Getting recommended foods based on macros.

KrAzYKrivda

I was previously using noom where foods fell into categories (red, yellow, green) and calorie goals were broken up by category. You could also easily see types of food in each category.

Obviously MFP is more advanced and tracks goals by more detailed things, like fat, protein, and carbs. And foods contribute to all categories at once.

Is there way to get a recommended meal or food based on my remaining calories for the day, and helping me hit the right goals. For example, I have 330 cals left, and I have the space in carbs and protein, but not much left in fat.

AnnPT77

No, MFP doesn't have a feature like that.

Can I point out that macros don't need to be exactly exact, so no need to stress? That's true. Technically, protein and fats contain essential nutrients, things our bodies can't manufacture out of anything else, so if you care about nutrition, it's reasonable to treat protein and fats more as minimums than limits. Carbs are more flexible, because our bodies can manufacture carb-equivalents out of other stuff, loosely speaking.

If weight loss is your key goal, that's directly about calories. Nutrition may have an effect, such as through appetite (so can't stick to calorie goal) or fatigue (so move less, burn fewer calories than expected), but the direct mechanism is calories. Nutrition is important for other reasons, of course.

Therefore, when it comes to nutrients, "pretty good on average over a few days" should be fine, no need to stress. If persistently way low on protein or fats, it would be good to tweak routine eating habits so that pattern disappears, but don't worry, malnutrition onset is very slow, and not going to happen at all if you are in the vicinity of very good values, so you can do that gradually: No need to be perfect from day 1.

If you'd like to stay close on macros, there are a bunch of charts like the one below on the web, or the new AI tools in web search might be able to answer questions like that. (I'd verify there theory against other sources, though!)

I'm not necessarily endorsing this particular web site as a whole, don't know much about it, but the chart is an example of a thing you can find in lots of places that might help with a question like this.



Source: https://www.workingagainstgravity.com/articles/17-macro-tracking-tips

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