October 8, 2024 • 10 mins
Today I talk about my history of counting calories to lose weight. And how for the past three years I dont count calories anymore. I also don’t use any fasting apps. It has been life changing for me. And it could be for you
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello there, welcome into another episode of the Fasting Guy podcast.
That's me the Fasting Guy, So glad to have you here.
This will be a really really quick episode. I was
just cleaning up apps off my iPhone. I don't know
if you guys do that. From time to time. You'll
just add apps here there, and you'll use them for
(00:23):
a while and they just kind of stay there, and
then one day you're like, boy, I got all these
apps I should clear up. So I'm in my you know,
you have different folders, and I have a health folder,
and I'm going through the health folder and I see
this app called fit mo f I T M O
H about what is this app? I do not remember it,
(00:44):
so I open it up and it is a TDE
tracker and it took me back to the days of
when I was counting calories to lose weight. And so
what you would do is you would say, hey, I
want to lose a pound a week or two pounds
a week, and then every day you log how many
calories you eat in this app, and you log what
(01:06):
your weight is, and you do that every day, and
after seven ten days something like that, it starts figuring
out you're averaging this many calories over a seven day period,
and your weight either went up or down or whatever.
And now it starts recommending to you how many calories
you need to eat every day to lose that weight,
(01:30):
and it'll just update it every day. Every day it'll
update it and go, you should be eating this many
calories to lose this much weight every week. And it
just took me back to a time when my health
and fitness journey was so different, like I was, you know,
I was changing when I was eating. For sure, I've
always done that. It's always been like I've never except
(01:52):
in the very beginning when I was taking that way
back in twenty thirteen. When I first started, I was
taking that pink drink Plexus, and so I would eat
anything I wanted. I was just eating less of it.
But after I got through that and I moved into, hey,
we should probably try to eat different stuff. You know,
I've talked about as a ton on the pod, but
we had the vegetarian phase, the vegan phase, the raw
(02:16):
vegan phase, the fruitarian phase, the paleo phase, the low carb,
the keto, the carnivore, the keto slash carnivore. You know,
I've just experimented with all the different ways of eating,
but there's always been a component of calorie counting. And
(02:39):
so no matter what I was doing, whether I was
doing keto or vegan or vegetarian or carnivor, I'm always
been counting calories. And then you know, this November, as
I'm recording this, it's October twenty twenty four, in case
you're wondering, coming up on this November will be three
years since I started this journey to just make small,
(03:02):
consistent lifestyle changes that are not hard, that don't stress
me out, that I don't worry about. And you know,
my goal is to lose a certain amount of weigh
over like a five year period. That's the plan. But
you know, if it takes six years, I'm fine with it.
If it takes seven, I'm fine with it. If it
took four, I'm fine with it. But basically, it boils
down to losing thirty or thirty five pounds a year.
(03:25):
We hit that goal year one, we hit that goal
year two, We've already at the ninety pound mark this year.
Last time I weighed. Now I'm traveling and I don't
have a scale, and I have a weighing three weeks.
But when I left my house, I weighed and we
were at ninety pounds. So technically, if I didn't lose
another pound, we would be perfectly on par for losing
(03:47):
thirty pounds a year. We'd be at ninety pounds in
three years. But the remarkable thing is is I've not
counted a calorie. I've not counted one single calorie, not one.
I just try to eat really high amounts of protein.
I try to eat moderate to lower carb. I kind
(04:09):
of intermit fast naturally. That's nothing I stopped doing. I
don't fire up the fasting tracker to try to hit
sixteen hours or hit eighteen hours, or hit fourteen hours
or hit twenty two hours, just kind of naturally see
what it feels like the next day. And usually it's,
you know, twelve hours on those low side and twenty
hours on the eye side, and it can be anywhere
(04:29):
in between. Some days it's some weeks ago and it's
like sixteen seventeen every day. Some weeks it's like, boy,
we're hitting like almost twenty hours every day, and it's
just you know, just when you're eating the right kind
of food. It's amazing how you don't have to think
about calories. You don't have to think about is it
time to eat yet or not. Those things just kind
of work themselves out. So you know, I don't have
(04:52):
a lot to add in this episode. It was just
a light bulb moment. It took me back to, you know,
the past eleven years of this weight loss journey and
all the different things I've done, and all the things
I've tried, and the one consistent thing through all of
them was counting calories. And you know, it's just ironic
now that I think the happiest and most pleased with
(05:14):
my progress, and the most confidence I've ever had that
my progress is permanent, is when I decided I'm not
counting calories anymore. I just don't count them. I just
try to eat the right kind of food. Don't always
eat perfect. You know, yesterday, you know, I try not
to eat rice and potatoes and things like that, But
(05:36):
yesterday I had MAYI MAYI over a bed of white
rice and my continuous glucose monitor, you know, it ran
out like three days ago, so I didn't have it on,
but I shuddered to think of what it did to
my blood glucose. For twenty four hours. But you know,
I mean it's just that's normal. Like I don't I
don't deprive myself where it's like I could never eat
(05:58):
anything ever like I do. You know, I don't know.
