Does anyone know how to ACTUALLY track calories?

[MisterGinger]

I was using (and paying for) cal ai for a while but it just sucks and it’s not accurate at all. How am I actually supposed to track calories? Do I need to bring a food scale everywhere I go? Is there a secret untapped method/app that’s easy and accurate? Someone pls help.

 

[Astronomical]

What I do is basically a guesstimation. Get the idea of how much calories certain types of food are by portion like meat, veggies, rice, whatever. After that point and some getting used to it you can just take a guess and you'll be able to get a rough estimation of how much you're going to consume. Another thing I do is round to the nearest hundred if food labeling has some random bs like 160 calories. That ends up with you potentially eating a bit less in the long run