Making You Aware of the Calories You Don't Consider

When people are tracking their calories there are a few common things that can get easily overlooked.

The main culprits for this are things like oils we cook with, condiments we add to our plate mayo/ketchup, butter on bread, other spreads peanut butter, jam, milk and sugar in teas, fruit juices and other non-zero calorie drinks.

These things are often not even considered or seen as relevant when people are tracking, there is no awareness that they could even be a problem.

But you can easily overconsume calories in the form of these things alone. They matter just as much as our meals.

So you need to track all of these things as well. No exceptions.

Typically, just by removing some of these unnecessary calories, you can help create your deficit without altering the meals and volume of food you actually consume.

Again this reiterates the importance of recording every ingredient you use when cooking.

Not only does it increase the accuracy of your tracking, but it will educate you on the calorie content of things and it will open your eyes to some of the things that you previously overlooked.

Swapping regular soft drinks for the zero calorie versions

Reducing the milk and sugar you have in your hot drinks or even just reducing the number of them you have a day

Using low fat mayo/cheese

Using low calorie sauces or dressings

Basic good cooking habits like grilling things, or using 1 kcal spray to fry things

These are little changes you can make that aren’t going to impact on your portion sizes or the foods you are eating, but they can still alter your daily calorie intake significantly

All of this is going to make it easy to adhere to and less of a challenge when it comes to “dieting” because you’re not all of a sudden going to be starving or eating bland foods you don’t enjoy – but you will be consuming fewer calories!