Macro Counting to Intuitive Eating: Top Myths + How to Know If You’re Ready to Transition

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Body, Mindset, Movement, Health, Acceptance, Macros, Love, Positivity, Nutrition, Loss, Weight

5 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve been tracking your food for a while, you might be wondering what life would look like if you stopped weighing, measuring, and logging everything you eat and started eating intuitively. But let me tell you—the shift isn’t as scary as you might think, and it can be so empowering!

In this episode of Embrace You Real, I’ll cover signs that you’re ready (and not ready) to transition, what intuitive eating looks like in the fitness world, common myths and misconceptions around intuitive eating, and my best five steps to making the transition.

I’ll also share common mistakes people make and how to avoid them so you can set yourself up for success. Yes, that’s a lot of things we’re about to cover but I know it will answer any questions you may have.

What I discuss:

Signs You’re Ready for Intuitive Eating

You understand portion sizes and can build balanced meals without tracking.
Your focus has shifted from fat loss to maintenance or feeling good.
You have a healthy relationship with food—no more "good" or "bad" labels.

Signs You’re Not Ready for Intuitive Eating

You’re still heavily tied to hitting specific macro numbers.
You struggle with overindulge-restrict cycles.
You haven’t mastered the basics of nutrition or portion sizes yet.

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0:00.0	Hey there, beautiful human. You're listening to Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Ledbetter,
0:05.4	a podcast where I empower you to just be you. With each episode, I dish you a dose of real talk
0:11.4	and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving
0:16.6	your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real. Let's get and let's go.
0:27.4	Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real podcast. Today we're actually
0:33.1	talking about a topic that I've never fully talked about on this podcast, which is so crazy because we are well over 500 episodes now. And that topic is intuitive eating. I know many of you guys are curious about how to transition from counting macros to intuitive eating. And this is honestly something that I've personally been doing for a long time. So I feel like it's time to talk about it.
0:56.2	Obviously, I have tracked macros and did track macros for, you know, a decade of my life.
1:01.5	And so I really have the foundation and the skill when it came to understanding portion control,
1:07.4	understanding what it felt like to nourish my body optimally. And so if you've been tracking
1:12.6	your food for a while, you might also be wondering, okay, what would life look like if I've stopped
1:17.8	measuring, if I stopped weighing, if I stopped logging everything that I ate? And let me tell you,
1:22.4	it really is not as scary as you might think. It can also be super empowering. And so today I just kind of want to
1:28.9	cover some signs that you're ready or maybe not ready to transition and what intuitive eating
1:34.1	looks like, kind of in the fitness world, common myths, common misconceptions around intuitive
1:39.0	eating. And my five best steps to making the transition, I will also share some common mistakes that people make
1:46.9	and how to avoid them so that you can really set yourself up for success. And yes, that's a lot of
1:51.9	things that we're going to be covering in today's episode, but I know that it will hopefully
1:56.0	answer any questions that you might have. Before we dive in, though, I want to share this review.
2:00.7	It comes from Black Unicorn, though, I want to share this review. It comes from
2:01.2	Black Unicorn, 1974. I love that username. She gave a five-star review and said just what I needed to hear.
2:09.1	I don't know how Julie does it, but she seems to cover topics, and I listen to them just at the right
2:14.0	time. From how to lose weight properly to how to lift weight properly and just how
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