Five six weeks ago, I had ice cream. I knew
it was gonna wreck my blood sugar. I knew it'd
probably cause a little bit of mental issues with sugar
for a few days. But I mean I hadn't. It
had probably been another eight or ten or twelve weeks
before that since I had it last time. Like, I
(06:20):
just rarely eat it. But if I want to eat
it once or twice a year, you know, I don't
stress about it. I don't add calories and go we
gotta cut. You know. I just moved back into just
eating the right things again and go, Okay, that was
a little treat. Now we go back to eating right,
and we'll just be consistent about eating right for weeks
at a time, just weeks and weeks at a time.
(06:41):
We'll just be very consistent about eating ripe and then
all out of the blue, I'll be like, you know what,
I want to burger and fries. I just haven't had
a burger and fries with a bun, and I had
a burger earlier today. I had a burger with a
slice of cheese on it, and I had that earlier
today with the deal pickle spear, but like a full
(07:03):
blown burger with a bun and some fries. You know,
I don't know spent a few weeks for I don't
know how long ago it was, but I had one.
I was like, oh, I don't want to burn in
fries today, but I can't even remember when it was.
It's been so long ago, and I don't know when
it will happen again. So you know, I have all
these things, but I don't ever count a calorie anymore.
(07:24):
And it's and I'm not I'm not beating the door
down on weight loss. Like there's no magazines calling me
up asking to do feature articles about my amazing weight loss,
because I'm convinced that permanent weight loss is not amazing.
Permanent weight loss is slow, steady, consistent, and kind of easy.
(07:47):
Not easy in the beginning because you have to really
really retrain your brain into hey, we're just making small changes,
you know, We're we're gonna intermit it fast, but we're
not gonna clock it. We're not gonna have an open
We're not gonna force ourselves to do twenty two hours
every day, twenty hours every day, sixteen hours every day.
There maybe days when we'll wake cut up and it's
been twelve hours and we're just hungry, and we're gonna
(08:10):
honor that, and we're going, man, this is genuine hunger.
This is real hunger. It doesn't matter what my app says,
my fasting app says, this is genuine hunger. So I'm
gonna eat some real food, some actual food, some high protein,
low carb food, and we'll see what the rest of
the day brings. And it's so remarkable because that's how
(08:34):
thin people live. Then people have ice cream, sometimes they
have burgers and fries. Sometimes they wake up early and
eat sometimes, and sometimes they don't eat until four in
the afternoon and they forget to eat. It always used
to shock me when my thin friends would it'd be
like four in the afternoon. I remember I had this
partner in the business I was in. She was a partner,
(08:56):
and it used to shock me if you like two,
three in the afternoon and she'd walk by my off
and go, I just realized I forgot to eat today,
and I'd be sitting there shocked. I'd be like, what
do you mean you forgot to eat? Who forgets to eat?
But it happens to me now when I'm in the zone.
I'm eating really the right foods. It's very high protein,
lower moderate carb type foods. You know, I don't think
(09:20):
about eating it. Maybe I wouldn't say that I forget
to eat. I would just say I don't think about it.
She would say I forget. I would just say I
don't think about it. So that's what I wanted to
leave you with today. I don't have anything else to add.
I hope your health and weight loss journey is going well.
I've been on the road for a few weeks. I'll
be back home in about another ten days, and we'll
(09:43):
weigh and see how I fared during my travels. That's
always the mystery. I can tell you this. I've cinched
up the belt another notch, so I don't know what
the pounds will say, but my waist is at least
one inch smaller than it was when I left coming
over here on this trip, so it'd be interesting to
see what the scale says. I won't stress a it
either way. I hope you're doing well. I appreciate our
time together. I hope that you do as well, and
(10:05):
we will talk to you next time.
