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The Kim Constable Podcast

Calories vs Macros: What Actually Matters for Fat Loss?

The Kim Constable Podcast

Kim Constable

Entrepreneurship, Business, Health & Fitness

4.9747 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kim answers a question about meal plans, calories, and macros — and tackles one of the biggest problems women face during fat loss journeys: overthinking everything. She explains why obsessing over tiny macro differences creates unnecessary stress, how food substitutions actually work, and why consistency matters far more than perfection. Kim also breaks down the relationship between calories, protein, carbs, and fat during a shred, and explains why the body responds best to consistency over time. Inside this episode: • Do calories matter more than macros?• Why small food swaps won’t ruin your progress• How to substitute foods correctly in meal plans• The danger of becoming obsessive with tracking• Why consistency drives fat loss results• The real purpose of gradually lowering calories This episode is essential listening for anyone who feels overwhelmed trying to “do everything perfectly.” ✨ Follow Kim Constable online for more real talk and daily motivation: 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@besculptedbykim📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesculptedvegan🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kimconstableofficial🌐 Website: https://www.thesculptedvegan.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the recording. So good to have everybody there as I'm looking at myself on the camera.

0:03.8

I'm now wishing I had to go on and put on some powder because I'm always going to be a bit greasy whenever I turn the camera on. But you know what? I'm not going to focus on what it looks like because none of you care what I look like. You just want to hear the good information to help you get fitter and stronger and healthier and happier. Okay, so Karen Chimes Malin has the first question,

0:21.6

lovely Karen, and she says, hello, she says, question about the macros in the meal plants.

0:27.9

I know that you have said that we are not, that if we are not doing exactly what's listed

0:32.4

in the ingredients to match the calories. Question is, if not matching the rest of the macros,

0:37.1

will that significantly

0:38.3

change the results that we see? I assume that protein is one that we should try to match as much

0:44.0

as we can within that calorie amount. So here's the thing about the macros. The reason why I say

0:50.8

don't worry about matching the macros, just match the calories more than

0:54.7

anything, is so that you don't start obsessing over the macros because I don't know,

0:59.1

Karen, if you have been around for a long time. Actually, I know that you have because I've

1:02.8

seen your name come up before, but you may or may not know that sometimes we have women in

1:08.3

the challenges. Now, nobody in this call, of course, or nobody listening

1:11.7

to the replay, but other women, not present here today, have been known in the past to become

1:17.4

slightly obsessive about things that they don't need to obsess about. And one of those things

1:24.5

is calories and macros. And we have had women in the past,

1:29.0

bless their cottons. Like I am, there's no judgment here in what I'm saying, because I totally

1:33.5

get why this happens. But we have had women in the past who have had to swap out something

1:38.3

in the meal plan and they say, you know, oh my God, like I had to swap out Satan for tofu. And I've just realized that the calories in the say, you know, oh my God, like I had to swap out satan for tofu. And I've just realized that

1:46.9

the calories in the satan are 186 and the calories in the tofu are 184. Will those two calories per day

1:55.5

make a difference to my progress? And or they'll say the macros of my satan air, it's 24 grams of protein, but in the

2:02.8

tofu, it's only 19 grams of protein. That means I'm getting five grams less of protein. Am I not

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