Darren Hardy in his book The Compound Effect talks about the challenge of paying attention to the small details. He poses the question how much more likely are you to reach your goal weight if you counted every bite, crumb, scrap of food you put in your mouth. That bite of cereal, the "dad tax" bite off your kids plate, the little "taste" of this unbelievable dessert.
Oftentimes, those are the calories we forget. No, I am not trying exaggerate here and saw that your little nibble is what is keeping from your goals. But enough nibbles during a day will add up. The challenge is to track every calorie that we take in, in order to create a calorie deficit for that day. The complex idea of weight loss has a simple formula, burn more calories than you take in. Now there are many other factors, but a great starting point to achieving weight loss is to do the math -- count calories!
There are some great tools that make this even more convenient:
MyfitnessPal
SparkPeople
LiveStrong -- save the Lance jokes. It is still a useful tool.
plus many more in the App Store or Google Play for your smartphone. Which leads me to this point, all these calorie counters you can take with you. No EXCUSES for not keeping track! So do it! I want you to have a beach ready BEACHBODY! Do the work, eat right, and keep track!!
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