Myfitnesspal is one of the foundational tools that I use to have success with the P90X nutrition plan. Without tracking your nutrition, you simply wont get any type of extreme results. Sure you can lose some weight, maybe even tone up a bit, but dont get discouraged when you dont have a six pack after 90 days of wingin it on your nutrition.
1) Do it the day before! – If you sit down for 5-10 minutes each night, you can plan your meals for the next day and play around with serving sizes so that you meet your macro-nutrients dead on every single time.
I see so many people logging their nutrition and acting surprised to find that they went over on their carbs by 75 grams. Well, if you had entered what you were going to eat the night before, you would have known exactly how much you needed AND you would have been much more likely to stick to the plan.
2) Leave some room – You might not have this situation, but I dont know what my wife is cooking for dinner every night so I have to plan out all my nutrition, except for dinner.
I know that we usually have some sort of lean protein, fresh veggies, and a complex carbohydrate. So what I do is calculate everything out so that by dinner I have about 50g of protein, around 30 carbs, and around 10g of fat.
This leaves me plenty of room to adjust the serving sizes of my dinner items to meet my macro-nutrient targets, rather than worry about what types of food I will have to eat.
Its not rocket science gang. Start practicing these two steps and you are going to notice how much easier it is to have success with your nutrition. You already know that 80% of your results come from diet, so why wouldnt you do everything you can to ensure your success.
I even created this video so to show you EXACTLY how I use myfitnesspal online to plan and track my nutrition based on My 1900 Calorie Diet.
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