Does anyone count their calorie intake on a daily, or weekly, basis?
I eat fairly healthily, but could lower my general food intake now I'm not riding so much (knee issue)
I see on food packaging that a serving is, for example, 60g. I've never actually weighed a 'serving' out to see how small it is.
And we all know that a bottle of wine or a few beers in the evening doesn't get added on to the intake total, don't we...
I used to but got board with it. I'm very careful about carbs so for instance I would weigh portions of rice, porridge, pasta. This has two benefits, controlling portion size and reducing waste. My wife guesstimates and there is always too much which gets binned.
I'm not sure how much weight I've lost over how long. At one point I'd reached 88kg, today I'm 69.5kg.
At around the 75/76kg it became very difficult to lose more. Then I changed my diet. I learned about what stimulates the body to store food as fat and why it does this. I also learned to eat according to my activities.
My view is my body is an engine which needs fuel (food). Provide the correct fuel and it will perform well and use all the fuel (food) and won't try to store it. The wrong type of fuel or too little will leave your body looking to protect itself. If the body is regularly stressed by these two it looks to lay down fuel stores for future use - these it stores as fat.
It's possible to increase your calorie intake and reduce weight. The point is to eat the correct calories so as to avoid forcing the body in to storing fuel as fat. Reducing calorie intake and eating the wrong foods can result in weight gain