How to Hit Your Macros Without Eating the Same Thing Every Day

Hello Ziddis! Have you just started taking your fitness seriously? 2025 already seems scary to be called our year but here are a few things that can help us upgrade. Food is what we will be looking at today. No, you do not need to have boring food to get fitter. Understanding elements of food like macros and micros and their weight in our plates can help us get fitter quicker.

What Are Macros?

Macros are the short form of macronutrients. Macros are the three nutrients that our body needs in large amounts for sustenance. These three are: proteins, carbs and fats. Each of these nutrients plays an important role in our overall health and fitness.

• Protein builds and repairs muscles
• Carbs give us energy
• Fats help cell growth and hormone functioning.
• With this team work our body survives and flourishes.

Macros, short for macronutrients, are the three key nutrients your body needs in large amounts: protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Each plays a crucial role in your overall health and fitness goals. Protein repairs and builds muscles, carbs provide energy, and fats support hormone function and cell growth.

Macro Nutrition

Macro nutrient rich meals are important especially if you are bulking. Think of your plate as a pie chart. Three fourth of the plate will be filled with macros nutrients. Here is how you can spice up your macro nutrition game:

• Proteins: Proteins can never bore you because of the range of foods you can have to gain proteins. From chicken to tofu to dals, proteins are everywhere. You just need to load up more on these.
• Carbs: Rice, flour, potatoes, sweet potatoes and more are carbs. If you want to gain you have simple carbs and if you want to lose weight have some complex carbs like oats, quinoa or sweet potatoes.
• Fats: Fats are often known as villains but a fitness enthusiast would know which fats can help. Nuts, dry fruits, peanut butter, salmon and avocado are some of the healthy fats that can help you in either gaining or keeping you satiated and helping you lose weight.

Calculating Macros

Calculating macros is the building block to having a diet that supports your goals. Making sure that you calculate the macros your body needs to survive and lose or gain muscle and mass is very important so that your workout feels supported.

Here’s a Guide to Calculating Macros

• Understand your BMI
• Understand your fitness goal basis the BMI- lose, gain or maintain
• Split the calories and macros according to the goal
• Install a calorie tracker and feed in the food you eat and the quantity
• Check how you are performing with regard to your eating habits.

To effectively hit your macros, it’s essential to first calculate your needs.

Macros for Weight Loss

Proteinous foods are better known as the macros for weight loss. If you want to lose weight, it is important to create a calorie deficit that enables you enough energy to burn your calories but less than the required calories to add to the weight. Loading half of your plate with proteins can help in weight loss. Even complex carbs like quinoa and oats help as the macros for weight loss. Here are a few recipes that use the macros for weight loss.

• Protein Buddha Bowl: Toss some grilled chicken on the bed of quinoa add some roasted veggies and drizzle some low-calorie dressing of your choice.
• Breakfast Smoothie: Blend chia seeds, fruits, oatmeal and some honey for taste
• Home-made protein bars: Using peanut butter with oats as the base you can easily make protein bars of your choice.

Takeaway

Hitting your macros goal every day is not as tough as you may think. The tough part is not going over and above or getting bored and the solution is by switching up ingredients and seasonal harvests always. Keep your taste buds happy as you sprint towards your fitness goals. Who said healthy eating should be boring?

Sources:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/iifym-guide