What Macros Do YOU Use When Dieting???

[Texas Ranger]

What Macros do you use when dieting to get lean?? I know 40% Protein/40% Carbs/20% Fat is pretty popular. As is 40% Protein/30% Carbs/30% Fat. Or does it matter???

 

[sawastea]

Normally I'll stick around 40/40/20, 40/30/30 and keto...

Right now I'm on a 50/30/20 with my carbs around my workout (TKD)

Always something new to try

 

[Babyfaced Assassin]

i've 40:30:30 (protein:Carbs:fats) or 40/40/20 seems to work for me, it's more important i keep the calories low and not consume too much carbs per meal

 

[Deleted member 33117]

70 fat/ 30 pro, carbs 20 grams or so (from green veggies and cheese, sometimes macadamia or walnutts). Carb up days are roughly 40/30/30 (c/p/f), alough sometime I just pig out on junk and not worry about it.

 

[juve]

i'm currently on maintenace diet, so i consume about 80-100g carbs, 200-220g protein and lotsa fats (mono's, poly's and saturated)...never bothered to calculate the exact numbers...as long as the food is clean and quality no fat gain is produced...and i schedule my carbs around my workouts/practices, other than that carbs are waste and not needed

 

[Toozee]

About 40-50 pro / 50-60 fat .....carbs are less than 20 per day.
Carb up from about 5:45pm Friday after work out, to bedtime Saturday.

 

[Texas Ranger]

Man, I just don't see how you guys function on 20-30 grams of Carbs a day. WOW! I'd be ready to pimp slap the Pope!!! Hats off...

 

[Burning_Inside]

I was in a state of dieting for about a year or more straight.

When I finally started bulking again...man, what a difference. felt so good to have energy again and to be "strong".

 

[Texas Ranger]

Anymore replies, guys??

 

[MuscleKSU]

I don't think isocaloric is to bad. I will do it once in awhile. 33/33/33. Other than that, if you are training hard and making the right food choices I think 50 CHO/30PRO/20FAT is tough to beat.

Ryan

 

[Texas Ranger]

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[Texas Ranger]

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[heregothere]

I've been on a 40c/35p/25f (lots of olive oil and peanut butter) for the past 2 months and I've dropped about 2% bodyfat (to 10-11%) without lowering my caloric intake or increasing my activity levels. (Before that, my macros were probably around 60c/20p/20f).

 

[juve]

I still would like to reiterate...as long as a diet is clean i firmly believe it doesn't matter how much/what ratios you consume (within reasonable limits)...sometimes i overeat my daily caloric intake by A LOT because i feel like it...but as long as it's clean...no gram of fat gained....i know because i experimented...for a month i was consuming about 4500+cals (i'm 167 lbs) for my maintenance while still doing my usual activities (running, weights, soccer)...didn't gain crap but a few lbm (as long as i see veins on my lower abs i know i'm not gaining fat...my 'measure stick')...i believe that if you stay anabolic throughout the day (stay active and expedite energy towards growth/hypertrophy/endurance/speed) you can eat whatever you want.

but once again....reasonable limits!

 

[Xizor]

Ckd, started with 230p/180f/15c for about 20weeks then cut down to 230p/150f/15c, now on week 36. Instead of cutting alot calories during weekdays I have shortened my carb days from 36h/w to 24h/w to 24e10d.
dunno how to calculate macros so I wrote the total intake in g/day. Is macros %energy or %nutrients? thx.

/Xizor