you should never. diet. again.

Just like fashion, dieting has trends. For every velour tracksuit, there’s an Atkins Diet. For every miniskirt paired with Uggs, there’s someone eating 12 bananas a day. And similar to fashion crazes, diets go in and out of style. Thanks to instagram, with one quick scroll through your feed, you can see various fitness influencers hawking every type of weight loss gimmick, from skinny teas to eating according to your blood type (only okay if you are a vampire). Unfortunately, these trendy diets can be a lot more harmful than wearing super low rise jeans with bedazzled back pockets. 

You might be tempted to lump macro-counting into the fad diet category. But macro-counting is a classic leather jacket from Saks, not a pink pleather jacket from Forever 21. It’s a long-term investment. The concept is simple: feed your body a balanced blend of nutrients (carbs, fat + protein.) Take it a step further, and you can dial in your intake of those three nutrients to do more specific things like, lean out, build muscle, manage energy or lose fat. Drinking lemon juice mixed with cayenne pepper and maple syrup for 3 days straight just isn’t going to cut it. 

Macro counting isn’t a diet. Tracking your macronutrients means choosing foods for their nutrients, in direct relation to what your body needs. This is something that on or off a program, will help you make smarter choices. This style of eating promotes freedom and balance, opposed to adhering to a set of arbitrary rules for a set period of time (like only eating a breakfast of cabbage soup for 5 weeks). Over time, macro counting can also lead to intuitive eating. With practice, you’ll know instinctively eat what is right for you. Plus, you can always go back to tracking your macros as a refresher, just like the black leather jacket in your closet that never goes out of style. 

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