<ul><li>Healthy Eater uses your age, gender, height, weight, and activity level to calculate your macronutrient level.</li><li>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)</li><li>Katy Hearn uses your age, gender, height, weight, and activity level. It helps to improve your body composition or increase your lean body mass.</li><li>Freedieting is a good choice if you know how many calories you need.</li><li>IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros) gives a step-by-step process to calculate your macros.</li></ul>

The best online macro calculators

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

The best macro trackers

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

Potential risks of calculators and trackers

A macro calculator helps you evaluate the breakdown of a particular food. It is useful if we follow a specific diet based on the macros consumed. For example,<ul><li>Building muscle requires an increase of protein.</li><li>Endurance sports require a higher carb intake to fuel the body for longer periods.</li><li>Fat loss where the reduction in carbs can reduce the likelihood of excess glucose storage.</li></ul>

The macro calculator

Macronutrients are foods that contain nutrients your diet needs in large amounts. The macros humans need to survive are:<ul><li>Carbohydrates, which provide us with a quick source of energy. They provide 4 calories per gram.</li><li>Proteins are the building blocks for many structures in our bodies, helping us grow, build muscle, repair injuries, and produce hormones and enzymes. They provide 4 calories per gram.</li><li>Fats are essential to help our body absorb fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, E, and K. They provide 9 calories per gram.</li></ul>

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From calculating the carbs in a slice of bread, to tracking your protein intake, macro calculators and trackers are there to, well, keep you on track!

The best online macro calculators

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