7 tips to help you hit your macros 👇🏼
Tracking macros is a SKILL you have to get good at. You won’t be an expert overnight! Hitting macros does require that you to learn the basics about nutrition. What foods are a carb, fat and protein. But once you get it, you’ll have this memorized like the back of your hand
Here are a few of my best tips to help you hit those triple 0’s 👇🏼
✖️Enter in your food the night before, especially if you’re new to tracking!
✖️Keep 10-15 foods in your house that are primarily “single macro foods” like a box of cereal for carbs, peanut butter for fats and protein powder. This helps out so much to hit your goal when you’re short on a particular macro.
✖️Start with your protein, then go through and plug in carbs to hit fiber, then add fats and carbs wherever to hit your daily totals.
✖️Try to shoot for 80% nutrient dense foods and 20% fun foods each day. It’s called flexible dieting for a reason!
✖️Myfitnesspal/MFP. This is ESSENTIAL so you’re not writing everything down by hand! This keeps track of everything you eat and also does the math for you. And it’s free. Win win.
✖️BARCODE SCANNER. Within MFP the barcode scan feature is bae. Seriously this makes my life so much easier! There’s no typing in foods, hoping you have the right one anymore. This removes a lot of room for error and takes 5 seconds to add something to your day.
✖️PLAY AROUND. It’s totally normal if you’re planning your day of eating and you go over by a few carbs, under by a few grams of protein. Just go back through your day and dial back how many grams of oats you have for breakfast and add ½ an ounce to your chicken for lunch. This is why it’s so much easier to make sure you hit your macros when you plan ahead, because you can wiggle things around BEFORE you eat them!
If you don’t get it right on the first try, the first day, your first week, that’s okay. YOU WILL FAIL when learning anything new. This is something you’ll perfect with reps. Hitting your macros perfectly takes time and effort.
Need some macro help? Reach out and let’s get you back on track 🤟🏼🖤
7 tips to help you hit your macros 👇🏼