Above all, be consistent when calorie counting.
One of the main points of failure when using a calorie tracker to lose weight is consistency. Keeping up with daily records can be difficult, but there are some things that you can do to help yourself stay on top of it. Incorporating your online or mobile journal into your daily routine is an important step to maintaining consistency in your logging while you are losing weight. Another is the ability to get in the right frame of mind and not let yourself give up when you are confronted with a challenge.
Logging your daily calorie intake with the help of a food database is a fairly quick and easy process that can be incorporated into almost any daily routine. Whether you log in the morning, the evening, or continuously throughout the day, make sure you are logging every day for maximum benefit. A good way to make this easier is to pre-plan many of your meals days or even a week in advance. Taking a day to log food intake ahead of time can help you stay on top because then all you have to do is go in every day to make any adjustments that have come up.
At one point or another when you are using an online food journal you are going to come across a challenging situation. It may be an unscheduled lunch with co-workers, dinner with a friend, or a big event like a wedding. You may just fall off the wagon one day and eat more than you should. It’s important to remember that challenges are temporary, but your weight loss is long term. Many people quit after they feel like they’ve “blown” a diet, forgetting that they can make up for the excess calories by eating a little less on other days of the week to come out even.
If you think of your food journal almost like you do your checkbook, you can help yourself stay consistent. You can make sure that you stay within your calorie budget by always logging all of your foods, much like you list all of the checks that you write. This analogy also applies to confronting challenges because weight loss doesn’t happen in a day, but week by week, so if you ensure that you are meeting your weekly goals, dealing with a daily challenge becomes much more manageable.
Weight Loss Plateaus and Your Food Tracker
A plateau can be especially demoralizing because it involves a slow down or stop of weight loss even when you are continuing to keep to your calorie and exercise goals.
An Exercise Tracker Works To Keep Your Weight Loss on Track
By adding in exercise to burn more calories, you can speed up your rate of weight loss and control how much weight you lose over time.
Things You Can Do To Successfully Meet the Calorie Goals in a Mobile Calorie Counter
It’s important to have strategies in place to deal with the challenges that you may face when you are trying to successfully stick to a reduced calorie diet.
