Why do I always go over my macros at the end of the day?

Nikkiey has been there. On Ep. 72 she describes standing in her kitchen at 8 o'clock at night, multiple days and weeks in a row, feeling defeated. She always went over her macros, mainly because she was tracking as she went. She hears the same thing from WarriorBabe members: it's the end of the day, there are 50 grams of carbs, 20 grams of protein and 10 grams of fat left, and no normal meal hits all three. That's when the weird food concoctions happen. This isn't a willpower problem. It's a planning problem.

Her fix was to pre-plan. She takes time the night before to barcode-scan foods in her kitchen and play Tetris with her meals until the numbers fit. Then she opens MyFitnessPal the next day and everything is already there. If the night before doesn't work, she says the morning of is fine too: log breakfast as you sit down, then map out lunch, snack, pre-workout, post-workout and dinner. Her target is to land within plus or minus 5 grams on protein, fats and carbs. That counts as nailing your macros for the day.

WarriorBabe member Emily says the same thing in her story video. If you plan the day of, she says, it won't work: you'll either under-eat or over-eat. So she plans the night before, and when she wakes up, it's a no-brainer. Nikkiey adds that tracking as you go is how you end up "macro hoarding" at night, with 70 grams of carbs and 30 grams of protein still to fit in.

If planning feels slow at first, that's normal. Emily admits she stayed up too late working it out in the beginning. Now it takes her about two to three minutes.