This woman achieved her body goals by eating MORE!

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Tracking each meal with a calorie counter may be one way to lose weight, but as one woman proved, it’s certainly not the only way to get your ideal body.

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Blogger Madalin Giorgetta used to restrict herself to a 800 calorie-a-day diet. However, now she is eating more than double the amount of calories and she looks better than ever!

Madalin’s breakthrough happened when she realised she wasn’t giving her body enough macronutrients. Macronutrients are carbohydrates, proteins and fat. Dietician Nikita Kapur explained to Self, “If your body gets fewer calories than it needs to function, it can go into a conservation mode where it tries to hold on to as much energy as it can.”

Like any of us being told to eat more to get slimmer, Madalin wasn’t initially convinced of the plan. She explained that when her nutritional coach told her to eat 50% more carbs in her diet she freaked out, “I was eating about 10% carbs before and could not fathom how 50% carbs would not make me fat. I also freaked out at all the calories.’

However, after sticking to her coach’s advice, she started to see results. “Don’t waste your time eating salad when you could be eating sweet potatoes and banana pancakes” she wrote on Instagram. “Eat more and get fit. It actually works 🙌🏽”.

You can see Madalin’s full post here:

Let's just preface this by saying no, I did not have an ED. When I was eating 800 calories a day, I thought I was healthy. I was eating healthy food, but hardly any macronutrients. I was curious to find out what my macros were like before I actually started counting my macros, so I entered my old foods into @myfitnesspal to find out. I was quiet astonished to see how little protein and carbs I was eating. 800 calories seems absurdly low as now I need minimum 1500 calories to be full, but at the time 800 calories was keeping me full because that's what my body was used to. After a while though, salad simply wasn't cutting it, and for all the restrictions I was placing on my diet, I simply wasn't seeing the results I had anticipated. So I got in touch with a PT and nutritional coach and got my macros sorted. When he first told me to eat 50% carbs I nearly died! I was eating about 10% carbs before and could not fathom how 50% carbs would not make me fat. I also freaked out at all the calories. I've been keeping an excel spreadsheet and in the first week of being on macros my average calories for the week was a little over 1000. I remember how hard I struggled to actually eat the size of my meals. I would just put my lunch next to my desk and eat it over the course of 3 hours as I couldn't eat it in one sitting! Now my stomach can take way more and is much happier! In the second week I was averaging 1600 calories a day! It didn't take long for my body to catch up. A part of me may always have that mindset that relates not eating with weight loss and "being good today". Sometimes I may forget to eat lunch just because I got busy and for a second I will revert back to old thinking, and think "ohh, I've done really well today and haven't eaten much at all." That's why I love tracking my macros. It will tell me "Maddy, you need to eat more. Go eat 3 potatoes". And I'll pat myself on the back for being healthy and doing really good today! If you're under feeding yourself in an effort to lose weight, don't do what I did for so long. Don't waste your time eating salad when you could be eating sweet potatoes and banana pancakes. Eat more and get fit. It actually works 🙌🏽

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