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The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

Our Best Macro Tracking Hacks/Tips

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Show Notes/All Resources from Episode:

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Time stamps:

  • 2:56 - What happens if you don’t track your macros or are simply eyeballing?
  • 4:54 - How do I track accurately? Do I need a food scale?
  • 5:04 - Food scale vs. measuring cups
  • 9:08 - MyFitnessPal
    • 14:21 - The ratio
    • 16:45 - Link a graphic of cooked vs. raw meats
    • 10:40 - Tracking foods with food labels
    • 10:57 - Tracking foods (fresh fruits and veggies) without food labels
    • 12:27 - Tracking raw vs. cooked meats
    • 17:08 - What do you do if you scan a label and what you see isn’t what’s on the food label?
  • 18:41 - Cooking and tracking food that you cook in bulk
  • 22:45 - Tips and tricks for guesstimating your macros
  • 24:33 - Under vs. over estimating depending on your goals
  • 26:32 - Eating out and tracking your macros
  • 30:45 - Tracking alcohol
  • 36:01 - Feeling self conscious about tracking around family/friends

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Flexible Diding and Lifestyle Podcast.

0:13.3

I'm your host, Zach Rushlow.

0:15.4

I am with my co-host, Miguel Blakut.

0:18.0

Today we're going to be talking about how to track your macros. So episode

0:24.0

three, we learned about how to figure out your macros. Episode two, we figured out what the

0:29.6

heck are macros. Episode one, we learned about the history of flexible dieting and why it's

0:34.0

pretty dope and why it's not really a diet and it's literally a framework that

0:38.5

is saying educate yourself and thus the more educated you are the more flexible you can be with

0:43.8

your diet so today like I said we're going to teach you guys how to actually track accurately

0:49.3

but before we begin take a screenshot post this on your Instagram story, tag us, let me know, tag

0:56.0

at M. Blacute, and then tag at the flexible dotting lifestyle. We will repost it. We love it.

1:01.9

It just is the coolest thing. We'll send you a DM saying, thank you. It's just one of those

1:06.4

things like we just value your attention and attention is like the currency nowadays and if you have

1:12.6

somebody's attention especially in a busy world like this the where everybody is just asking for

1:18.3

your attention and trying to steal your attention it's it's it's it's it means the world it's truly

1:23.1

truly cool so Miguel man how you doing I'm good how good. How about yourself? I'm doing well. I'm doing

1:29.8

well. So, Miguel, I'm going to let you start off with talking about how bad we are at

1:38.1

estimating how many calories we're taking in. Remember, if we kind of recap a little bit,

1:43.1

we said that calories are going to dictate whether

1:45.5

you gain weight, you lose weight, or you maintain weight. So it's important that we have an

1:51.2

accurate estimation of what our calorie needs should be, especially if you're wanting to lose weight.

1:57.8

Let's face it, nobody wants to be on a diet forever. And if you are like, hey, from January to February,

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