Macros not making sense

Roseaqua
Roseaqua Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
After inputting my meals for the day this is what I ended up remaining
Carbs 14g. protein 23g Fat 21g Cals 92

If I make up what's left in grams of the first 3 it goes way over my calories for the day. What am I not seeing here?

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  • jsminer827
    jsminer827 Posts: 62 Member
    The nutrition facts for one or more of your entries is off.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    you have a bad entry - likely one that had more calories than macros or a calories only entry
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    Could be 3 possibilities -

    1) The entry is wrong. Many entries are user submitted and aren't always correct.
    2) Rounding. An entry could be correct, but the math still doesn't work out. I assume this is because things end up getting rounded on the nutritional label such that (fat*9) + (carbs*4) + (protein*4) doesn't always equal total cals.
    3) Alcohol. Alcohol has cals, but doesn't strictly fall into any of the 3 macro categories. Some do have the cals entered as carbs, others do not.

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