We all want to feel that we’re unique and that there’s something special or different about us. The difficult reality is that, barring serious illness or disease, our bodies are all more similar than different, and what most of us need to do to lose weight is generally the same. The most useful information for losing weight relates not to who we are, but what we’re doing.
Building a healthier lifestyle almost always requires breaking some unhelpful or unhealthy habits, but routines related to eating and exercise (or lack thereof) are notoriously resistant to change.
Understanding our eating is one of the most difficult things to do. And if you want to lose weight, it’s helpful to know a thing or two about calorie counting. As a supplement to LUMME’s kCalculator Automated Calorie Tracker, we’ve provided some useful guidance, including some basics on counting calories to lose weight and answers to some more burning and complex questions.
We know how valuable food journaling can be for raising our awareness and providing information that we can use to shape our dietary habits and weight, but the high burden of the activity creates huge gaps in understanding about what we do on a day-to-day basis. It’s this lack of visibility that creates a fundamental roadblock to positive behavior change and long-term success.
It turns out that the most popular method of food journaling isn’t the only way to calculate your calories. Bite-based estimates used by LUMME’s smartwatch app are not only scientifically proven, but can actually be more accurate than human-based estimates, even with the aid of calorie information.
A wealth of information that you can use to understand and improve your eating patterns is waiting to be unlocked. All it takes is wearing your smartwatch on the hand that you use for eating. It may feel strange at first, but most people get used to it quickly.
Are you guilty of eating too fast? Eating too quickly is a common cause of overeating. It takes about 20 minutes for our bodies and brains to register the food we consume. When we eat too quickly, it increases the likelihood that we’ll eat past our natural satiety signals, giving us that physical discomfort of feeling stuffed.
How many times have we convinced ourselves that major changes were necessary to achieve better health — only for our convictions to fall apart almost immediately? With our 2021 Top 10 Guide to Curb Overeating we add some important guidelines: pick one or two things to work on at a time, and keep your bar for daily success low. Consistency matters! Eventually, these will build into nice routines and everyday habits!
It’s not what you think! As technologists and behavior change experts, we break down decades of illuminating clinical research into the plain and simple truth. Understand why the odds are stacked against us, and what you can start to think about to put them back in your favor.
The principle of measurement is pervasive in every aspect of our lives to manage and improve the outcomes that we care about. That’s why food journaling/calorie tracking is a long-standing and proven strategy for behavior change in weight loss. It’s a form of measurement that raises our awareness and factors into our weight.
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