Awkward AF to do macro focused meal planning, wisdom to share?

DaughterOfDragons
DaughterOfDragons Posts: 1 Member
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Hi, I'm starting a food plan based on macro ratios and I am trying to use MFP for it. I see how I can set my goals with macros. What I am super challenged by is creating my own recipes to hit those goals because the recipe window doesn't show me the % data I need to tweak it to fit my goals. I make all my own food to ensure clean, organic and meets my specific boundaries on what is in/out. But I just spent 20 minutes trying to create a basic breakfast meal recipe I can use. The recipe as I was inputting different things didn't allow me to see macro data so I pulled up an excel sheet alongside (annoying but I'm willing to be resourceful to a point) but then those counts were not accurate compared to the full nutritional data, which I could only see after saving the recipe and then going back in to view the recipe. same problem when I go into edit the recipe view: no access to the nutritional data until I save and exit. VERY ponderous to then get things where I need them to be. If this isn't solvable by someone teaching me some useful newbie lesson, I'm canceling my subscription. Someone else must have figured this out for real use.

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  • kim76w
    kim76w Posts: 1 Member
    Are you using the free version or the premium version?
  • Maxxitt
    Maxxitt Posts: 1,281 Member
    No reason to hit macros on each meal as long as you are close to goal by the end of your eating day.
  • placeboBL
    placeboBL Posts: 62 Member
    As mentioned above, daily totals are far more important than meal by meal totals. Generally what I do is add items individually to my diary instead of making recipes all the time. The recipe function has some advantages, but I find it flawed.

    Make a guess for breakfast and lunch based on your macro percentage and then when you get to dinner, see what’s left. If you were pretty carb heavy at lunch and breakfast, have extra fat and protein at dinner.

    It takes a couple of weeks to really get in the swing of it. I would honestly suggest just diving in with a decent guess if you’re truly a newbie. +/- 10 grams of protein isn’t really going to make that much of a difference.

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