How do I track macros when I cook dinner for my family?

Nikkiey Stott explains that when she eats with her family, she plugs dinner into MyFitnessPal first, then works every other meal around it. She says it is completely okay to have more food at dinner so you can enjoy that time with your family. Just keep it balanced. Loading it with something like 30 grams of fat will leave you feeling bogged down. She also says planning the night before is the real game changer. It may take an hour at first, but with daily practice you get it down to about five minutes.

Jill, a 47-year-old nurse, learned early that she can't play it by ear. She plans her macros the night before, keeps the same foods in the house and copy-pastes most of her meals, so dinner is the only thing that changes. Her husband likes to cook, so she asks ahead what's on the menu, eats everything the family eats and weighs her portion. A small kitchen scale and about a minute of weighing is all it takes, she says.

If weighing everything sounds obsessive, one WarriorBabe coach on the show calls it a skill that serves you for life. You learn what real portion sizes look like. Jill can now eyeball two or three ounces of chicken at a restaurant without her scale. The family dinner was never the problem. You just needed a plan that puts it first.