My macros tracking experiment

You know I like to keep things stupidly simple. 

So, I fought tracking my nutrition for a long time. 

I don’t want to weigh my food. 

I don’t want to let the nutrition label run my life. 

I don’t want to feel guilty about treating myself to a few cold suds. 

But, I finally let my curiosity win. 

And tracked my nutrition all of January. 

I figured the worst-case scenario, I would get a better understanding of how much I’m actually eating as I get through my 40-Day Forge. 

Couldn’t hurt, right? 

Okay, so I used the 1stPhorm App. 

And it was actually much simpler than I thought because it only tracks our macros:

  • Calories
  • Protein
  • Carbs
  • Fat

You enter your target weight, it makes the calculations for you, then you enter everything you eat for the day. 

After 30 days, here’s what I learned:

  1. I wish I had done this years ago.
  2. It’s easy to enter the food you’re eating into the app, especially since we all kind of have a rotation of the meals we usually eat (there is ZERO weighing food).
  3. I was waaaay off (too low) on the amount of protein we need (1g per every pound of your ideal weight).
  4. Hitting my macros numbers kept me feeling full.
  5. My diet had a noticeable effect on my body composition – I can tell in the mirror that my arms and shoulders look bigger.
  6. On weekends, it was easy to adjust my lunch or dinner macros to account for a few mocktails (I was no alcohol) so I could still hit my macros.
  7. Keeping track became a game – I would constantly try to hit all four macro numbers on the nose. I said some version of this most days, “I’ve got X carbs to give, so I’m gonna crush [delicious food].
  8. I ate much cleaner and healthier so I wouldn’t screw up my score – again, it became a game.
  9. I lost a few lbs.
  10. I’m kind of addicted to using the app. Hey, there are a lot worse things to be addicted to!

Again, we use 1st Phorm’s App, which I highly recommend ($5/mo if you pay for the entire year). 

My big takeaway: I cannot stress how big of a game-changer tracking our macros is. 

And what a huge difference it makes. 

STAY STRONG, 

Jeff 

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