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Foods Scales Are Great for tracking your macros

Author: Sol Ami Patria
by Sol Ami Patria
Posted: Jul 20, 2015

The three rules of maintaining a muscular and lean body is to eat well, to hold onto a healthy lifestyle and to lift heavy. The eating healthy part is about eating a lot of protein and keeping fat and carbs at a balanced level while making sure you get your vitamins and minerals. This is called keeping track of your macros in bodybuilding circles, with the word "macro" referring to macronutrients like fat and protein. Everyone with some idea about nutrition tracks the macros. Surely, we all want to avoid excess fat and sugar. Yet, bodybuilders have to be much more strict about that because they are pushing to the biological limits of the human body to max out the muscle mass. That is why food scales are a great companion for bodybuilders in their quest to meeting the macros.

Without special equipment to tell you the exact weight of the food, all efforts to meet certain nutritional criteria are based on estimations. You can guess the average weight of an apple by just seeing it just like you probably have an idea about the weight of a spoon of rice. Packaged and canned food are much more reliable in this sense because you know exactly how much you are eating as long as you eat all of it. The problems begin when you want to make your own protein meals with a strict ratio of nutrients in it. This is where a kitchen scale can play a very helpful role.

With a good kitchen scale at your disposal, you will be able to prepare custom pre-workout and post-workout meals in a very easy and efficient way. The scale lets you know the precise weight of each food you are including in your shake or meal so that you have full control over things without pondering how many days it takes you to finish a pound of ground meat or something like that.

The best food scale for bodybuilding is probably a nutritional scale that instantly calculates and show the major nutrient types in the food. Such a product would faciliate the meal preparation even further and let you concentrate on lifting and training.

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Author: Sol Ami Patria

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