S4 EP9: Let's Talk About Macros
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Why is counting macronutrients a nutrition strategy that you should consider? Why don’t macros get mainstream attention? Where can you get started with macros? These are some of the questions we tackle on today’s episode of the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast with guest Cori Lefkowith. Listen in to hear what Cori has to say about why women continue to struggle with body image and how macros are different from other diet trends.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Why women continue to struggle with body image
- How Cori’s approach to nutrition differs from other diet trends
- Why macros don’t get mainstream attention
- Where to start with macronutrients
- Counting calories
- Finding a balance
- Individual macro calculators
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Carbs
- Getting enough protein
- How macro counting works long term
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | But it's one of these things that when I started researching nutrition, like there's all these |
| 0:04.1 | things of cut this out and cut that out, right? |
| 0:06.2 | This is evil, that's evil. |
| 0:07.8 | You know, you can only do this at certain times. |
| 0:09.8 | And for me, it's like, okay, well, what's at the heart of all these things, right? |
| 0:13.2 | What does nutrition truly boil down to if I look at the fundamentals of it? |
| 0:17.6 | And to me, every time I looked at everything, it all came back to macros. |
| 0:25.7 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people |
| 0:35.7 | achieve their fitness goals? We are an army of hardworking women, |
| 0:41.3 | changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:44.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, |
| 0:47.3 | we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well |
| 0:52.3 | a part of your life. |
| 0:57.7 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:01.7 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:08.1 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:09.8 | I am Kelsey. |
| 1:13.2 | And I am Rachel and this is a nutrition episode. |
| 1:20.7 | Nutrition episode. Oh yeah, nutrition. I love nutrition because I need severe help with it. |
| 1:27.3 | So I love learning more about nutrition. And today we have on a guest that I think you guys are going to absolutely |
| 1:28.1 | love because she is a macro specialist. And if you are like currently alive and have a pulse in |
| 1:35.3 | the fitness industry, you've heard of macros and have probably wondered about it before. |
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