Ep 91 Do You Need to Count Calories for Optimal Health & Reaching Your Healthy Weight?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ve probably heard this common diet advice a million times “it's all about calories in, calories out”. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You go on diet plans that give you an allotted calorie amount you can eat, and then you obsess over nutrition facts labels and find you’ve turned into a human calculator adding up numbers all day and spending your energy making sure you don’t go over that number.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s quite exhausting, isn’t it? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ve been told it's all in the name of health… but is it?? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And do you really need to count calories to achieve YOUR healthy weight? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you actually ever asked yourself, what actually IS a calorie? What does it do? And what actual importance does it have in my overall health if I’m not attaching it to size?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’ve been stressing about counting calories or have ever felt guilty for eating a snack that has ‘too many calories’, this podcast episode is for you!! </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode sheds light on the actual role of calories as it relates to your health, and will help you change the way you evaluate the foods you choose to eat based on more than just the number of calories.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll also understand how our bodies use calories, the importance of learning to listen to our hunger and fullness cues, and what happens to your health and weight when you eat in alignment with your body’s needs.</span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode we cover: </span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">[2:25] What a calorie is, how it functions within the body, and how your bod