07/04/2021
Dialing in your macros
It’s not easy doing this and it takes a lot of practice to get it just right. I’ve been doing it for years so i can get it dialed in pretty damn quick.
Here’s what you need to do:
First, go google TDEE CALCULATOR.
Type in all your information into the calculator and have it tell you exactly how much calories you need to eat in order to maintain your current size.
Now... take 500 calories off of that and you have your “caloric deficit”.
Now let’s say you need to eat 1500 calories a day in order to drop body-fat.
So always start out with your protein.
You want around .8 of your weight to be protein. So if you weigh 200lbs, you want to have about 160 grams of protein per day. Now with that, you need to find how many calories that is.
There are 4 calories in every gram of protein, so... (4 x 160) = 640 calories.
Great.. now you have your protein.
Next is FATs.
So you want between .25 and .3 of your total calories (1500 calories) to be fat.
So take .28 and multiply by 1500 to get your answer.
420 calories of fat.
Now fat has 9 calories per gram, so take 420 and divide by the 9 calories..
This gets you about 46 grams of fat per day.
Perfect! Now the carbs.
You need carbs.. why? It helps with healthy natural testosterone production.
So take your fat calories and add them to your protein calories.. bringing you to 1,060 calories. Take the 1500 total calories and subtract the 1,060 from that brining you to 440 calories left for carbs.
There are 4 calories per gram of carbs so take 440 / 4 = 110 grams of carbs.
BOOM...
160 grams of protein
46 grams of fat
110 grams of carbs
Now create your meal plans around that and you’ll be cutting body-fat while maintaining muscle mass.
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