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Macronutrient Basics: Your Guide to the Essentials of Macronutrients—and How a Macro Diet Can Work for You!
Lose weight and build muscle with this simplified guide to the macronutrient diet—including 50+ recipes—so you can achieve the healthy lifestyle you’ve been craving while enjoying the foods you love!
All over the world, people have been looking for ways to lose weight and build lean muscle while still eating all the foods they enjoy. The macro diet has gained popularity with its flexible approach to eating that allows all food groups and simply requires keeping track of your macro intake. But calculating those macros and planning meals around them can be both confusing and time consuming!
In Macronutrient Basics, you’ll find easy-to-understand explanations and tips on how to adapt the macro diet to fit your needs—plus easy, delicious recipes and sample meal plans. Whether you’re an athlete looking to boost your performance or a recovering couch potato who wants to lose weight and gain energy without giving up the foods you love, this is the all-inclusive guide to accomplishing your goals.
Macronutrient Basics makes it easy to follow this flexible diet plan with a simplified take on the macronutrient diet that will help you transform your lifestyle—and your health!
All over the world, people have been looking for ways to lose weight and build lean muscle while still eating all the foods they enjoy. The macro diet has gained popularity with its flexible approach to eating that allows all food groups and simply requires keeping track of your macro intake. But calculating those macros and planning meals around them can be both confusing and time consuming!
In Macronutrient Basics, you’ll find easy-to-understand explanations and tips on how to adapt the macro diet to fit your needs—plus easy, delicious recipes and sample meal plans. Whether you’re an athlete looking to boost your performance or a recovering couch potato who wants to lose weight and gain energy without giving up the foods you love, this is the all-inclusive guide to accomplishing your goals.
Macronutrient Basics makes it easy to follow this flexible diet plan with a simplified take on the macronutrient diet that will help you transform your lifestyle—and your health!
224 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 28, 2020
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June 12, 2021
Really quick read - good basic information and detailed recipes.
July 12, 2026
I’ve been using macronutrient concepts to lose weight and build muscle for the last four months. The strategy has been remarkably sustainable for me. I picked up Macronutrient Basics to serve as a check on what I’ve been doing.
The book is a quick read. Dustin‘s advice is solid. His explanations of macronutrient concepts are relatively simple. There are places where the math might’ve been simpler, but it still checks out.
The book includes a good selection of recipes (not all of them) that have protein levels near or above 40%, a mark I consistently use for determining what I consider a good protein source. You can easily determine this by multiplying a food’s protein grams by 10 and comparing it to the number of calories. If that protein calculation is equal to or higher than the calories, protein makes up at least 40% of the calories in the food.
The book was published in 2020, so it doesn’t really cover the role that AI can play now in following a macronutrient diet and programming exercise. Still, it’s a reasonably priced book that delivers on the title. If you’re the type of person that wants to permanently make diet related health changes, this is a good place to start.
The book is a quick read. Dustin‘s advice is solid. His explanations of macronutrient concepts are relatively simple. There are places where the math might’ve been simpler, but it still checks out.
The book includes a good selection of recipes (not all of them) that have protein levels near or above 40%, a mark I consistently use for determining what I consider a good protein source. You can easily determine this by multiplying a food’s protein grams by 10 and comparing it to the number of calories. If that protein calculation is equal to or higher than the calories, protein makes up at least 40% of the calories in the food.
The book was published in 2020, so it doesn’t really cover the role that AI can play now in following a macronutrient diet and programming exercise. Still, it’s a reasonably priced book that delivers on the title. If you’re the type of person that wants to permanently make diet related health changes, this is a good place to start.
June 10, 2023
Was able to read in an afternoon and pick up the key concepts - presented simply so even my non-science mind got it. Great selection of starter recipes to get you going on a macro based program.
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