What are Macronutrients? – Love Your Bod (2024)

What should my Macronutrient split be?

Macros, or Macronutrients are essentially the carbs, protein and fat content that make up the foods that you eat. There are many ways you can split your macronutrients to have great results. Don’t be afraid to experiment with your macros to see if there is a better way for you if you’re finding that what you’re currently doing isn’t working. We have seen people have results with all sorts of macro splits before.

The easiest way to asses what your current macros are and to continue to monitor them is to use a calorie-counting app such as “lose it”. Logging your food and macro counting has never been easier and this information can be critical to your results, especially if you’ve been feeling like you haven’t been having the results that you’ve been looking for.

When following the LYB recipes or EATS program, you’ll find that you’ll end up being somewhere around 30-40% Carbs, 25-35% Protein, and 30-40% Fat range.

This can work well for most people and is a great place to start if you’re unsure of what might work best for you. That being said, here are some other popular macro splits that you can try if you don’t feel like you’ve found your perfect macro match yet.

55% Carbs, 25% Protein, 20% Fat

(High Carb Diet)

This often works well for endurance athletes, people who are naturally lean to begin, or for people who are looking to gain weight.

40% Carbs – 30% Protein – 30% Fat (Balanced Approach)

This can work well for most people. It’s a good place to start if you’re unsure of what might work for you and isn’t very restrictive. If you choose any of the LYB recipes this is mostly where your macros will be at the end of the day. We feel like this is one of the most sustainable macronutrient split choices.

35% Carbs – 35% Protein – 30% Fat (Balanced Approach/Plate Method)

This is similar to the above approach and can work well for most people, especially those who are more carbohydrate sensitive. You can also think of this as the Plate Method

40% Fat – 35% Protein – 25% Carbs (Lower Carb Diet)

This can often work well for people who don’t exercise very much, or for people who feel like they are more sensitive to carbohydrates. It’s not a true low carb diet, but more so a lower carbohydrate diet.

70% Fat – 20% Protein – 10% Carbs (Ketogenic Diet – High Fat Diet)

Ketogenic diets have the potential to work well for weight loss. Essentially you are eliminating almost all carbohydrates from your diet, reducing your amount of protein and getting most of your calories from good sources of fat. By doing this, you force your body to burn fat for energy since you have depleted your carbohydrate stores. While it can be effective for fat loss, a ketogenic diet is incredibly restrictive and isn’t a sustainable approach for many people. You can also inevitably be missing out on key nutrients to the level of restrictiveness.

Although keto diets have become been quite trendy in the past few years, keep in mind that being in a constant keto state has the potential to be incredibly dangerous for some people. If you want to follow a keto diet, make sure you speak to your doctor first. Once again, this isn’t the be-all-end-all-diet. It won’t work for everyone.

So where do you go from here?

Well, we recommend figuring out where you’re at, to begin with, and then make modifications from there. At the end of the day counting your macros every day for the rest of your life may not be a sustainable way of life for you. We don’t expect you to do that, but we do believe that you should spend some time trying to grasp the basic concept of macros, tracking for a while and seeing what works best for you.

Track for 7 days and see where you’re at and see where you think you can make small changes. For many people, it’s more about consistency with choosing the right foods in the right amounts, and if you do that then the macros should start to fall where they need to be. The best diet for you is one that fits you personally and that you can see yourself doing for the rest of your life! So, go ahead and experiment, you will find a way to prevail!

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