How To Become A Flexible Dieter

16 Dec 2021

This is going to be a multi part series and I intend to make this coz I see lot of people just shooting in the dark with their fitness plan, they are motivated to be fit and lead a healthy lifestyle but are just doing random thing by listening or reading random articles and thus get random results.

LEGENDS have lead many of you to believe that certain food are bad and there is tremendous amount of misinformation out there. Common guys, you already have many things to take care of let's not make diet stressful when it can be sustainable

A simple solution is to track you food intake for some time I personally suggest to do it once in your life for over a period of time to get to know about the real deal.

Let's come to business end of it,
Whatever food we eat can be broken into three parts or more technical consist of three MACROS, what are they PROTEIN, CARBS & FATS. Now, just like any food we eat macros also have their calorie value and what are they

• 1g Protein 4 calories
• 1g Carb. 4 calories
• 1g Fat. 9 calories
• For example, if your total food intake in a day consist of
• 150g Protein
• 250g Carbs
• 65g Fats

  Then your total calories intake was 2,185 calories for the whole day. Micronutrients also play a important role and are part or the Macros also consist of micronutrients so a. Balance has to be created which I will cover in next part

  Tracking will make sure you get skilled enough to have food without even needing to track macros entire life

  HOW TO TRACK YOUR FOOD INTAKE

  On Wednesday we discussed about the importance of Tracking macronutrients and what they are, Today we will discuss what will you need to get started. You will first need a Food scale and a food tracking app like My fitness pal. Now begin with weighing everything by the gram and uncooked to be most accurate but do not want to measure in volume as it can be inconsistent to weight, Why, well let’s say a bowl or cup of cooked rice, now, the quantity in it will depend on the way you stuff rice in it which is not going to be the same always. Why I recommend to weigh your meat uncooked coz the cooked quantity of food will depend on how long you have cooked it which determines how much water it retains. Since you won’t always cook foods for the exact same length of time, it would be wise to weigh prior to cooking.

  Now, let’s take a practical example so you get a better understanding of measuring food and macros. SO, my daily chicken breast intake is 250gms, now since I split my protein intake throughout the day does that mean I cook chicken 3-4 time in a day?? No, rather I weigh it together and also cook them together and then split it accordingly, you can also split then into pieces separately and cook. Either way is fine, whichever is easier for you.

  Make sure you do not take the stress of measuring even the last few grams of flour or rice as 1-3 grams of difference wont effect much.

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