What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros podcast. As always, I'm your

host Mike Milner and today we are talking about Macros. In particular, I want to talk about who should be

tracking and who shouldn't be tracking when it comes to macronutrients and so

just to give like a brief overview I don't want to just assume that all of my listeners know what macros are, but pretty much when we're looking at tracking macros we're talking about so like everybody kind of understands calories, you know, you're trying to

figure out how many calories you're consuming in a particular, you know, week or on a daily

basis or that sort of thing. Macros are just a way to break those down into protein, carbs, and fats, which basically those are the three areas that calories can come from, like we can't get calories from any other source other than alcohol which some people call the fourth macro but I don't but anyway

So you've got protein carbs and fats that make up your macro nutrients and when we look at tracking macros we're talking

about like specific targets for how many grams of each we should be consuming so we look at

you know protein how many grams of protein how many

grams of carbs and how many grams of fat we should be consuming on a daily

basis. Now a lot of people come to me and they have a bad taste in their mouth from a previous experience with macros.

And usually that's because the program that they were on was a very like cookie cutter.

It was either like a macro calculator that didn't factor in like individual needs or individual variables or it was just a like kind of one-size-fits-all approach where everything was very templated everything was

very like automated systematic that sort of thing and so I often get people who are like

hey you know I want to do coaching but do I have to track macros and the

answer is no you don't have to track macros so I just want to like do an episode

to help everybody understand like certain situations where

tracking is a good idea and certain situations where tracking is a not so good

idea and I also want to make this clear that one of the follow-up questions is like, you know, do I have to track every

single day? And I think this is where the industry, and I'm speaking very generally right now, gets things incredibly wrong because

it seems to be like you either believe in macros or you don't, like there's this battle between macros and intuitive eating and I think

what most people get wrong is that even those who do track macros having some

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