The IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macro) Approach

The IIFYM approach is the best in this manner, allowing you to eat healthily and cheat on your diet a little bit. Here macro stands for macronutrients, which include protein, carbs, and fats. As the word says, If It Fits Your Macro, if the food you are gonna eat fits your diet schedule then give it a go, it's a perfect fit for you.

For e.g, let’s imagine that we wanna eat a pancake but knowing that it is high in calories, we can’t add it into our diet, but what if we schedule the remaining meals in such a way that the calorie balance remains the same like we can add a meal of salad in place of a big whole food meal.

1. The 80/20 Rule

The 80/20 rules mean clean eating 80% of the time and messing it a little bit 20% of the time. E.g., if we eat 5 meals in a day, having 4 clean meals and 1 meal containing those foods which are termed as unhealthy can be included in your whole day of eating. So, going with this approach and combining the first one with it would be the ultimate bomb for you.

1. Regular Exercising

Damn! I mentioned the best solution at no.3, forget it everything has a purpose. We would have read it in several books also, that regular exercising is a key to a healthy body, but most of us don’t implement it in our real lives. Exercising daily helps to keep our metabolism in check, and also helps us to keep our body fit, thereby keeping the fat at bay.

1. Preparing a chart

A sample diet chart Having a roadmap for your journey helps you to reach your destination faster. That’s true here also, having a diet chart helps you to keep a watch on your diet, and every time you try playing with your diet, add it to the chart and see how out of budget(of calories) have you gone and make sure to compensate for it the next day either by increasing the exercise or decreasing your diet. (Don’t decrease the essential nutrients like protein, and healthy fats).

1. Try the healthy alternatives to junk

Now that may seem conflicting, but it is possible to eat junk that is healthy to a certain extent, i.e. eat that food that still contains a certain degree of healthiness if possible. For e.g. In India, try having a panner tikka or a tandoori chaap as it will help you keep up with your protein requirements. In this way, you will satisfy your tongue also, and your macro intake will also be at par.

Concluding it, I would want to say in the end that don't just be hardheaded and only focus on clean eating or eating forcefully healthily, cause it won’t be reaping any result, rather go for flexible eating where sometimes you can also satisfy your cravings. Dieting flexibly will help you diet longer. Keep dieting, keep enjoying your lives.

The IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macro) Approach

The IIFYM approach is the best in this manner, allowing you to eat healthily and cheat on your diet a little bit. Here macro stands for macronutrients, which include protein, carbs, and fats. As the word says, If It Fits Your Macro, if the food you are gonna eat fits your diet schedule then give it a go, it's a perfect fit for you.

For e.g, let’s imagine that we wanna eat a pancake but knowing that it is high in calories, we can’t add it into our diet, but what if we schedule the remaining meals in such a way that the calorie balance remains the same like we can add a meal of salad in place of a big whole food meal.

1. The 80/20 Rule

The 80/20 rules mean clean eating 80% of the time and messing it a little bit 20% of the time. E.g., if we eat 5 meals in a day, having 4 clean meals and 1 meal containing those foods which are termed as unhealthy can be included in your whole day of eating. So, going with this approach and combining the first one with it would be the ultimate bomb for you.

1. Regular Exercising

Damn! I mentioned the best solution at no.3, forget it everything has a purpose. We would have read it in several books also, that regular exercising is a key to a healthy body, but most of us don’t implement it in our real lives. Exercising daily helps to keep our metabolism in check, and also helps us to keep our body fit, thereby keeping the fat at bay.

1. Preparing a chart

A sample diet chart Having a roadmap for your journey helps you to reach your destination faster. That’s true here also, having a diet chart helps you to keep a watch on your diet, and every time you try playing with your diet, add it to the chart and see how out of budget(of calories) have you gone and make sure to compensate for it the next day either by increasing the exercise or decreasing your diet. (Don’t decrease the essential nutrients like protein, and healthy fats).

1. Try the healthy alternatives to junk

Now that may seem conflicting, but it is possible to eat junk that is healthy to a certain extent, i.e. eat that food that still contains a certain degree of healthiness if possible. For e.g. In India, try having a panner tikka or a tandoori chaap as it will help you keep up with your protein requirements. In this way, you will satisfy your tongue also, and your macro intake will also be at par.

Concluding it, I would want to say in the end that don't just be hardheaded and only focus on clean eating or eating forcefully healthily, cause it won’t be reaping any result, rather go for flexible eating where sometimes you can also satisfy your cravings. Dieting flexibly will help you diet longer. Keep dieting, keep enjoying your lives.