Purposeful Healthy Eating

Welcome to the Eating Healthy’s new Community Health and Wellness blog.  The purpose of our blog is to provide you with information and tips for how to maintain your health and wellness.  Our first blog post is about Understanding Macros. Do you know what macros are? “Macro” is short fort macronutrients. They’re the three categories of nutrients you eat the most and provide you with most of your energy needs: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats . So in order to count your macros you will need to track the grams of protein, carbohydrates or fats that you are consuming. Just about everything you eat is a carbohydrate, fat, or protein, and sometimes a food fits in more that just one category. For example, your average avocado has 21 grams of fat, 11 grams of carbohydrates, and almost 3 gams of protein. Not everyone requires the same amount of macronutrients. The amount of each macronutrient a reason needs varies by activity level, genetics, and fitness goals. There’s not one clear ...