Count your calories accurately

Calorie counting doesn’t have to mean weighing every leaf of lettuce or obsessing over whether your meal is 537 or 542 calories. Learn how to estimate, track and understand calories in real-world food, from hawker meals and restaurant dishes to packaged food and your favourite drinks.

  • Learn how calories actually work and why they matter
  • Estimate calories without needing to weigh every ingredient
  • Understand portions, macronutrients and calorie density
  • Learn how to use AI tools such as ChatGPT and Ventrickle for calorie counting more effectively
  • Know when accuracy matters, and when it doesn’t
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Cut through the food noise

How many calories are actually in your chicken rice? Is that salad really 350 calories? How much oil is hiding in your noodles? Does eating out mean you have to abandon your diet?

The internet is full of calorie calculators, apps and conflicting advice. But knowing how to use a database isn’t the same as knowing how to estimate food.

This course teaches you the principles behind calorie counting, so you can make sensible estimates yourself, without relying blindly on an app or spending hours calculating every ingredient.

You’ll learn how to look at food differently, make practical estimates and understand where your calories are actually coming from.

Whether you’re trying to lose weight, gain weight, maintain your current weight, or simply understand nutrition better, this course gives you the tools to estimate and manage your calorie intake, for a lifetime.

100%
Online

Regardless of where you are located, you may learn anytime, anywhere, at your convenience, on the LTU Education Portal.

MODULAR
BASED

Work through bite-sized sections covering calorie fundamentals, food estimation, macronutrients, AI tools and real-world application.

LIFETIME
ACCESS

Revisit the course whenever you need to. Build your calorie-counting skills through repeated practice and application. Learn using familiar foods and real-world examples, including Singaporean hawker and restaurant meals.

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Course Overview

The Calorie Counting course is split into 4 sections, with 13 sub-chapters.

SECTION 1

introduction

  • Contextualising calories: what calories represent and how calorie management fits into weight change
  • How metabolism works

SECTION 2

the science

  • What is a calorie
  • Energy and the law of thermodynamics
  • Food weight

SECTION 3

the framework

  • The 5-step framework to counting calories accurately and applying it intelligently
  • Protein weightage

SECTION 4

Bringing it together

  • Principles, practice and technology
  • What calorie tracking is and isn’t

YOUR COACH: DINOKANG

dinokang (or commonly known to his clients as NK) has 17 years of training experience under his belt since the young age of 15. He spent the bulk of his career researching about nutrition and debunking false information on the Internet. It was his dabbling in research that dinokang found his passion in educating the public, hence the creation of Lifelong Training University.

In 2019, dinokang competed in the drug-tested International Bodybuilding Championship organised by the Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness Association (Singapore) and emerged Champion in his weight class (Under 80kg) and placed 3rd Overall amongst other International Athletes.

Professionally, dinokang was previously a trainer at Ultimate Performance and is currently the Managing Director of LTU.

A huge advocate of walking the talk, dinokang has produced life-changing results with his clients, largely due to his adaptive and empathetic approach tailored to each client’s style and needs.

count with confidence

Join the 120+ students who have learnt to estimate their calories intelligently.

Upskill anytime on the LTU Education Portal.

  • Learn the principles
  • Practise the skill
  • Make your own estimate

SGD$99

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LTU members pay $49. Please login to receive the member price.

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Frequently Asked
Questions

Whether you’re trying to lose weight, gain weight, maintain your current weight, or simply understand nutrition better, this course gives you the tools to estimate and manage your calorie intake.

It’s particularly useful if you:

  • Have no idea how many calories you’re actually eating
  • Find calorie-counting apps confusing or overwhelming
  • Eat out regularly
  • Want to lose weight without eliminating your favourite foods
  • Want to understand how portions affect calories
  • Already track calories but aren’t confident in your estimates
  • Want to use AI for food tracking without blindly trusting it

Surprisingly, no. There is no specific requirement for this course. Come as a blank sheet of paper, but be prepared to fill it up as we go along. ⁣

Yes, of course you can. ⁣Learn anywhere on the go with the LTU education portal.

Yes. Drop us an email at admin@ltu.sg.

Members of the public are charged SGD$99. LTU members (who have previously signed up for ANTS L1 or ANTS L2) pay only $49.

The course is a fully online course, on the LTU Education Portal.