(27F, 5”7, SW: 135, GW: 125)
Background on me: I have a naturally lean physique and was underweight for most of my life due to genetics combined with my very active lifestyle. Recently (end of 2018 until present) I started my career which is consultancy/desk job within long hours, meaning I’m sedentary for 10+ hrs a day. This combined with getting older and my metabolism slowing, means I started to gain weight. Though I am still within the healthy/average range for my height, the weight I’ve gained is all fat and doesn’t look good where I store it. I’ve picked up running again and calorie counting with myfitnesspal.
In person, women colleagues and friends criticize my calorie counting as being part of “toxic diet culture” and that it’s completely unnecessary/a myth that it is a beneficial thing to do when losing weight. When I look up articles on calorie counting the first to come up is “why you shouldn’t calorie count” and “calorie counting is unhealthy” etc.
So, I ran an experiment on myself: I didn’t count calories but generally “felt” like I was eating well in a day and not overeating. I exercised by running 5 miles every other day. No weight loss at all. Did this for like 4 months and was only able to maintain my weight.
Then I started counting calories (1350 to lose 1lb per week) combined with running 5 miles every other day and immediately lost a pound, then another and another (I was 135 before I started this experiment).
Counting calories has made me realize how unnecessary much of my eating was. I still factor in treats like pop tarts every now and then, but it’s incredible to me how much I was overeating by before, while thinking I was eating well.
Why do people in general (e.g friends, the media) discount calorie counting so much? I feel bad for being a part of “toxic diet culture” just because I want to maintain a certain weight that isn’t unhealthy or underweight.
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