Hello there, welcome into another episode of the Fasting Guy podcast.
That's me the Fasting Guy, So glad to have you here.
This will be a really really quick episode. I was
just cleaning up apps off my iPhone. I don't know
if you guys do that. From time to time. You'll
just add apps here there, and you'll use them for
(00:23):
a while and they just kind of stay there, and
then one day you're like, boy, I got all these
apps I should clear up. So I'm in my you know,
you have different folders, and I have a health folder,
and I'm going through the health folder and I see
this app called fit mo f I T M O
H about what is this app? I do not remember it,
(00:44):
so I open it up and it is a TDE
tracker and it took me back to the days of
when I was counting calories to lose weight. And so
what you would do is you would say, hey, I
want to lose a pound a week or two pounds
a week, and then every day you log how many
calories you eat in this app, and you log what
(01:06):
your weight is, and you do that every day, and
after seven ten days something like that, it starts figuring
out you're averaging this many calories over a seven day period,
and your weight either went up or down or whatever.
And now it starts recommending to you how many calories
you need to eat every day to lose that weight,
(01:30):
and it'll just update it every day. Every day it'll
update it and go, you should be eating this many
calories to lose this much weight every week. And it
just took me back to a time when my health
and fitness journey was so different, like I was, you know,
I was changing when I was eating. For sure, I've
always done that. It's always been like I've never except
(01:52):
in the very beginning when I was taking that way
back in twenty thirteen. When I first started, I was
taking that pink drink Plexus, and so I would eat
anything I wanted. I was just eating less of it.
But after I got through that and I moved into, hey,
we should probably try to eat different stuff. You know,
I've talked about as a ton on the pod, but
we had the vegetarian phase, the vegan phase, the raw
(02:16):
vegan phase, the fruitarian phase, the paleo phase, the low carb,
the keto, the carnivore, the keto slash carnivore. You know,
I've just experimented with all the different ways of eating,
but there's always been a component of calorie counting. And
(02:39):
so no matter what I was doing, whether I was
doing keto or vegan or vegetarian or carnivor, I'm always
been counting calories. And then you know, this November, as
I'm recording this, it's October twenty twenty four, in case
you're wondering, coming up on this November will be three
years since I started this journey to just make small,
(03:02):
consistent lifestyle changes that are not hard, that don't stress
me out, that I don't worry about. And you know,
my goal is to lose a certain amount of weigh
over like a five year period. That's the plan. But
you know, if it takes six years, I'm fine with it.
If it takes seven, I'm fine with it. If it
took four, I'm fine with it. But basically, it boils
down to losing thirty or thirty five pounds a year.
(03:25):
We hit that goal year one, we hit that goal
year two, We've already at the ninety pound mark this year.
Last time I weighed. Now I'm traveling and I don't
have a scale, and I have a weighing three weeks.
But when I left my house, I weighed and we
were at ninety pounds. So technically, if I didn't lose
another pound, we would be perfectly on par for losing
(03:47):
thirty pounds a year. We'd be at ninety pounds in
three years. But the remarkable thing is is I've not
counted a calorie. I've not counted one single calorie, not one.
I just try to eat really high amounts of protein.
I try to eat moderate to lower carb. I kind
(04:09):
of intermit fast naturally. That's nothing I stopped doing. I
don't fire up the fasting tracker to try to hit
sixteen hours or hit eighteen hours, or hit fourteen hours
or hit twenty two hours, just kind of naturally see
what it feels like the next day. And usually it's,
you know, twelve hours on those low side and twenty
hours on the eye side, and it can be anywhere
(04:29):
in between. Some days it's some weeks ago and it's
like sixteen seventeen every day. Some weeks it's like, boy,
we're hitting like almost twenty hours every day, and it's
just you know, just when you're eating the right kind
of food. It's amazing how you don't have to think
about calories. You don't have to think about is it
time to eat yet or not. Those things just kind
of work themselves out. So you know, I don't have
(04:52):
a lot to add in this episode. It was just
a light bulb moment. It took me back to, you know,
the past eleven years of this weight loss journey and
all the different things I've done, and all the things
I've tried, and the one consistent thing through all of
them was counting calories. And you know, it's just ironic
now that I think the happiest and most pleased with
(05:14):
my progress, and the most confidence I've ever had that
my progress is permanent, is when I decided I'm not
counting calories anymore. I just don't count them. I just
try to eat the right kind of food. Don't always
eat perfect. You know, yesterday, you know, I try not
to eat rice and potatoes and things like that, But
(05:36):
yesterday I had MAYI MAYI over a bed of white
rice and my continuous glucose monitor, you know, it ran
out like three days ago, so I didn't have it on,
but I shuddered to think of what it did to
my blood glucose. For twenty four hours. But you know,
I mean it's just that's normal. Like I don't I
don't deprive myself where it's like I could never eat
(05:58):
anything ever like I do. You know, I don't know.
