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The way you make tracking macros easy and enjoyable is by having a diet structure. A plan you eat by every day.
I have two diet structures one for cutting and one for bulking but as you can see they are both very similar.
The main reason people get burned out by tracking macros is because they eat different foods at different times every day. They wake up with the mentality that they have a certain calorie budget to spend today and they start to think of all the different foods that they could eat.
This is fun at first because you get to eat all the foods you love without any guilt. But this soon turns into anxiety as you think about food too much.
The worst days are those when you eat too much in the first part of the day and you have very little calories left for the evening. The anxiety you get from not allowing yourself to eat that evening is unlike any other feeling I've tried. It sucks!
If you've never tracked calories in your life you may find this incredibly stupid, but those of you who have tracked calories I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
All of these problems can be solved by a diet structure. Once you find an enjoyable way to spread your food throughout the day, turn that into a habit.
The diet structure will dictate what you eat at any given point of the day. This will free a lot of mental energy for other things and will make tracking macros much easier.
For example take a loot at my diet structure for cutting.
I know that my first meal will include protein and fiber. That's it. I'll never have pizza in my first meal because it doesn't fit the structure.
If I'm going to have pizza I'll have it my last meal which is the largest.
I'll never have sweets in my first meal. If I want chocolate I'll have that in my 5-6 pm meal, like I did now.
You know what this does? I never have to think about food and yet I can eat anything I want. In addition to this, since I implemented this diet structure idea, I didn't have one single binge eating day. Which is very common with people who track calories.
So my advice is this: set up a diet structure like I did.
