6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Count Calories

I talked to Aaptiv for this article about why counting calories might not always be the best way to reach your healthy eating goals:

You might be focused just on what you look like, but your mental health matters, as well. “Counting calories shifts the focus from the actual food and places it on its caloric value,” says Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN. “Rather than looking at the nutrients [that] the food can provide, counting calories places value on the energy that the food delivers. This can lead to dangerous restrictive eating patterns.”