DC health and wellness Archives - fiftytwothursdays https://www.fiftytwothursdays.us/tag/dc-health-and-wellness/ style + fitness Fri, 12 May 2017 19:35:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 What Are Macros and Why Should We Count Them? https://www.fiftytwothursdays.us/fitness/what-are-macros-and-why-should-we-count-them/ https://www.fiftytwothursdays.us/fitness/what-are-macros-and-why-should-we-count-them/#respond Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:21:44 +0000 http://fiftytwothursdays.us/?p=15645 What Are Macros and Why Should We Count Them? “Macros? What the heck are they and why are people counting them?” That was my gut reaction when I caught wind of the macro trend. I have never been one to count calories or to follow any kind of diet for that matter. I mean why in the heck would I workout so hard if I can’t just eat what I want afterward? That has always been my mentality and approach to my diet but little did I know that I wasn’t eating enough of the foods that my body needed to perform properly. After an injury that set me back with my fitness goals and feeling like crap when exercising, I realized I needed to make a change. No longer could I just “wing it” when it came to my nutrition, especially when training as hard as I was. That is when I inquired about the macro craze, I did a little research on my own and then started asking questions to the friends I knew that were on a macro type diet. The things I read and heard were pretty similar, it was all about balance and making sure you hit your […]

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