Five six weeks ago, I had ice cream. I knew
it was gonna wreck my blood sugar. I knew it'd
probably cause a little bit of mental issues with sugar
for a few days. But I mean I hadn't. It
had probably been another eight or ten or twelve weeks
before that since I had it last time. Like, I
(06:20):
just rarely eat it. But if I want to eat
it once or twice a year, you know, I don't
stress about it. I don't add calories and go we
gotta cut. You know. I just moved back into just
eating the right things again and go, Okay, that was
a little treat. Now we go back to eating right,
and we'll just be consistent about eating right for weeks
at a time, just weeks and weeks at a time.
(06:41):
We'll just be very consistent about eating ripe and then
all out of the blue, I'll be like, you know what,
I want to burger and fries. I just haven't had
a burger and fries with a bun, and I had
a burger earlier today. I had a burger with a
slice of cheese on it, and I had that earlier
today with the deal pickle spear, but like a full
(07:03):
blown burger with a bun and some fries. You know,
I don't know spent a few weeks for I don't
know how long ago it was, but I had one.
I was like, oh, I don't want to burn in
fries today, but I can't even remember when it was.
It's been so long ago, and I don't know when
it will happen again. So you know, I have all
these things, but I don't ever count a calorie anymore.
(07:24):
And it's and I'm not I'm not beating the door
down on weight loss. Like there's no magazines calling me
up asking to do feature articles about my amazing weight loss,
because I'm convinced that permanent weight loss is not amazing.
Permanent weight loss is slow, steady, consistent, and kind of easy.
(07:47):
Not easy in the beginning because you have to really
really retrain your brain into hey, we're just making small changes,
you know, We're we're gonna intermit it fast, but we're
not gonna clock it. We're not gonna have an open
We're not gonna force ourselves to do twenty two hours
every day, twenty hours every day, sixteen hours every day.
There maybe days when we'll wake cut up and it's
been twelve hours and we're just hungry, and we're gonna
(08:10):
honor that, and we're going, man, this is genuine hunger.
This is real hunger. It doesn't matter what my app says,
my fasting app says, this is genuine hunger. So I'm
gonna eat some real food, some actual food, some high protein,
low carb food, and we'll see what the rest of
the day brings. And it's so remarkable because that's how
(08:34):
thin people live. Then people have ice cream, sometimes they
have burgers and fries. Sometimes they wake up early and
eat sometimes, and sometimes they don't eat until four in
the afternoon and they forget to eat. It always used
to shock me when my thin friends would it'd be
like four in the afternoon. I remember I had this
partner in the business I was in. She was a partner,
(08:56):
and it used to shock me if you like two,
three in the afternoon and she'd walk by my off
and go, I just realized I forgot to eat today,
and I'd be sitting there shocked. I'd be like, what
do you mean you forgot to eat? Who forgets to eat?
But it happens to me now when I'm in the zone.
I'm eating really the right foods. It's very high protein,
lower moderate carb type foods. You know, I don't think
(09:20):
about eating it. Maybe I wouldn't say that I forget
to eat. I would just say I don't think about it.
She would say I forget. I would just say I
don't think about it. So that's what I wanted to
leave you with today. I don't have anything else to add.
I hope your health and weight loss journey is going well.
I've been on the road for a few weeks. I'll
be back home in about another ten days, and we'll
(09:43):
weigh and see how I fared during my travels. That's
always the mystery. I can tell you this. I've cinched
up the belt another notch, so I don't know what
the pounds will say, but my waist is at least
one inch smaller than it was when I left coming
over here on this trip, so it'd be interesting to
see what the scale says. I won't stress a it
either way. I hope you're doing well. I appreciate our
time together. I hope that you do as well, and
(10:05):
we will talk to you next time.
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