Thank God for the smart phone! Calorie counting used to be a nightmare, but now with my iPhone it is so easy. When we started the Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge, Kevin and I decided to download an app on our phones that would help with the whole calorie counting process. It has most common foods and brands preloaded in there so all you have to do is select it and you can keep track of your calories. There are tons of free apps out there, but the one we are using is called My Net Diary.
The app calculates your required daily intake of calories and determines your calories needed to lose weight. It will then provide an analysis of your eating on a daily basis to let you know when you haven't had enough protein, fat, or other nutrients. It's really helpful.
Here's the mistake that we both made at first. Don't cut too many calories!!! If you are supposed to eat 2000 calories per day, you need to come close to that number. We figured that "well, if I only eat 1200 calories I will lose more weight." WRONG! In the short term you will lose weight but you will quickly reach a plateau. That's what happened with both Kevin and I. We were going great for the first month both having lost around 20 lbs. But we had cut too many calories from our diets, we weren't hitting our recommended calories and we didn't lose an ounce in the next week. It wasn't until we started eating more that we started losing weight again. Sounds ridiculous right? But it turns out that you actually have to eat in order to lose weight.
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