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If you don't want to track your calories intake per meal 1) Prepare your food before hand 2) Eat the same meal often, so you only have to figure it out once.

If you don't want to track your calories intake per meal 1) Prepare your food before hand 2) Eat the same meal often, so you only have to figure it out once. I didn't bother counting calories. Just figure out the calory content for a typical serve and just counted that. In the end its the same thing, but just less administration at eating time.:)

tzs 11y ago
Another interesting approach that can simplify things is to track calories when you buy them rather than when you eat them. For instance, suppose that on Monday you go to the grocery store and buy a 3 pound ham (100 calories per 85 g serving), 1 half gallon of whole milk (8 servings at 160 calories per serving), a loaf of sliced bread (20 slices at 100 calories per slice), and a bottle of ketchup (33 servings of 20 calories each). You record in your food log 5541 calories for Monday. Tuesday you buy no food or drink, just consuming stuff you previously bought. So you record 0 calories for Tuesday. Wednesday, you eat breakfast at home, and then for lunch you buy a Son of Baconator from Wendy's (650 calories), and a 20 oz Pepsi (250 calories) from the vending machine at work. Dinner comes out of your fridge. So Wednesday you log 900 calories. ...and so on. This kind of log is useless for determining exactly what or how much you ate on a particular day, but over time your average daily calorie purchase will be very close to your average daily calorie consumption. This is probably not a good approach when you are trying to make a change in your eating habits and need to know exactly what is going on day to day, but once you've gotten settled in your new eating habits and just need to make sure you aren't drifting off track this can be a good approach.