I've been getting into shape recently and thought I'd take it to the next level and shift the last of my stubborn fat. I thought I'd grab a calorie counter app to help and every single one had creepy as hell privacy policies. It seems every one tracks you and peeks at stuff on your phone like cookies and browsing habits. Does anyone know of a basic bare bones tracker that doesnt track you or push ads on you or should i just use a notepad?
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Notepad, for so many reasons.
Just use a spreadsheet if it’s not too time consuming. Counting calories is one of many tools, sometimes maybe just journaling what you eat on paper is just as good, as long as you’re also monitoring your progress every two weeks or so.
Make small changes, monitor for a few weeks. If too much loss, balance it out. If you’re not losing, then adjust. It’s a marathon, a non-stop continuous improvement process.
And congratulations on taking charge.
Just use a notepad ! Keep it as close as possible to where you prepare food.
Nope. The understanding of calories is based on a faulty premise. It's not about the amount of energy that is released when one burns the food. It's abaout the quality of food. Meat Fat is good for you. Processed snacks are not. The processed snack may well have less calories than the fat. so be it.
You can use pen and a notebook. Record how you feel during the day which reflects your food choices. I did this for two years straight with great results back in 2000 after reading Arnold's modern encyclopedia of bodybuilding.
Yea, a calculator
Pen and paper.
Eat meats and veggies, work out regularly, no seconds, don’t worry about calories.
All apps spy on you.
How bad do you want the service?
What are you willing to trade?
I'm not an app person, I purposely keep as many apps off my phone as possible. Why not go old school and get a current book, a physical one, not Kindle or computer based, and do your own calorie counting on paper? Just a suggestion.