5 Issues with Calorie Counting You Need to Know About
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
5.0 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
When you're at the grocery store popping things into your cart, do you turn the box or bag or package over to the nutritional facts, look at the calories per serving ONLY and then decide whether or not to toss it into your cart?
Do you add up the number of calories you eat a day without paying attention to the amount of protein, fat, and carbs you eat?
Is it your goal to eat as few calories a day? And do you think that eating less will help you finally reach your goals?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, sister, I have news for you.
Counting calories and calories only are extremely flawed and will not help you reach ANY sort of goal you have. And honestly, it will end up doing way more harm than good.
And in this episode of the Embrace Your Real podcast, I'm going to explain to you WHY. I actually have five things in particular that I want to share with you that explain why calorie counting is not the solution for reaching your body goals.
P.S: If you want to play around with macro counting, but aren't sure if you 100% want to commit yet, I have a free macro counting ebook that helps you calculate your starting macros.
I would LOVE to challenge you to download this ebook and try macro counting for AT LEAST 1-2 weeks and see how you feel. Maybe its even just counting your macros for breakfast and lunch for 1-2 weeks, that's okay.
If you trying to change your body composition and are struggling, then please, please, please, take me up on this challenge. You will see results in just those 1-2 weeks.
You can get this free ebook by heading over to juliealedbetter.com/free-ebook.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there beautiful human you're listening to Embrace your real with me Julie Ledbetter a |
| 0:05.4 | podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I dish you a dose of real |
| 0:11.0 | talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, |
| 0:15.2 | and unconditionally loving your authentic self. |
| 0:18.0 | Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it, let's go. I have a question for you. |
| 0:25.0 | When you're at the grocery store or popping things into your car, |
| 0:31.0 | do you ever turn the box, bag, or package over and look at the |
| 0:34.5 | nutritional facts and like look at the calories per serving and then only then decide whether or |
| 0:39.6 | not to toss that into your car or do you add up the amount of calories that you eat |
| 0:44.0 | within a day without paying attention to the amount of protein, carbs, and fat |
| 0:47.8 | or maybe you were like me for a decade of my life was it your goal or is it your goal to eat as few calories a day and |
| 0:54.8 | thinking that eating less will actually help you finally reach your goals. |
| 0:59.2 | If you answered yes to any of these questions I I have news for you. Counting calories and calories only is |
| 1:05.7 | extremely flawed and it will not help you reach any sort of goal that you have. |
| 1:09.9 | Honestly, it will likely end up only doing way more harm than good and so in this |
| 1:14.8 | episode of Embrace a reel I'm going to explain why I actually have five things in |
| 1:19.4 | particular that I want to share with you that kind of explains why calorie counting is not the solution for |
| 1:25.4 | reaching your body goals but before I do I wanted to share this super-street |
| 1:29.7 | review it comes from lovely Liza she gave a five-star review and says amazing outlooks. |
| 1:35.7 | This podcast is so great. Julie has a super sensitive way of explaining how you can change things |
| 1:40.9 | in your life for the better. I'm an elementary school |
| 1:43.4 | teacher who has not been really able to take care of myself the way that I need to |
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