FLEXPRO CONNECT

IIFYM Dieting: What the?

FLEXPRO CONNECT

IIFYM Dieting: What the?

by Nathan Corn on Mar 16 2016
If It Fits Your Macros, or IIFYM as the “fitness crowd” calls it is relatively new as a meme, formerly known as “flexible dieting” but the dietary principles have actually been around for quite some time in the fitness world. IIFYM, or flexible dieting, is a method of dieting that revolves around meeting daily macro nutritional intake targets, and not on what you eat to get there.  It’s essentially a form of calorie counting (a gram of protein and carbohydrate both contain about 4 calories, and a gram of fat contains about 9). Tracking Your Macros How Many Calories should I eat per day? How many grams of protein should I consume per day? How many grams of carbohydrates should I consume per day? How many grams of fat should I consume per day? *Need help calculating?!  Check on our pasts posts and Keep an eye out for future blogs where we teach you how!