Calorie counting

[VNV]

Do pros count calories?

Whenever I see an IFBB's site where they show their daily meals, it's just the food--there's no data like carb/protein/fat breakdown, or total calories. Do they just have a general idea on the number of calories and just just eat until they're full?

For years I broke down things into a spreadsheet with tons of detail, but lately I've begun to think I should just try to eat clean, get lots of protein in, and eat more or less depending on the mirror--not some magical number of calories that's 16x my body weight or 18x my body weight or whatever. Yay or nay?

 

[Moen]

Search for 'eating when hungry' and thou shallt get loads of reading material !

 

[7_Deadly_Sins]

Calorie counting is the so teadious and not worth the stress at all.
Just eat, but of course measure your food to get a general idea...like 1/2 cup oats or w/e dont just go pouring. lol
Then after a while you can eye ball it.

 

[forcedreps13]

For me and my clients, I always begin with protein intake. Depending on the intensity and type of training, the intake will be anywhere from 0.8 gm per lb of lean muscle mass up to 1.5/2.0 gm per lb of lean muscle mass. Carb intake (again depending on the I and the T of training) will be anywhere from 1.0 gm to 3.5 gm of lean muscle mass. Fat intake could be anywhere from 0.2 up to 0.5 with an emphasis on poly and mono type fats. Of course, you could always use the "deck of cards and fist" method. A deck of cards would represent a protein type food as far as portions goes ( 20-30 gms protein per serving). The fist method would represent your carb intake. If you ball your fist up, then that's the amount of carbs (fiberous) that you would intake and be consuming around 10-12 gms typically. I hope this helps