Adjusting Your Nutrition When Your Workouts Change
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
5.0 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Have you been eating the same way for months… even though your workouts look completely different now? If you've added training days, increased intensity, switched from cardio to strength, or moved into a new phase, your nutrition needs to shift with it. In this episode, I walk you through why keeping the same macros year-round can keep you stuck and how to recognize when your body is asking for more fuel.
I break down the signs you might be under-fueling, what to adjust when your workouts increase, and how to approach different phases like building, maintenance, fat loss, and deload weeks. You'll learn how to match your nutrition to your current training so your workouts and your food actually support each other instead of working against each other.
Here's what you'll learn:
• Why eating the same macros year-round can stall progress
• The signs your body needs more fuel beyond just hunger
• What to adjust when you add workout days or increase intensity
• How to fuel differently during building, maintenance, and fat loss phases
• Why under-eating during a strength phase limits your results
• How to approach deload weeks without drastically cutting calories
If you want clarity on how to calculate and adjust your macros as your workouts change, check out Macro Counting Made Simple at macrocountingmadesimple.com.
And if you want your training structured in a way that naturally cycles through building, maintenance, and deload phases, head to movementwithjulie.com to get started inside the Movement With Julie app.
If this conversation helped you realize your nutrition might need to shift with your training, go listen to Why Adjusting Your Macros Matters When You Increase Your Exercise next. It will help you take what you learned here and apply it in a clear, practical way so you can fuel your workouts with confidence.
If you want more from me, be sure to check out…
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Follow me on Instagram: @juliealedbetter | @embraceyourreal | @movementwithjulie
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Movement With Julie | App: https://sale.movementwithjulie.com/
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Macro Counting Made Simple Online Academy: https://www.macrocountingmadesimple.com/
Website: www.juliealedbetter.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, beautiful human. You're listening to Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Ledbetter, |
| 0:05.4 | a podcast where I empower you to just be you. With each episode, I dish you a dose of real talk |
| 0:11.4 | and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving |
| 0:16.6 | your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real. Let's get and let's go. |
| 0:27.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real podcast. My name is Julie Ledbetter |
| 0:33.1 | and I am so grateful that you are here with me today. I want to ask you something. Have you been |
| 0:37.3 | eating the same way for months? |
| 0:38.9 | Like maybe even years, regardless of what your workouts look like, maybe you've been pushing |
| 0:42.5 | yourself harder in your workouts now than you were six months ago. |
| 0:45.9 | Maybe you added an extra workout day. |
| 0:47.9 | Maybe you just came off a rest week, but your nutrition has stayed the exact same. |
| 0:52.4 | If that's you, I need you to hear this, that our bodies are not |
| 0:56.1 | static. They need change as your activity changes. And when your nutrition doesn't shift with your |
| 1:01.8 | workouts, you end up stuck wondering why you're not seeing the results that you want. And so today, |
| 1:06.5 | we're going to be talking about why your nutrition needs to change when your workouts change. And more importantly, what to actually do about it. We're going to be covering how to recognize |
| 1:15.3 | when your body needs more fuel, what to adjust when to increase, how often, how |
| 1:20.5 | intensely you're working out, how to eat during different phases, and why under-eating |
| 1:25.5 | while you're trying to build strength is one of the biggest |
| 1:28.1 | mistakes that you can make. But before we dive in, I want to share this review. She gave a five-star |
| 1:32.4 | review and said, I've used movement with Julie for a few years, but I've never been a podcast |
| 1:36.4 | girl until I recently started 75 hard. I've loved listening to Embrace Ural during my outdoor |
| 1:42.2 | workouts. It's really spoken to me where I'm at in this place in my life with my physical, mental, and spiritual journey. |
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