Calories and fat in supplements

skippygolunks

Do you include the calorie/fat count in supplements? Fish oil has 45 calories and 5 gm of fat per tsp. Other thing I take also have calories. I have an Autoimmune Disease so I take a lot of supplements. I’m going high on my fat macros because of it.

apullum

If you eat it, count it.

You don't need to worry about going over on fat unless your doctor has specifically told you that you need to restrict fat in order to treat a medical condition.

MikePTY

A calorie from a supplement is still a calorie. So you should add it.

Agreed with apullum that unless it is a medical issue you don't need to worry about going over on the macro if you are staying within your overall calorie goal

NovusDies

I do but I "umbrella" mine under one. I am not going to list the D with coconut oil in addition to the fish oil so I just increase the serving size of the fish oil to include the calories from the D.

VegjoyP

Yes I do. It adds up plus it still counts

Justin_7272

You should count them. In your diary settings you could break out a category ("Meal Names") as supplements; this is how I distinguish protein powder, vitamins, etc. from my normal meals/snacks/etc.

sardelsa

If you want to be more accurate, I would count then especially if there are quite a few supplements you take. Add them in one day and see if the calorie total is worth counting to you.

NovusDies

sardelsa wrote: »

If you want to be more accurate, I would count then especially if there are quite a few supplements you take. Add them in one day and see if the calorie total is worth counting to you.

Actually if there is quite a few I would make a "daily supplement" recipe if you don't want to umbrella them.

grimendale

I take the same things at the same time each day (with food), so I tend to just include them as part of that meal and copy over from one day to the next. Most of them are few to no calories, but I still want to track them as part of my micros.

kshama2001

I count my fish oil and blackstrap molasses.

I don't worry about going over on fat though - for losing weight, only a calorie deficit matters, not your macros.

If you don't like seeing yourself in the red for fat you can change the default macros here: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/my_goals/daily_nutrition_goals

panda4153

I do no log them, however my reason for not doing so is that it’s less then 100 calories a day for mine and if I find I am not losing I am not going go stop taking my vitamins and supplements, I would adjust my diet elsewhere in order Ron start losing again.

snickerscharlie

Yup, I log them. I created a 'meal' from them and just add 1 in each day.

saraonly9913

Never dawned on me to count the calories in fish oil! I'm taking 60 calories of fish oil a day! Thanks for this post.