Please help me understand calories and macros...

yosedomm
yosedomm Posts: 4 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I understand the concept of calories and macros. I'm trying to stick to my ratios, however, I always end up only eating about 560 calories throughout the day. It helps me now because I'm about 40 lbs. overweight. I am 38 years old, male, 242lbs. wanting to go down to 200lbs.

Now, I understand that I'm not eating enough, however, if I eat more, I feel extremely full and I surpass my macros.

Also, looking at my stats, it looks like I'm consuming more protein that I should and not even half of the carbs I should be consuming. Am I doing this right?

All help understanding this, will be greatly appreciated.

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I'm 43...I lost about 40 Lbs eating 2200-2300 calories per day.

    If you're overweight you were eating way more than 560 calories...hell, my breakfast is 500+ calories.

    You wouldn't surpass your macros eating more...your macros make up your calories. 4 calories per gram of carbohydrate...4 calories per gram of protein...9 calories per gram of dietary fat.

    Eat food...
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    Are you looking at the pie chart? That shows the macro percentage balance of what you've eaten so far today. The pie chart showing that you are a higher percentage on protein and a lower percentage on carbs than your macro goal lets you see that you might want to have more carbs with your next meal to get those percentages closer to where you want them.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    No one is extremely full on 560 calories - if you are accurately logging I'd see a doctor to address whatever problem is going on there.

    Also you can't surpass your macros if you're not even eating your calories. That's not how it works.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    1. You are not surpassing your macros. They are tracked as a percentage of what you eat.
    2. You have to eat 3-4 times as much as you are now, or else you are grossly underestimating the weight of your food. Are you weighing everything?
    3. If you are overfull at a sitting, wait twenty minutes and eat more.
  • yosedomm
    yosedomm Posts: 4 Member
    Thank you all for replying... I guess I'm understanding now looking at the pie chart a bit better, I am short on food, but I'm eating good, I barely stared eating clean about a week ago. I already went from 242 to 237.5 after weighting myself a while ago. I'm just concerned with everyone saying you need to eat the 1500 to 1800 calories. According to my macros I need to eat 1550 calories to lose about 2.5 lbs per week.

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