Please Stop Counting Calories to Lose Weight!

So today I'm going to do a nutrition video for you guys. And a lot of times people think that nutrition has to be incredibly complicated. I am a huge believer and supporter of the fact that nutrition does not have to be, especially if you're going to stick to it long term. We need to know that the

strategy behind it is always going to be about manipulating calorie intake. So I have a way that we can do this without necessarily even having to think about it because all we have to do is look. And what we have to look at is our plate. So, what we do is we look at the

plate and we start to look at it in sectors. Okay? And I want you to divide this plate into three. So, for those who forgot how to do this in math back in grade school, you draw a line down here. You draw a line off to the side. You draw a line over there. There's three

equal pieces here on this plate. The first thing you want to do is make your selection of protein. Okay? Now, I don't care if you're a vegetarian or a vegan and you need to substitute protein sources. Instead of steak and tuna and chicken, you want to put in lentils or quinoa or chickpeas, whatever it is that

you want to put here. That's fine. You're used to it. You know what to do. You know your strategy for protein. Oneird of your plate. I'm going to show you how I do this myself every night. Still, the next thing you have is you have your remainder of the plate, which for me is going to be occupied by

carbohydrates. Now, in the carbohydrate sections here, you have a couple options. Number one, you want to first do one thing. You want to take one of these sections and you want to in your head divide it in half. So what I want you to do is either if you really know you need to lose a substantial amount of