Tired of counting calories on fitness apps?
Here’s a simple and effective alternative
With so many mobile applications at our fingertips, offering interesting insights into the food we take, it is hard to resist ourselves from trying them. But sometimes even after keeping our calorie intake in control, ensuring the right macro proportions, burning daily prescribed calories for 6 months or even 12 months, many of us still end up struggling with our fitness goals. And we are left wondering, where did we go wrong after all?
Well, probably, at the very beginning when we thought health, devoid of any subjectivity, is plain mathematics equation. When we started looking at all our meals through the macro filter and forgot about the various cuisines and flavors and stories associated with the traditional dishes!
No doubt technology is a boon for all of us in all the spheres of life including health. But it’s better to keep a check on our relationship with it. Ensuring that it is “serving” us and not “enslaving” us.
If you are someone who enjoys food, is healthy otherwise (with no lifestyle diseases like diabetes, thyroid, hypertension etc.), leads an active to semi-active lifestyle (play a sport/workout daily/complete 10000 steps in your daily routine without making an effort) and you just want to lose some extra kilos/inches to become healthier, here’s the good news — you can ditch all those mobile health apps that define how many carbs, fats, proteins you should have in your breakfast, lunch and dinner!
If you want you can keep some of them for tracking your “activity” but they are best avoided to monitor your food intake. Food should be fun to have and not something we fear or feel guilty about, after having.
Alright. Now, let’s look at a fun and easy way of bringing discipline into your lifestyle. You can post this 6 point tracker on your wall and score yourself against it, every night before going to bed.
Here are the six points you need to keep track of -
- Eat only homemade food/snacks
- Sleep between 10–11 pm daily
- Wake up by 6 or 7 a.m. (Ensure 7–8 hrs of continuous sleep)
- Exercise daily for min 30 min (aim for 45–50 min)
- Do not eat white refined sugar
- Do not eat anything ready to eat (or anything out of a packet)
That’s it. These 6 habits are enough to take care of your 70–80% of fitness goals.
Following is a snippet of how your tracker might look like —
Try to score a min of 4–5 on this scale initially and, then gradually move on to a perfect 6. Once you start following it you will see results within 2 weeks.
Better digestion, better sleep, clearer skin, lesser sugar cravings and you need not miss out on any of your favorite dishes.
Simple and Effective.
Don’t wait anymore, try it and let me know how you feel!
Remember
“Health is enjoyable”, much more than that big juicy and spicy burger your favorite food joint is selling!
Until next time…
Stay Happy! Stay Healthy!
Take Care.
