Who Here Doesn't Count Their Calories? (Gym & Food)

im curious... because i know several ppl who don't. they just simply eat healthy, and just exercise for a decent amount of time.

anyone here familiar with this kind of "lifestyle"?  

 

im obsessed with counting calories for both at the gym and food!!  I JUST CAN'T STOP!!!

try most teenage athletes! [well, except me.]

as teenagers, there isn't a real necessity to count calories.. at least in my opinion. most teen athletes I know eat whatever the heck they want--and a lot of it--and simply get a good amount of exercise in.

I agree with revolution3! My junior year of high school I was playing volleyball and ate whatever I wanted and still lost weight without even trying. Our coach pushed us so hard and our practices were 2 and a half hours every day so not only were we burning a lot of calories, but that also took time away from snacking and what not.

i don't count my calories, but i have "guidelines" for myself for what i can eat in a day and more specifically at each meal. i "pay attention" to how many calories come from carbs, protein and have a range i stay between. i can get way too obsessive if i count calories. i'm obsessive enough as it is!

i also allow myself unlimited amounts of certain foods. 

i'm active, but i have no idea what i burn. nothing too dramatic, i would guess. 

i've lost a lot of weight over the past year and a half, and now i'm just trying to maintain, figuring out what works for me. 

whenever i start counting.. i stop losing!!! usually couunting too strictly leads me to burning too much and being scared of goiong over so having a basic idea works better for me anyhow!

I stopped counting around the 11th of November. I'm doing fine, haven't gained a pound. I do a mental tally in my head though, does that count? Nothing obsessive and it's really more to do with making sure I've eaten enough these days rather than too much.

It was a relief to stop actually stressing over it all, particularly the calories burned when I was riding the bike or walking, how fast did I go, what was the pace, how far... I find I enjoy it much more now. Plus I hurt my toe so I was forced to take things slower. That helped me realise it's not so much exactly how many calories I burn, but that I just get out and do something, anything is better than just sitting around...

I don't count either one.  They became serious issues for me, like you, and I became borderline disordered.  Working with a nutrition therapist, I'm now learning to eat when i'm hungry and stop when i'm full and have a healthy relationship with food.  I've gone from a size 18 to a size 10 (and I lost weight over Thanksgiving week) and my 10's fit better this week than they did last week.  And this is without drastically changing what I eat.  Just how much.  Although I do eat much less fast food because I find I just don't crave it like I used to. 

I've also learned to separate exercise from diet.  This was critical for me because in the past I only exercised when I was dieting, which if you think about it, was tremendously counter-productive.  I now exercise because I like the way it makes me feel and I like what it does for me, and if I never dropped another pound it doesn't matter, i'll keep exercising.

Yeah, I don't count, either. I did obsessively from October 21 until about November 8, but then stopped since I found I couldn't eat as much as I used to anyway. It is much more enjoyable now, and I'm stil losing at a considerable rate. I hated trying to find the exact food item I ate, etc.

I haven't been counting for a few months now. Over the summer when I first started the sight I needed to count to get my weightloss started and eat less. I haven't had the internet at home for several months and wasn't able to talley in the computer like I was use to so I stopped. It was too hard to talley while I was at work and then just guess at dinner. I was still able to loose. Maybe not as well but still lost. I just did what some others have said; eat healthier and only when I was hungry and exercised. I even did fine over the holiday. I didn't loose for a few days when I was eating a little more but I didn't gain.

I will also track for a day or two on paper when I find that I am not loosing like I think I should to make sure I am in the correct range of calories (not too low or too high). This always helps me.

Now that I have the computer back, I will try to go back to tracking because I enjoy being able to look at everything and make sure I got enough protein and such. :)

Before I reached my goal I always counted calories. Eventually  I didn't have to because I developed sensible eating habits and knew what foods not to eat.  Now that I've reached my goal I don't need to count calories.  I'm much more relaxed w/ my diet,  I just eat sensibly and exercise regularly.

lol i only count half the day.
i count the calories i burn at the gym, simply because the machines do it for me.
i count the calories that i eat for breakfast, lunch, and any snacks during the day.
but for dinner, since my mom cooks and no one in my house is on a diet, i don't count that. i don't know how much of what my mom puts in the food. i just count the rest of the calories in my day so that i can pretty much be prepared for anything at dinner.

I do not count calories or journal.  I have made a small few changes over the course of 4 months and average losing 1lb/wk.  I wake up at 5:45 am and either walk the dog for 45minutes or do exercises at home.  I tape Margaret Richard's Body Electric and also do 20min of Gillad.  These are a good mix of cardio, strength training and floor exercises.  I have lost 15 lbs and my clothes are looser.  I make sure I eat fruits, green veggies, high fiber grains daily.  I also started eating every 3 hours and that really helps the cravings.

Sample day:

Breakfast

Kashi go lean & Kashi hearts cereal mixed- 1 cup

1 C skim milk

1/2 of banana

Snack:

Dannon light blueberry yogurt

1/2 cup mixed frozen blueberries & 4 frozen strawberries

Lunch:

Whole Grain Tortilla

2 slices Turkey breast

Letuce & spinach leaves mixed

1/2 red tomatoe & 1/3 sliced Cucumber

10 grapes

Snack:

Homemade low cal Banana bread (140 cal)-recipe from Denise Austins book-Eat Carbs Lose Weight

Dinner:

Talapia- palm size- lightly breaded and oven baked

Mix green beans, cauliflower, diced yams- tossed 1 Tbsp Olive oil and oven baked at 400 for 20 min.

Omg I'm really obsesssed with counting calories and I hate not knowing sometimes how many calories something is like when I go to parties or a place that doesnt show how many calories is on the product.

I started using this site during the summer to help make my ED easier = bad bad bad bad BAD! I had already been logging my food on paper for almost a year, but when I discovered that I could count not only what I was eating but how many cals it had and how much I burned off, it was heaven-sent. This made me spiral even further into my disordered tendencies, and I became so obsessed with counting that all I could think about literally ALL DAY was when I could log what I was doing, how much cals I thought an activity (even stuff like hanging out with friends, I kid you not) was burning, everything. It got really unhealthy, but once I realized that keeping track of everything so strictly was causing me to be even more unhealthy, I quit cold turkey. I did gain, but I think that's because I'm more conscious of what I eat and how that balances with what I burn. I think learning all about it during my deepest ED days helped me also learn how to count in a positive way. So no, I no longer count but I still keep track in a sense. 

I don't count. I should but I just estimate. I don't eat between meals. I know breakfast is around 500 cal for me. Healthy Choice for lunch around 300. That leaves about 800 for dinner. Long as I eat broiled fish or chicken or similar, and veggies. I'm close enough to 800. I've counted exact a few times and ended up at either 1400 to 1600.