In order to manage your weight it is important to
track macronutrient intake, eat nutrient dense whole foods (not processed) and eat regularly.
Around a year and a half or so has passed since I actively began skipping breakfast and first started to
track my macronutrient intake.
When people start
tracking their macronutrient intake, they often realize they aren't eating enough protein and / or fiber — which are far more filling than other foods.
If you're not comfortable with
tracking your macronutrient intake, then you don't have to follow flexible dieting.
Not exact matches
For others, it can mean carefully
tracking their calorie and
macronutrient intake for months.
Part II of this post will discuss how I
TRACK my
macronutrients and how I use this information to work out my daily food
intake.
I used to be a hardgainer, but then I started
tracking my
macronutrients (carbs, protein, and fat) and slowly upping my
intake from there.
Keeping a food journal will help you stay on
track with your daily calorie and
macronutrient intake.
Since fat is more calorie - dense, at 9 calories per gram compared to 4 calories per gram of protein or carbohydrates, it's important to
track both your calorie
intake and your
macronutrient balance.
For slightly more advanced lifters who want to
track their calories and
macronutrient intake, pick your primary goal (you should always have a primary goal) and use it to determine how many calories you should be eating per day in order to lose weight.
So what we did was I said, «OK, well, the first thing we're going to do is normalize your calorie
intake and we're going to teach you this way of
tracking your
macronutrients so that if you want something, you can have it and not have it just completely warp your mind.»