress

u can always change it anyway u want

keep us posted

No Teatime, I don’t count calories, or very rarely.

But I did in the early days, while I was relearning what to eat. Nowadays I know that I am generally close enough, as long as I stick to my personal eating rules.

If you are losing weight, and eating healthily I wouldn’t bother to count calories except for information. A lot of us who are slightly longer in the tooth have rather lower TDEE’s than we imagine, and so its a useful exercise to help retrain appetite.

I think its also useful to look at the calorie content of foods, especially the ones that do us no good. I find it really helps me to make the right choices to be aware of, but not obsessive about, the calorie content of some of my areas of weakness (which nearly always involve SUGAR).