Sorry if this Q has been asked before, I'm a newbie and still finding my feet here, I am also a newby to exercising and watching what I eat, well I am yet to watch what I eat, so would love information on how to count my calories.

Someone on here wrote that a good way to help with your eating is to count calories so if you could shed some light that would be fantastic.

Some good news, I have been working out for 7wks and have lost 8kgs so far, I am well overweight and have lots to go, but I did expect to have lost a bit more by now and I know that I haven't because of my eating so help please... thanks

Fitday.com is a free journal and calorie counter. I found it useful when I started but have read that their estimate are a littel off but it is still pretty close and good. For example, if you eat an apple and enter it in, show the calorie and count it. Enter all the food and you get the daily total, don't forget the drinks as well and the excercise that you do. It is not exact but a free tool to get close.

Usually if you have an awesome eating plan you don't need to count calories

We live one life with time limiting the amount of things we are able to put our energy into. I dare say that training yourself to count calories might be a waste of that energy and time-- if not even developing a culture that might be harmful to your soul by opening a gateway to a different type of worry.

If you develop a lovable system, then you wont have to focus so much on diet control and calorie balance. U can then place your faith in the system and forget about the remainder calories