Hungry at Night While Tracking Macros? How to Plan Your Meals
Hungry at Night While Tracking Macros? How to Plan Your Meals By Anthony Collova, founder of IIFYM.com You’ve finished dinner, logged your food, and hit your macros. An hour later, you’re standing in the kitchen wondering what else you can eat. If that keeps happening, your food log deserves a closer look. Hitting your numbers […]
What Hitting Rock Bottom in Addiction Taught Me About Weight Loss
What Hitting Rock Bottom in Addiction Taught Me About Macros and Weight Loss 28 years clean and sober, and I still lean into this tool. By Anthony Collova, Founder of IIFYM.com As the founder of IIFYM, I spend a lot of time writing about weight loss, macros, nutrition, dieting and what it actually takes to […]
How to use your mistakes to lose weight with macros
Tracking Macros After a Binge: Why I Tell My Clients to Log the Bad Days By Anthony Collova, founder of IIFYM.com and creator of the original IIFYM macro calculator. Written from 15 years of one-on-one macro coaching. Reviewed for accuracy and updated for 2026. One of the first things I ask my clients to do […]
Why Am I Not Losing Weight in a Calorie Deficit? 12 Things to Check when Tracking Macros for Fat Loss
Fat Loss & Macro Coaching Why Am I Not Losing Weight in a Calorie Deficit? 12 Things to Check Before Cutting Calories Again You’re tracking your food. You believe you’re in a calorie deficit. Maybe the plan was working for weeks or months. Now the scale won’t move. Before you cut another 200 calories or […]
12 Reasons to fire your weight loss coach
Macro Coaching 12 Nutrition Coach Red Flags: When to Fire Your Macro or Nutrition Coach If your nutrition coach blames you when progress stops, dismisses menopause, immediately cuts your calories or carbs, gives you generic macros, or has no plan for what happens after weight loss, it may be time to find a better coach. […]
How to Calculate Your Macros for Weight Loss
Updated: June 7, 2026 · By Anthony Collova, founder of IIFYM.com To calculate your macros for weight loss, find your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE), subtract a deficit of 15 to 20 percent, then divide the remaining calories into protein at 0.8 to 1 gram per pound of body weight, fat at about 25 percent […]
GLP-1 Macros: How to Set Protein, Carbs & Fat on Semaglutide (2026)
Nutrition · GLP-1s · Macro Tracking GLP-1 Macros: How to Set Protein, Carbs & Fat on Semaglutide (2026) Lower hunger doesn’t remove the need for nutrition structure. If you’re losing weight on a GLP-1, your job isn’t just to eat less. Your job is to eat in a way that protects your body while the […]
How to Track Macros on Ozempic and GLP-1 Medications | IIFYM
If you’re on Ozempic, Wegovy, or another GLP-1 medication, your macros matter more than ever. Here’s how to track macros on GLP-1s to protect muscle and keep results.
ChatGPT Macro Calculator: Why AI Gets Your Numbers Wrong (And What to Use Instead)
By Anthony Collova | Founder, IIFYM.com | March 4, 2026 ChatGPT vs. Macro Calculators: What’s Actually Worth Trusting? People treat ChatGPT answers like they came from a doctor. I’ve watched clients follow AI-generated macros for weeks without questioning a single number, because it answered in full sentences and sounded confident. That confidence is the problem. […]