bad advice for a beginner who thinks eating rice based dishes is the epitome of healthy eating.
this eventually becomes true once you understand the basics and apply new healthy habits for long enough to understand what it feels like but someone who is just beginning needs more guidance than that.
definitely do count your calories every day for a week or two just to fully understand the caloric value of the foods you eat (most people guess wrong.) after that it's fine to stop. shoot for 2k/day and adjust based on how active or inactive your lifestyle is. its hard to not eat mostly carbs.
even if it's just when you're hungry, you will easily pass 3k calories daily since shitty fried foods arent going to be particularly filling.
im not saying never have any fun ever, im just saying you need to form a better idea of what youre eating and what a healthy balanced diet looks like
