Counting calories

While I liked the idea of not having to count calories with the BFL programm and the Zuzana diet approach I think it might be good for me to do it anyway. At least for a little while.

I am using www.xundfood.ch which has the most common products listed that you would find in a swiss grocery store and gives you average grammage of the fresh foods. This way you have at least an idea of how much an apple weighs on average without acutally measuring it. This can be very helpful. Of course actually measuring the food will always give you more precise results.

Why I am doing this? Well, I typed in some of the typical meals that I usually eat during the day (6 times per day). And the reason for me not loosing weight could be that I don't eat enough. This is certainly not everyday the case. For sure not. But if this is really true for most days, my body has been starving. To avoid undereating and especially overeating I will check my calorie intake for one or two months. Just to get back on track again with the amounts of food I acutally eat. Now that I "earn" my carbs (or at least try to) according to the diet plan from Zuzana I am also more likely to have not enough calories. I guess I need to get used to the amounts I can eat if there are only veggies and protein on the plate.

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