Percentage of Carbs/Fat/Protein on Food Tracker

boltnut55
boltnut55 Posts: 6 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm sure someone here can help me. I'm trying to come up with the goals for my food tracker: calories, carbs, fat, protein, etc. However, I noticed that if I make changes to either carbs, fat, and protein, it adjusts the other two numbers. Are they connected? Can I disconnect them? For example, I'm aiming for 2,000 calories (should probably change that to 1,800 though) and 130 carbs because I'm diabetic. At the same time, I want to watch my fat, but that leaves me with high protein, which I don't want either.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

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  • CA_Underdog
    CA_Underdog Posts: 733 Member
    All (non-alcoholic) calories come from either carbs, fat, or protein. Thus, for any reasonable fixed calorie count, going low carbs and low fat necessarily means going high protein.

    Unless you plan to do lots of drinking. ;)
  • Ms_J1
    Ms_J1 Posts: 253 Member
    Fat, carbs, and protein are the three sources calories come from so they must total 100%. For example, you can't have 20% fat, 30% carbs, and 40% protein, because that only totals 90%.
  • Ms_J1
    Ms_J1 Posts: 253 Member
    Of course, fiber screws it all up but I won't go there.
  • boltnut55
    boltnut55 Posts: 6 Member
    Darn it. I was hoping that wasn't the answer... that makes it hard because I think I'm supposed to have about 130 carbs minimum, but even if I have more, like 190 grams, that still leaves me with a lot of fat and protein... guess I'll have to play w/the numbers a little more. Thanks.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Darn it. I was hoping that wasn't the answer... that makes it hard because I think I'm supposed to have about 130 carbs minimum, but even if I have more, like 190 grams, that still leaves me with a lot of fat and protein... guess I'll have to play w/the numbers a little more. Thanks.

    if you're eating low carb, why would you not want to eat more fats and protein?

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