A Guide to Macro Tracking for Beginners
Not all calories are created equal! Learn the difference between protein, carbs and fats and the basics of counting macros.
Mitch Lockhart
Jan 8, 2025
WAG Blog
Expert nutrition advice, tracking tutorials, member stories, and more to help you reach your goals.
Cold Meal Prep: No-Cooking-Required Options to Grab at the Grocery Store
Whether you're traveling, have a busy week at work, or would rather spend your limited free time outside of the kitchen, there is likely going to be a time in your life when you need to keep things as simple as possible.
Ali Macy
Jun 3, 2024
Do I Need to Track Macros to Lose Weight?
Whether you’re new to macro tracking or have been at it for a while, you’ve likely thought to yourself, “do I need to track macros to lose weight?” or, “Do I have to track macros forever?”
Ali Macy
Jul 3, 2023
WAG Holiday Nutrition Guide: Your Healthy Holiday
We have created the WAG Holiday Nutrition Guide—to help you have a fantastic season, while still staying healthy.
Ali Macy
Dec 5, 2022
Macro-Friendly Costco Foods: WAG Favorites
Who doesn’t love saving money, buying in bulk and bringing tons of macro-friendly Costco foods home to help you hit your macros?
Ali Macy
Jul 11, 2022
Should I Weigh Food Before or After Cooking?
Should I weigh my food before cooking? Does frozen food weigh more? How important is it to hit your macros anyway? Here are the answers you're looking for!
Katherine Hyatt Hawkins
Apr 25, 2022
The Complete Guide to MyFitnessPal Tutorials
Over the last few years we’ve written and recorded video tutorials for the most requested MyFitnessPal How-To’s. We put together this list of our top nine tutorials to make it easy for you to access at any time.
Dani Sheriff
May 24, 2018
MyFitnessPal Premium Tutorial: How to ‘Quick Add’ Macros to Your Diary
Sometimes we know the macros of a particular food item and it would be so much faster to just manually add the macros instead of having to look up an entry in the MyFitnessPal database.
Dani Sheriff
Apr 30, 2018
MyFitnessPal Premium Tutorial: Entering Custom Macro Goals
One of the absolute best features of the premium MyFitnessPal account is that you can set specific macronutrients, rather than just aiming for a ballpark percentage like with the free version of the app.
Team WAG
Jan 9, 2018
MyFitnessPal Premium Tutorial: Set Different Macros for Different Days
With the MFP Premium version, you can set custom macros for different days. So, if you have lower and higher carb days for example, you can pre-set MyFitnessPal!
Dani Sheriff
Sep 8, 2017
Macro Friendly Grocery Store Picks: Vons Albertsons
We’re bringing you yet another list of must-buy macro-friendly grocery store items!
Dani Sheriff
Sep 3, 2017
Macro-Friendly at the Breakfast Buffet
While traveling can be such an enjoyable experience, the thought of having to navigate our nutrition while on vacay-mode can also be a little daunting.
Melanie Barnshaw
Jul 14, 2017