Welcome to Empowered Radio.

I am your host, Emma Montgomery, an online nutrition and fitness coach and creator of Shred with M.

Each week we'll talk all things nutrition, training, and mindset.

You'll be able to take my tips and strategies and apply what you learn to see results

with both your body and your mind.

So without further ado, let's jump into the episode.

What's up, guys?

Happy New Year.

Welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. Today we have

got a Q&A, these questions I pulled from my Instagram, and there's seven or eight, I think,

on here I'm going to try to get through as many as I can for you all today. And there's a couple

that I've probably answered before, but they seem to be questions that I always get every time I do a Q&A.

So we'll cover a couple of those anyway.

So the first one is, is it important to count calories or just meat macros?

So the first thing to understand is that when you get a macro prescription, your macros are going to total up to your total calories.

So if you look at it like an umbrella, so to speak, your calories are going to be the umbrella.

And then below that will be your macros. They make up the umbrella. And then below that will be your macros.

They make up the umbrella of calories.

So protein is worth four calories per gram.

Carbs are worth four calories per gram.

And fat is worth nine calories per gram.

So when you get your gram goal for each of those,

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