Total Daily Fats?

bodyrep
bodyrep Posts: 14 Member
edited November 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Do you subtract saturated, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats from total fats for the day? I notice these three have a negative count and are in red.

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited September 2017
    You can't do that, all fats count towards the total. Anyway, the way poly and mono goals and counts is displayed here, is a flaw, just ignore it. There are no suggested upper limits for poly and mono, just for sat, and total, fat, so they should have had N/A but that was changed to 0 by mistake years ago and never corrected. Better just track "fat", if you feel like tracking macros.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    bodyrep wrote: »
    Do you subtract saturated, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats from total fats for the day? I notice these three have a negative count and are in red.

    No, you don't. (However, what the fat goal is is largely personal preference, you can change it.)

    Those fats are negative because you are over the goal. (Red means over and the negative is how much over.) However, I'd ignore it, as the poly and monounsaturated numbers are due to an MFP bug -- the default should be NA as there is no goal or limit given for them, but for some reason it shows up as 0 in some versions of MFP. Sat has a limit of something like 10% of total calories (might be less), but a lot of people ignore it. I happen to be someone who looks at it from time to time and tries not to overdo sat fat, but I don't worry about it on a daily basis.
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