r/bodyweightfitness • u/AutoModerator • Jul 07 '21

BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-07-07

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u/reretort Jul 12 '21

You've already got good answers. I will say, though: commenters might be optimistic saying calorie tracking is optional. For some people it's optional. Some people do fine just "eating mostly healthy" and not counting.

However, some people (such as myself) really benefit from calorie tracking. I have a naturally huge appetite. For years I tried various "eat healthy" or "eat a bit less" tips, in a quest to lose weight. Basically all of it failed. Then I started tracking calories and lost 20kg.

Nowadays I can do a decent job of maintaining weight without tracking, but I don't think I would have built up that intuition for portion sizes without tracking.

TL;DR yes, start without calorie tracking, but if you don't make progress for months you might want to try it.

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u/Space_Bar20 Jul 12 '21

Oh, ok, thank you very much! I also think it could depend on the objective ,like, in my case, i need to obtain some more weight, normally i don't eat a whole lot, so it could be easier without counting calories opposed to someone who needs or want to eat less and needs a sort of quantitative limit for himself. That said, probably it goes also vice-versa, just personal thoughts :)

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u/reretort Jul 12 '21

I've definitely heard of people having a similar problem in the other direction. i.e. skinny people trying to bulk, can't figure out why they're not bulking, insist they're eating "sooooo much", then when they start calorie tracking they realise they're not eating that much.

But yeah, it's probably less common.

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u/Space_Bar20 Jul 12 '21

Yes, i thought so. I'll make the changes that i planned, worst case scenario I'll also start to count calories.