5 Ways to Control Your Calories WITHOUT Tracking
Just like you’d monitor your bank account to reach your financial goals, the same goes for calorie counting to reach your fitness goals. However, here are a few tips you might incorporate in the meantime🤜💥🤛
1️⃣ Intermittent Fasting:
Choose a fasting window that lasts between 12 & 20 hours depending on what suits you best. Coffee, water, tea, & seltzer are all great choices for you to consume while fasting. During your fast, the primary idea is that you are consuming no calories & then consume calories during your feeding window. Do keep in mind that calories are still key to determining whether you lose weight, gain weight, or maintain.
2️⃣ Reduce/Remove Snacking, Focus on Meals:
Instead of focusing on the popular belief that you HAVE to have 3 meals & two snacks, try reducing or removing your snacking. This is an easy way to cut some calories from your total caloric intake & an opportunity for you to focus on the quality & quantity of your meals.
3️⃣ Reduce or Remove Caloric Drinks:
By consuming a 16 oz Starbucks Brown Sugar Shortbread Crème Frappuccino, you quickly consume 430 calories. Even a 12oz is 290 calories. Many regularly purchase a Frappuccino or Latte with a breakfast item on their way to work. By exchanging a Frappuccino or Latte for a black coffee, you can save a TON of calories per week. Another thought might be to save such drinks or even alcohol for those special occasions.
4️⃣ Use Smaller Plates:
Instead of grabbing that large 12” plate & filling the entire white space, try grabbing a smaller plate. When you see a ton of white space on your plate, you often misjudge how much food is on your plate. If a large plate is your only option, one option might be filling the inner ring of the plate.
5️⃣ Incorporate Meal Templates:
Having a meal template allows us to focus on a balanced meal. An example of @precisionnutrition meal template would consist of 1-2 palms of protein, 1-2 fists of vegetables, 1-2 cupped hands of carbs, & 1-2 thumbs of fats. After 1-2 weeks of consistently incorporating any of these, assess your progress & adjust as need be to help you meet your goal(s).
