Macro check

kshanley1231

Hey everyone I was hoping someone can do a macro check for me! I'm 5'5, 158 and my goal is weight loss. I work a physical job and get 10-12k steps a day and do Beachbody workouts at home. Thank you!

AnnPT77

What do you mean by macro check?

If you haven't cut calories too extremely (shooting for aggressively fast weight loss), the MFP default goals aren't awful for most people.

You're pretty active, so if you're adding those calories (or synching a tracker), and using free MFP (or premium without doing settings changes), your macro goals will increase proportionate to exercise calories, which may or may not be a better result.

I see your profile says female. I'm your height, 5'5", weigh 128 pounds, in maintenance, active, age 66, figure I'm maybe around or just below 25% bodyfat (so figure mid-90s pounds lean mass), and target 100g minimum protein, 50g minimum fats, usually exceed those (intentionally); don't care where carbs end up at all. The goals were a little lower when I was losing, due to lower calorie budget, but not lots lower. If your workouts are strength-focused, you might want a higher minimum protein goal, maybe up to 1.2g per pound of healthy goal weight?

kshama2001

Once you hit macro minimums, fussing with macros just benefits personal satiety, and so is only indirectly related to weight loss.

Many of us focus on protein. Here's a reputable protein calculator:

https://examine.com/nutrition/protein-intake-calculator/

I shoot for 400 - 500 calories of exercise per day, and when I achieve that, using the MFP default of 20% protein aligns with the protein recommendation from examine. If I were completely sedentary, I'd need to bump it up to 30%.