I hate counting Calories- any other methods?

I'm not sure you'll be inundated with responses on a website dedicated to calorie tracking, but Happy Tuesday anyway.

But they're unlikely to be a calorie-counting website, aren't they?

I mean, you probably should think about food more often. So often we eat mindlessly out of emotions, habit. The proportion sizes are also insane.

If anything, not thinking about your food choices will likely not help you.

Have you tried any other methods of losing weight?

I followed a very restrictive diet plan in the 80's. Lost a load of weight, ended up skinny, weak, unhappy and with a dislike of broccoli and boiled eggs. Regained all the weight lost (and more).

I tried to tip the calorie balance with long duration, high intensity exercise. Got fitter, stronger and stayed the same weight as I ate more to compensate.

Tried to increase daily activity to tip the balance by swapping a train journey to work with a long walk. Worked for a while and then I ate more to compensate.

Tried intuitive eating. Weight rocketed upwards to my highest ever weight.

Calorie counting plus 5:2 way of eating worked for me though. Lost weight slowly and steadily, retained/gained lean mass, got fitter/stronger and now maintaining comfortably.

You could try 5:2 in the way people not on a calorie counting site do it perhaps? i.e. only counting calories on the two fasting days and "eating normally" on the other five days a week. Maybe that would reduce the feeling of daily food obsession?

Calorie counting plus 5:2 way of eating worked for me though. Lost weight slowly and steadily, retained/gained lean mass, got fitter/stronger and now maintaining comfortably.

You could try 5:2 in the way people not on a calorie counting site do it perhaps? i.e. only counting calories on the two fasting days and "eating normally" on the other five days a week. Maybe that would reduce the feeling of daily food obsession?

And this ^^

Im low carbing rather well at the moment after spending months just not really managing to log and finding logging counter productive. Not sure how this will turn out long term, Im guessing a slow tack back to logging once Im at a weight I like. But its my fitness pal not my calorie counting pal actually

No matter what diet you choose it still comes down to you need to be in a Calorie deficit. The thing is if most of us on this site were able to do that without counting calories we wouldn't have got fat. Even something like weight watchers is just another way of counting calories

There was this really good diet that I heard about, where you have to eat three pounds of carrots first thing in the morning, then you eat whatever else you want. It didn't really work out for Garfield, but I'm sure you could give it a go.
Seriously, just get over it, calorie counting sucks for the first few weeks but then it's a habit and a good one at that.

One option would be doing a crap ton of cardio and burning a LOT of calories. I did this. I used to aim to burn 500+ cals a day by running. It worked for awhile. If I had been at least estimating calories, I would have lost weight faster.

Another option is coming up with a routine for food. Determine how many calories you need...and eat the same few meal options every single day. I've done this too. Well, just for breakfast. I ate oatmeal every morning for a year and a half. Needless to say, I stopped eating oatmeal for awhile after that.

It took me awhile to lose weight, b/c I wasn't strict with the calories. Now that I have lost the weight...I started strength-training, and that has made a huge difference for me and not having to micromanage my calories.