In 2019, I was all about counting calories, the number of calories in the food I ate, the amount of calories I burned while working out, calories, calories, calories. Steve O’Connor suggested I work out without my watch, and I replied that I can’t because I use it to count calories.
In 2020, I started working out sans watch and calorie counting. I stopped counting the calories I consume. And I am finding that I am much more focused on the exercises w/o the distraction of my obsession with calories. I am enjoying my workouts again.
Good advise, Steve. Thank you.
FitAfter50 
Totally agree. Counting calories distracts us from more vital awareness of all that we are and do physically in a day – what we are demanding of the vehicle that is our body. How we actually feel. It also distracts us from the experience of experiencing exercise. In a sense, it is objective while all else is subjective. Calorie counting is “Western Medicine”, if you will. Being in a state of physicality is “Eastern Philosophy”. Zen, if you will.
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