MinnMan

I've never done formal calorie counting, but with time I have educated myself about the caloric content of the different foods that I eat. Reading the labels of various processed foods can be very eye opening, and my knowledge of these keeps me from resorting to eating too much of that sort of stuff. tortilla chips, for example.

(**And I think you all already know, the large "Calories" value on most processed food labels is usually based on a ridiculously small "serving size".**)

Calorie counting is harder if you eat in restaurants with any frequency. There are periods of time when I do a lot of business travel, and don't have complete control over where I will be eating or what will be available. Certain cuisines (especially chinese) can be shockingly caloric. Also, there are lunches on work days.... these days I usually bring my lunch to work, and so control what I'm eating, but there is usually about 1 day/week where that doesn't work, and I go to one of the local salad places (Sweetgreen, Crisp&Green) that has healthy options and they also tell you their calorie counts.)