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?

Welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. Today we're going to talk all about food tracking. So I've got it sectioned off into three categories that I'm going to cover, but I'm going to give you guys some tracking tips. And we are going to touch on why macros and calories don't match up in your food tracking app.

So if you're using My Fitness Pal or whatever app you use, there might be days that you

notice that you have hit your macros, but not your calories or vice versa.

We're going to talk about why that happens.

And then we're going to talk about tracking mistakes and things to avoid when tracking mistakes

that people make that can cause plateaus and stalls and weight loss and things, again,

to avoid that can cause macro OCD and, you know, macro tracking burnout, basically. So we're going to touch on all

three of those things today. Should be a very helpful episode, short and sweet, but lots of

good takeaways for you guys. But before we dive in to the show, I wanted to remind you that

the March shred will be open for enrollment on Thursday.

So I will link the program details in the description for you guys to check that out.

So the first thing that we're going to talk about, we'll just start with why calories and

macros don't match up in my fitness pal.

So I will hear this question a lot.

And it's actually one of the FAQs in my programs when people will say,

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