{"id":77119,"date":"2022-06-12T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T20:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/?p=77119"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T20:13:04","slug":"maintenance-think-range-of-calories-not-a-fixed-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/blog\/maintenance-think-range-of-calories-not-a-fixed-number\/","title":{"rendered":"maintenance: think range of calories, not a fixed number"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cI hurt my shoulder and am going to be less active than I normally am. Should I change my macros?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIn the summer, I am more active with the kids out of school. Should I change my macros?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cVacation was great – I enjoyed allll the good eats! Now that I\u2019m back, should I change my macros?\u201d<\/p>

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A couple things you need to understand first:<\/p>

>> you don\u2019t burn the exact same amount of calories every day. Consider rest days are different than active days. Days you sleep in will be different than days you wake early and stay out late. Dancing at your best friend\u2019s wedding is different than Netflix and chill.<\/p>

>> you don\u2019t consume the exact same amount of calories every day. Consider errors in tracking, estimations at restaurants, rounding on nutrition labels. Days you don\u2019t log your eats until the end of the day. Days where you had more bites, licks and tastes of your kids\u2019 plates.<\/p>

It\u2019s highly likely that you can actually support your body and maintain your scale weight by eating a range of calories – we call this maintenance calories.<\/p>

Should I change my macros, tho?<\/p>

My answer: probably not.<\/p>

And you wanna know something cool?<\/p>

You can actually increase your maintenance calories \ud83e\udd2f by breaking up with chronic dieting, banning yo-yo diet cycles and engaging in a strength training routine with progressive overload.<\/p>

So the next time you think you need to change your macros due to temporary circumstances, think again. Your body can totally handle a little fluctuation in calories in vs. calories out.<\/p>

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Next time you think you need to change your macros due to temporary circumstances, think again. Your body can handle a little fluctuation in calories in vs. calories out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77078,"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":[142,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macro-tracking","category-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77119"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77123,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77119\/revisions\/77123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}