Episode 14 4 Reasons that I'm not for macro counting

Macro counting is a no-go for me.

Again, macro counting is a way to lose weight that works for some people, but for me, it's just not the way I coach my clients.

It's not how I live.

So if you love macro counting, then this episode may not necessarily be for you, or maybe it can just kinda give you a little insight into other thoughts besides macro counting.

All right, all these reasons are in no particular order, and we will do a little rapid fire.

First reason I am just not for macro counting, it can be done incorrectly pretty easily.

It, ugh, how do I wanna say this? It can be easy to track in your app.

You can be very regular with tracking in your app.

You can track consistently for months, but all it takes is weighing something wrong, guessing something if you just didn't properly measure it.

If you eat out a fair amount and you were just kind of blindly guessing what even the...

Even if it's a restaurant that is listed in, like, the MyFitnessPal index or whatever your tracking app is, some restaurants have an index for all their food.

There's still discrepancies.

So even if you're eating out and say you logged a meal that had its index in MyFitnessPal or whatever your app, and we'll just say for easy numbers that meal was logged at 500 calories.

That is an estimate.

Depending on how it's cooked, who cooked it, your portion could be slightly bigger.

This one particular time could have used more oil, butter, something like that, which can really just add in extra calories.

So you can be doing your part of tracking and still doing it wrong.

How frustrating is that? Number two, tracking macros is easier if you can just scan a barcode.

Pretty straightforward, right? You scan it, all the information pops up, and then, yeah, you still have to weigh, portion out, I guess.

But you don't have to seek the food and search through a library.

You scan, and boom, it's there.

Now, I'm all for making things as simple, straightforward as possible, no matter how you're eating, cooking, choosing to lose weight.

But when it comes to counting macros, if a lot of what you're eating is through a scanned barcode, that means it's in a package.

Not saying everything in a can, a box, a bag, a package is bad.

You can have, you know, frozen fruits and veggies in a bag, a can of beans, a can of tuna.