Friday, March 29, 2013

healthy Students on a Budget: Counting Calories

I am posting a bit late, for two reasons.  I had to work last night, and I totally forget about today is my blog day.

So today we are going to talk about counting calories.  But who cares about calories, and whats the point of counting them.

Since calories is the main source of energy that goes into your body, if you take in too much energy in a day.  The left over energy not used, will be turned into fat.  That is the main reasons some people will try to keep track of their calories.

I am going to leave some tips or ideas on ways to count them.

1) There are many sites that may count your daily calories throughout the day.

2) There are some good apps on your phone that can track your calories.

3) If you work at a office daily you can track on a word document that you have eaten throughout the day.

4) there are some foods you cannot keep track off, even just rounding it a bit higher will give you an good idea.

5) instead of counting the total amount of calories that you intake, try to count the calories that you take out in a day.  With change certain types of food with a lower calorie version.

If you are able to cut 300 calories from your diet within a day, you can lose 2100 calories in week which is the same amount as the average person would intake.

Have any questions or comments let me know

-Matt

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