How to Eat for Fat Loss & Muscle Gains Without Counting Calories

How to Eat for Fat Loss & Muscle Gains Without Counting Calories
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Summer is here and maybe you’re riding the gains train but the vast majority of people are still looking to shed some body fat and show off all of their hard work from the long winter months.

Regardless of your goals, it seems like nutrition is often misconstrued; people want to place arbitrary rules on themselves and everything is taken out of context. Your body is designed with certain systems in place to help regulate hunger and maintain your bodyweight.

However, due to the influx of processed and fast foods, many of these feedback mechanisms can become altered and don’t function as efficiently. Calorie counting seems to have become the default answer for weight loss but what do you do if you don’t want to use a scale and MyFitnessPal?

Well, you better keep reading if you want to learn how to maximize your body composition and not get stuck crunching numbers…

1. Macros vs. Micros

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