Tips from a fitness pro - Tip No. 5: Calories and journaling
Am still here in Tokyo. Quite busy in the office and shall wrap up my work before I fly back home tomorrow. I haven't been great (no exercise since I got here) but I haven't been bad either... Had lots of fresh fruit for breakfast and a cup of yogurt each morning. No eggs, no ham, no sussage... I have been ok for lunch, but last night at dinner between some fishy fish and veggie tempura, I chose to have deep fried veggie tempura and a cup of plain cold rice. Cannot wait to get back to my normal healthy life in Vancouver!
Here is the 5th tip from Raphael:
5. Calories and journaling -- I receive lots of e-mails from people telling me that they eat healthy foods but are still unable to lose body fat. In most cases they're consuming too many calories. It doesn't matter how healthy your nutrition program is if you're eating too much.
It's important that you first find maintenance calories. Maintenance represents the amount of food you consume without any change in your weight. This will take some experimentation and some effort but you'll also need to keep a journal and document your meals and total calories.
Sounds like a lot of work? No worries, you only have to do this for a few weeks. After that, you'll have your personal formula for success.