Ode to Calorie Counting
I know there's this stigma regarding calorie counting. Only anorexic girls do it right? Wrong. A lot of perfectly healthy people do it, including men.

I discovered the benefits to calorie counting about eight months ago. I started doing it because I realized that I consumed wayyyy too many calories per day. Each day, a woman only requires 1800 calories a day and a man requires 2000 a day to maintain the bodily functions in good working order. If you consume less, you will lose weight, and if you overconsume, you gain. It's all a basic mathematical equation really.

I particularly enjoy calorie counting because I am secretly a nerd inside and love counting things! I may have an acute form of OCD or something because I count everything I do. It's fun.

For those of you that do not like math, i suggest you try this little trick: round all your figures to the nearest 50 or 100 calories. I always do that. Say I eat a large apple worth 80 calories, I will round to 100. I always round up, and that way I know that the most I consumed one day is 2000 calories, although most likely I will have consumed a whole lot less.

In brief, calorie counting is the biggest step to weight loss. I lost 10 pounds with minimal effort just by counting calories.