How bad should i feel about going "over" in a fat/Chol?

thepiratemd

I feel that myfitnesspal, while good, isn't perfect.

For example, I'm on day 1 of my new lifestyle- I am finally committed to eating healthy

Through the day, I've had things like (1) hard boild egg, some salmon at dinner, Argular with a homemade vinagrette/olive oil dressing....etc

and yet I get these big, red GLARIND numbers at me. "oh no! you went over cholesterol by 123!" "You've gone over fat by 21!"

I don't think the food tracker is measuring whether the cholesterol is HDL or not , or if the fats are omega 3s.

so while I tried my hardest to kick some butt and be healthy.... damn... I really feel like a porker for making a dill sauce for the salmon, with 2.5 tbsp of mayonnaise in it.


/vent over. Im thankful for this free site

neanderthin

You shouldn't feel bad, it's just a program. Nothing wrong with any fat, sans trans fats. As long as your within your calorie goals slight variations of your macro's isn't going to make much difference at all.

jayrudq

You should not feel bad in the least. It is just information. Decide what you want to do and what is important to you and do it. And don't sweat the rest.

FitnessBeverlyHills

I wouldn't be too worried those all seem like great sources of fat, the same happens on MFP when you eat fresh fruit and your sugar sky rockets. I think the source is more important.

Nicolee_2014

You will drive yourself crazy if you analyse all the numbers. I used to do it with my sugar as I'd ALWAYS go over. So now I've dropped it from my macros. I just try to make an effort to be mindful of what I have that has sugar in it.

agdyl

You can adjust your macros if you want as well. Personally my goals are to keep sugar to a minimum, eat plenty of fiber, protein and fat. As long as I'm eating healthy fats and my total calorie intake is where I want it, I don't worry about too much fat, too much protein, or too much fiber.

There's not really a way to track "healthy" fats in MFP, but I get all my fat calories from nuts, coconut and olive oil and uncured/fresh meats and eggs. Eating healthy fats - I would never feel bad about going "over".

CycleGuy9000

Yeah don't feel bad about it a little extra fat is ok, your body burns a lot of the fat you take in, most of the fat on our bodies is from excess carbs and sugar our body took in that it turned into fat. As far as cholesterol goes I remember reading that eggs have good cholesterol in them and even thought it says 1 egg equals like 40% of your daily intake studies have shown that the good cholesterol in eggs doesn't impact the cholesterol you're trying to keep down in a significant way, don't go crazy on eggs but 1 or two with yolks is not so bad.

I see that some of you are mentioning sugar, I'm driving myself a little nuts trying not to eat to much, so much that I'm afraid to eat fruit now because it has sugar but I wonder is the sugar level mostly for added sugar? How much sugar that is naturally occuring in your food is ok to eat?

FitnessBeverlyHills

Yeah don't feel bad about it a little extra fat is ok, your body burns a lot of the fat you take in, most of the fat on our bodies is from excess carbs and sugar our body took in that it turned into fat. As far as cholesterol goes I remember reading that eggs have good cholesterol in them and even thought it says 1 egg equals like 40% of your daily intake studies have shown that the good cholesterol in eggs doesn't impact the cholesterol you're trying to keep down in a significant way, don't go crazy on eggs but 1 or two with yolks is not so bad.

I see that some of you are mentioning sugar, I'm driving myself a little nuts trying not to eat to much, so much that I'm afraid to eat fruit now because it has sugar but I wonder is the sugar level mostly for added sugar? How much sugar that is naturally occuring in your food is ok to eat?

My opinion yes. Fruit is full of nutrients, has so many health benefits and is low in calories. I don't worry at all if my sugar content is higher from consuming fresh fruits.

neanderthin

Yeah don't feel bad about it a little extra fat is ok, your body burns a lot of the fat you take in, most of the fat on our bodies is from excess carbs and sugar our body took in that it turned into fat. As far as cholesterol goes I remember reading that eggs have good cholesterol in them and even thought it says 1 egg equals like 40% of your daily intake studies have shown that the good cholesterol in eggs doesn't impact the cholesterol you're trying to keep down in a significant way, don't go crazy on eggs but 1 or two with yolks is not so bad.

I see that some of you are mentioning sugar, I'm driving myself a little nuts trying not to eat to much, so much that I'm afraid to eat fruit now because it has sugar but I wonder is the sugar level mostly for added sugar? How much sugar that is naturally occuring in your food is ok to eat?

Some Countries, actually many, have no restrictions on cholesterol consumption and Canada where I'm from is one of them. The saying that the cholesterol in eggs are considered good cholesterol is just the result of more resent studies that finally understand that consuming cholesterol has very little to no impact on serum cholesterol levels and the basic premise as to why Countries don't restrict it. The cholesterol in an egg is no different to any dietary cholesterol, there is no good or bad dietary cholesterol, it's just cholesterol. The good and bad, if we refer them to those terms, is manufactured in the liver and based on our total lifestyle markers then proceeds to produce HDL and LDL lipoproteins all of which have sub categories. some are protective and some atherogenic mostly based on the size of that lipoprotein, the lipoproteins with the least amount of cholesterol in them are the most atherogenic, sounds weird, but true. Sugar, refined carbs in excess produce very small particles (lipoproteins) and why these foods have been associated with CVD and actually reduces our cholesterol levels in our blood, which coincidentally is considered a healthy response by most institutions