Essay On Flexible Dieting

f my issues with food and experiences with dietary-related illness fueled my decision to go back to school, get my master’s degree in Nutrition, and become a dietititan.

Flexible dieting has changed my life, and it makes keeping body fat low and staying healthy easy. For those who don’t know, flexible dieting, or “meeting your macros (IFFYM)” requires tracking your intake of protein, fat, and carbs, and making sure that each category of macronutrients (macros) adds up to the appropriate amount of grams each day.

Just as training plans must be personalized based on a person’s goals, strengths, and weaknesses, the amount of protein, fat, and carbs a person consumes must be personalized based on metabolism, current activity levels, and goals.

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This makes flexible dieting a much more strategic way of doing things, and you can avoid the restriction-binge cycle by fitting the type of food you really want to eat into your meals.

You can also avoid subjectively labeling foods as either “good” or “bad,” and instead, objectively refer to them by the grams of fat, protein, and carbs they contain.

A simple way to think about flexible dieting is to pretend that you have a certain amount of money to spend on each category of macros, and you can choose to spend this money on any food you want.

For example, if you have 50 grams of fat and 200 g of carbs to spend and you really love ice cream, you can choose to include it in your diet with the acknowledgement that it is “expensive” and will use up a fairly large amount of your carb and fat money.

You will adjust for this decision by eating lower fat and carb items the rest of the day as well as higher protein items to meet your protein