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Your first step should be that you make sure you’re eating enough to supply your energy expenditure. If you’re hungry, your body is going to sue food, so make sure you’re well fed every day. If you’re trying to do a diet, do not exaggerate: low a couple of hundred calories per day, not thousands.

It is impossible to know exactly how many calories you’re eating or saving every day, but you can make calculations to obtain an estimate and maintain it. Following a diet, you can find the obvious causes, like those days you do not have time for lunch and then not eat until 2 pm, and then end up eating more for the rest of the day. Or those days when you do a lot of exercises (the usual plus a large walk plus extra, for example), still restricts much of what you eat. If you feel compelled to eat twice the next day, simply because you should be private on the previous day.

Or you could find a seemingly innocent snack that adds a lot of calories to what otherwise was a “good” day (a pint of ice cream can be eaten in 10 or 15 minutes, but it adds 1,000 to 1,200 calories, the equivalent perhaps half the calories of the day, often taking a candy dish coworker can add hundreds of calories). If you care to include many details in your daily diet, such as the amount of times you eat per day, and what you are doing and how you feel when you eat, you will be able to find the keys that make you eat more. One lesson of the CBT is to learn to avoid those keys or teach-yourself-new behaviors in response to certain triggers.

Use the following tools to help you monitor your intake of energy, your energy expenditure and your needs.