What Are Macro Calculators And Trackers?

• Healthy Eater uses your age, gender, height, weight, and activity level to calculate your macronutrient level.
• Muscle for Life uses your weight, body fat percentage and activity level to calculate your lean body mass (LBM), your basal metabolic rate (BMR) and total daily energy expenditure (TDEE)
• Katy Hearn uses your age, gender, height, weight, and activity level. It helps to improve your body composition or increase your lean body mass.
• Freedieting is a good choice if you know how many calories you need.
• IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros) gives a step-by-step process to calculate your macros.

When you know how to calculate your macros, you may want to track them to keep an eye on your eating patterns. Think of it as a digital food diary that keeps track of your daily intake.

• MyFitnessPal provides a useful pie chart with a breakdown of your macros.
• Cronometer tracks vitamins, minerals, macros, blood pressure, cholesterol, sleep, mood, pulse, and more.
• MyPlate Calorie Tracker provides a daily snapshot of your macro intake.
• With MyMacros+, simply scan a barcode to log food intake.
• Fitocracy Macros has an online fitness coaching platform and is best for manually tracking macros.

You don't need to track your macros unless you are a high-level athlete. Although tracking is helpful for flexible eating plans, it can sometimes lead to an obsession.

• Daily tracking food can breed an unhealthy habit that removes the pleasure of eating food.
• It can impact our social lives where we avoid eating with friends because we're unsure of what the food contains.
• It can lead to insufficient fuel for your body if you have undercalculated.
• It can lead to orthorexia nervosa, an eating disorder where you are obsessed with eating only foods you think are healthy and clean.