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Macros

bc92487
bc92487 Posts: 22 Member
edited February 5 in Health and Weight Loss
I noticed today that I went over by 9 on my protein... Is this a bad thing? The carbs and fat are good. I'm still trying to eliminate some sodium and a bit of sugar... I'm a hot cocoa junkie... I'm still trying to figure out this macro thing by the way... I guess I could call my nutritionist in the morning... But usually I wind up having to go see her and all that lovely stuff... Tomorrow is kind of busy enough so maybe you guys can shed some light on this.

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  • Dougf90
    Dougf90 Posts: 95 Member
    You'll be fine, I honestly feel like a lot of people's protein goals on here are usually set a bit too low anyways.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,137 Member
    Yeah, unless you've been given medical advice for some special reason not to go over, I wouldn't worry about it. I sometimes have a hard time hitting even the low level MFP sets (15% of calories?), so I'm happy to go over a bit. If it's not causing you to go over your calorie goals and it's not crowding out your other macros to ridiculously low levels, and you're not trying to following some non-MFP-default strict percentage formula for body-building or other purpose, going over your protein goal by 9 grams is not something to stress over.
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