Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. I hope everyone's having a lovely day.

I have had a lovely weekend. This is Sunday when I'm recording this. Not sure where anyone

needs to know this. But today's episode is all about not wanting to track calories or basically

not needing to track calories. And I'm going to go through

a few different things in this episode, but primarily I'm going to focus on how you can lose fat or

maintain your current shape, stay in shape, without having to track calories. And tracking calories seems to be

the go-to for fat loss nowadays. It's almost like rare within at least like the evidence-based

echo chamber that someone would lose fat without tracking. And it's a great choice for some and it's

certainly very eye-opening for some.

And when I say you don't need to track calories, I don't mean calories don't currently still do,

but you don't need to track calories to lose fat. And it might not be the right choice for you.

And there's various reasons for this. It might be as severe as you become very obsessive and

it becomes very negative to you in your life. Or it might be as kind of harmless as like,

you just find it a bit tedious and you don't really want to do it, which kind of is me.

Like I find it a bit tedious. I don't want to do it. I'm not motivated to do it. So I don't like

doing it that way. And then when you add to this, the

inaccuracies of tracking and then the fact that when people become quite obsessed with the numbers,

they start stressing it out over 100 calories here and there. And at best, this is just a bit

silly because of how inaccurate tracking calories is.

And then at worst, it can completely ruin your diet.

Like the amount of diets that are ruined because someone's gone over their calories by 100 and they think that they've ruined everything and then they give up.

When in reality, they're still in a deficit and they're still losing body fat.

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