Is Counting Macros Better Than Counting Calories?
by Bobby Joe Smith
If you are trying to learn how to lose weight and keep it off, then chances are you have already stumbled across the importance of counting your macronutrients each day.
Macro counting is the latest trend in the fitness world.
But is the old advice of "calories in versus calories out" still king when it comes to weight loss? Or can you eat as many calories as you choose so long as you get the right macronutrient split?
Today's article will find out, and provide you with a few useful dieting tricks for good measure!
Most first-time dieters have no idea what macronutrients actually are. Despite sounding like a technical term, it simply refers to the categories of food you consume each day. These are limited to protein, fat and carbs.
1. What Does Protein Do?
Protein will help you to build more muscle, which is great if you have started going to the gym a part of your new healthy diet. But the benefits don't end there, as it will also help you to reduce hunger and junk food cravings, as well as temporarily boosting your metabolism.
Needless to say, protein is your best friend out of the three macronutrients and should be consumed every day.
2. What Does Fat Do?
Much like protein, fat plays an important role in the muscle building process. You see, without the correct levels of testosterone and cortisol in the body, we could eat as much protein as we wanted and train as hard as possible only to see lackluster results. Fat is responsible for regulating these hormones, so don't ignore it.
3. What Do Carbs Do?
In the early part of the 21st century, celebrity culture made carbohydrates the new bad guy of the nutrition world. As fads like the Adkins diet took off, people all over the world were misled into believing that the human body stores excess fat every time we eat bread. Of course, this is untrue. Not only that, but carbohydrates play a vital role in any fitness routine, because without them you will have no energy to train!
These myths often steer people down a path of extreme diets, but blaming one food group for fat storage is completely incorrect. As such, you should never cut carbs from your daily diet!
So do you have to count calories when you are counting macros? Do calories even matter anymore?
As you may have guessed, calories still rule the roost when it comes to weight loss.
By getting the right amount of each macronutrient, you will undoubtedly experience a better response to your training and it is a good way to boost the results of your diet. But your calorie intake is still the bigger picture.
Losing weight is all about calorie intake. While making changes to your macronutrient split will help your weight loss results, those results won't happen if you are still consuming too many calories per day.
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Title: Is Counting Macros Better Than Counting Calories?
Author: Bobby Joe Smith
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Keywords: calories, diet, weight loss, exercise, fitness, health
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