Be Exact!

....or at least approximately exact.

Hey my fellow fitness freaks, macro and micomanagers and slackers. This is just a reminder to everyone that you have to take everything you read on a label of any sort anywhere with a grain of salt (or salt substitute if you're on a sodium restriction.)

i've said this before and many other people have posted and already know that the labels on most foods are just approximations or averages of lab tests. Meaning ther can be variations of up to 100-200 calories in foods that are labelled similarly. So give yourself a litte leeway with your intake.

Also, be forewarned things that say 0 Calorie are not actually 0 Calorie...in the U.S., the FDA allows products with fewer than <5 Calories to be listed as 0 Calories. Taken together with the last point, this means that there can be a substantial calorie intake from sugar-free products such as gum, soda and cooking oil. Check the little asterisk next to a 0 Calorie claim the next time you can. Coca Cola's website even lists the calories in so-called zero calorie product such as Diet Coke and Coke Zero. In many cases, these calories are barely worth the time to track but if you've been going on a sugar free binge and haven't been coming any closer to you goals, you might try cutting back on the calorie-free calories.