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I just read people don't need to stress abut macros?

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  • Posts: 61 Member
    yopeeps025 wrote: »

    So you admit that you did it in an unhealthy fashion?

    No, thats not what I was saying. What I meant was when I started, I went down the route of eating fruit, veg and lean proteins but not tracking. I hit a wall and fat loss basically stopped, and someone said to me work out your calories, I was having around 1400/1500cals a day. Which is extremely low for a 230 plus pound man.

    I worked my calories back up and got my calories up to 2900 and slowly progressively started to lose fat. As my body weight dropped I then started chipping away at my macros to lower my intake. I don't see anything unhealthy with that.
  • Posts: 9,603 Member
    I stopped stressing over macros. I cannot eat to numbers.

    I am half-heartedly increasing protein, so I look at it on a weekly basis.

    I'm looking at micros weekly, too, trying to improve my diet.
  • Posts: 1,673 Member
    BJG7_UK wrote: »
    This interests me as I saw it on another post..

    And it made me think, if we shouldn't have to worry about macros then why do we use MFP?

    My mind is blown :-/


    uhhh... calories?

    I've never watched or stressed a macro in my life ... and I'm down 54 total pounds.

  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    A lot of people just count calories. I was generally aware of my macros and used them as a guide to balance out my diet...but I really didn't give a *kitten* about being bang on...I think people worry about a lot of nonsense for no good reason.

    I don't track anymore, so I have no idea what my macro ratios are...nor do I really give a feck. I'm fit, strong, and healthy and eat a well balanced and highly nutritious diet..so meh.
  • Posts: 88 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »

    Yup. I log my food to keep track of the calories. I glance at the other stuff now and then, but don't worry about any of that stuff. Just the calories.
    This ^^
  • Posts: 17,857 Member
    edited July 2015
    BJG7_UK wrote: »

    No, thats not what I was saying. What I meant was when I started, I went down the route of eating fruit, veg and lean proteins but not tracking. I hit a wall and fat loss basically stopped, and someone said to me work out your calories, I was having around 1400/1500cals a day. Which is extremely low for a 230 plus pound man.

    I worked my calories back up and got my calories up to 2900 and slowly progressively started to lose fat. As my body weight dropped I then started chipping away at my macros to lower my intake. I don't see anything unhealthy with that.
    If that actually happened, and you can show it actually happens with your body, you could be collecting a Nobel prize.
  • Posts: 61 Member
    If that actually happened, and you can show it actually happens with your body, you could be collecting a Nobel prize.

    Where can I collect that prize?
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