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The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Perfect Macro Calculator

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Flexibledieting, Fitness

5635 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we walk you through exactly how we created our new macro calculator. We go deep into the research and data we used to come up with the calculation. Also, we go into the exact step by step equation that the app uses to calculate the macros. Like literally each single equation that goes into getting that end number!

Download the new app here!

Find Your Macros App 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the flexible dieting lifestyle podcast.

0:11.4

I'm your host, Zach Rush Lowe.

0:12.7

I'm with my co-host, Miguel Blakutes, and today is an interesting episode.

0:16.4

So there are a lot of macro calculators you can find just by doing a Google search all over the

0:23.6

internet.

0:24.6

And some are good.

0:27.2

Some are really bad.

0:29.1

But I've yet to find one that is really great.

0:32.4

One that really takes into account a lot of different factors and has the attention to detail on the

0:39.3

back end to have an equation that actually puts you in a great starting position and then

0:45.6

has the education attached to it in order to put you in a position to understand what these numbers

0:50.9

are telling you and how to make small tweaks here and there in order to

0:54.5

fine-tune them and have it even more detailed for your individual needs. And one thing that

1:01.3

Miguel and I have been working on and the FDL team has been working on for a very long time is a

1:06.5

macro calculator. And it's a process. It's one of those things where you're trying to give a

1:15.0

general description. So you're getting some data and then you're having the technology in place,

1:21.5

the app, to be able to take that information and give you detailed macros back based on the information that you're given.

1:29.5

So that's a tall task to do.

1:31.8

And it takes a lot of fine-tuning, a lot of playing with.

1:35.6

And it's really cool that as you're listening to this podcast right now, we've finalized

1:41.4

something I think is amazing.

1:43.4

It's to find your macros app and it's a one-stop

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