{"id":71549,"date":"2020-09-24T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/?p=71549"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:49:09","slug":"hierarchy-of-importance-for-daily-macro-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/blog\/hierarchy-of-importance-for-daily-macro-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"hierarchy of importance for daily macro tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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“I am going to miss my macro targets – what should I do?”\u2063
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If you’ve got goals to get lean and strong, there will come a day when you don’t hit your macro targets. Actually, there will be several days: \u2063
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>> you forget your lunch at home and have to piecemeal something together from the lousy options around your office\u2063
>> you got invited to dinner last minute with your colleagues after you had a meal waiting for you at home (nice and pre-logged!)\u2063
>> you have to play Saturday sports chauffeur for the kids + friends. Add up all the bites and tastes of this and that, you’re no where near your macros. \u2063
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Tapping out on your goals is not an option for you. Your body is tracking macros whether or not you decide to. \u2063
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So, what’s the next best case scenario?\u2063
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Attempt to hit your calorie goals and your protein targets, let carbohydrates and fats fall where ever they might. \u2063
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I call this, “flexible tracking”. If you’re a total newbie, or you are in a season where you don’t need to be completely diligent about eating specific amounts of each macro, feel free to be flexible and track JUST calories and protein. \u2063
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Why protein? Well, we know that eating enough protein builds lean muscle, leaves us feeling full and satiated after meals and raises the metabolic rate.<\/p>

Carbohydrates and fats, while important for other functions, don’t have these same powers. \u2063
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The motivation for a nutrition and exercise routine is different for everyone. “Being healthy\u201d and \u201clooking good naked\u201d mean different things to different people. \u2063<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macro-tracking","category-pfc-balanced-eating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71549"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74657,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71549\/revisions\/74657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}