Counting Your Nutrients
The Hack You’re Missing for Your Waistline
If you crave sugar all of the time, there are simple solutions to DRASTICALLY improve those cravings with the amount of nutrients you eat. This is known as “tracking your macros.”
No it won’t be hard.
This way of eating is all about eating enough proteins and fats and limiting the carbohydrates down to a ratio that turns down the cravings for bread, sugar and other junk foods.
A first step can be as simple as downloading a free app to track what you eat. With a little practice, you will master this in 6 months to a year enough to eyeball the food you should eat without being so rigid. How do I know this?
By having done it and living this way myself.
"Macros" = macronutrients — the nutrients that provide calories:
Protein – builds and repairs muscle, keeps you full (4 calories per gram)
Carbohydrates – your body's main energy source (4 calories per gram)
Fat – essential for hormones, skin, and brain health (9 calories per gram)
Calculate Your Daily Calorie Needs
This depends on your:
Age
Weight
Height
Activity level
Goal (lose fat, maintain weight, or build muscle)
Set Your Macro Ratio
Decide what percentage of your daily calories should come from each macro, based on your goal.
Common starting point:
Fat loss-
This would be about 40% protein, 30% fat, and 30% carbohydrates. (Popularized by the fad diet called The Zone Diet.)
Make Adjustments
If you’re going over on fat or under on protein, you can shift your food choices:
Add chicken, fish, tofu, or Greek yogurt for more protein
Choose oats, fruit, or whole grains for carbs
Add olive oil, nuts, or avocado for healthy fat
With a bit of practice, tracking your food will take away the cravings for junk. I often tell people “our bodies are so smart, when you don’t feed it proper nutrition the body will crave sugar to meet the demand for energy, telling you to “make glucose”. When you feed your body the nutrient dense meals it needs, it will stop demanding quick energy foods to try and take care of your needs to keep going.
Your body is like a bank, you can only borrow from its storehouse for so long before it comes back overdrawn.
For women, this health deficit can look like belly fat, peri-menopause, lack of energy, thyroid issues, and weird hair loss and weird hair growth.
For men this health deficit can look like male breast tissue, flat bottoms, belly fat, hair loss and a diagnosis of low testosterone.
To learn more about macros, find my resource guide here and download it FREE.
Given the massive amounts of processed foods pumped full of hormones, it’s a wonder everyone doesn’t get cancer by 35. Turning your health around takes small steps, but these build upon each other and can give you a long full life where you just might feel better at 50 than you do at 40. I know because I have had this happen with my own health as I gradually made improvements.
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Remember we are all BIOINDIVIDUAL, what works for one does not work the same for another.
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