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CALORIES & MACROS

Eating for the result you want

A calorie and macro calculator that knows whether you're on an appetite-suppressing compound. That matters, because the main risk on these isn't losing too little — it's losing the wrong tissue.

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About you

Semaglutide, tirzepatide, retatrutide, survodutide, mazdutide, liraglutide, cagrilintide and the newer agonists still in trials. They all suppress appetite, so they all raise the same protein question.

Your numbers

2000kcal a day
at 20% deficit
maintenance is 2500 kcal

Protein
0 g
Fat
0 g
Carbs
0 g
BMR
0 kcal

Also aim for

Fibre0 g a day
Fluid0 litres a day
Protein kcal0
Fat kcal0
Carb kcal0

Why protein matters more on a GLP-1

The thing worth understanding before you look at any of the numbers above.

Weight loss is never purely fat. Some proportion of what comes off is lean tissue — muscle, organ mass, bone. That's true of any deficit, however you create it.

What's specific to GLP-1s is the speed and the appetite suppression. Losing quickly, while eating considerably less than usual and often without particularly trying, is the combination most likely to take muscle along with the fat. Trial data on these compounds has consistently shown a meaningful share of total loss coming from lean mass.

Two things change that, and neither is complicated.

Protein

A higher intake gives your body a reason to keep muscle rather than break it down for fuel. This is why the calculator sets 2.2 g per kg when the GLP-1 box is ticked, rather than the 1.6 g it would use otherwise.

Resistance training

Protein gives the material; training gives the signal. Two or three sessions a week is enough to change the outcome substantially. It doesn't need to be complicated or heavy.

Not eating less

The instinct on a GLP-1 is to lean into the reduced appetite. But the deficit is already there — pushing it further mostly costs you muscle rather than buying faster fat loss.

Hitting protein when you're not hungry

The practical problem nobody warns you about: the same appetite suppression that makes the deficit effortless makes the protein target genuinely hard.

What works

Front-load the day
Appetite is usually better in the morning and worse by evening. Get most of your protein in early rather than planning a big dinner you won't fancy.
Drink some of it
A shake goes down when food won't. Two shakes can be 50 g of protein with almost no volume.
Pick dense sources
Greek yoghurt, cottage cheese, chicken breast, white fish, egg whites. Maximum protein per mouthful, because mouthfuls are the limited resource.
Separate fluid from food
Drinking with meals fills you up faster. Take fluid between meals instead.
Track for a fortnight
Most people badly overestimate what they're eating on a GLP-1. Two weeks of honest logging usually shows a much bigger gap than expected.

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The calculator does arithmetic only — it assumes 100 units per mL, so one click is 0.01 mL, and its output is only as good as the numbers you put in. Several compounds listed are prescription-only medicines in the UK and many others are unlicensed, meaning no regulator has assessed them for human use.

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