Calories Vs Nutrition?

PhoenixRising11

Over the past two weeks I've been making sure my calorie intake is below or on par with what the app suggests.
I've found that when I look at the nutrition tab it usually tells me I'm over on my total carbs. (This breaks down into dietary fiber and Sugars)

Should I be worried about the red numbers?
Is it harmful for me to be having too many dietary fiber or sugared carbs?

Everything I'm eating is healthy food so I'm a little confused as to whether I should be worried about this?

emlov81

I'm over most days on both sugar and fibre!! I only eat a one or two pieces of fruit and this pushes it over, but i don't worry about it. I figure its fruit and not chocolate and naughty sweet things that are pushing me over.

Its working for me, have lost quite a bit of weight now and am usually over on those things!!

Hope this helps

:bigsmile:

Atlantique

The default macronutrient breakdown for MFP includes 55% carbs, so yes, I'd worry if you are going over that as that means you are probably shorting yourself on protein and fats. The bulk of your carbs should be coming from vegetables, a little fruit and maybe naturally occuring sugars in dairy products. It should not be coming from white flour--bread, cake, crackers, cookies, pasta, etc.

It's fine to go over on fiber, as MFP has a very low fiber goal. women should be shooting for 25g per day and men 30g.

JennLifts

It also will tell you if you're over on sugar and fiber, not just carbs.
A) Fiber is good to get more of in my opinion!
Sugar is something you want to be coming from natural sources. So if you're going over because of oreos or chips, not super idea.
C) You want to stay equal to or less than the carb number. Over by 5 won't kill you. Over by 200... not good haha. You can do net carbs if it's easier for you. (Carbs-fiber)

emlov81

It also will tell you if you're over on sugar and fiber, not just carbs.
A) Fiber is good to get more of in my opinion!
Sugar is something you want to be coming from natural sources. So if you're going over because of oreos or chips, not super idea.
C) You want to stay equal to or less than the carb number. Over by 5 won't kill you. Over by 200... not good haha. You can do net carbs if it's easier for you. (Carbs-fiber)

Well put!!

PhoenixRising11

Ok thanks.
I don't eat sweets or biscuits or anything unhealthy so when I do go over it is only through healthy foods. That's why I was a little confused.
I only ever eat a guideline amount of pasta (what it says one persons portion should be) or even less. If I have bread in a day I won't have pasta to try and stop those types of carbs.
I don't know whether my carb intake allowance will be less as I can't exercise so I'm unable to burn energy that you would usually eat slow burning carbs for?

Take Monday for instance:
It says that I went over my Total Carb intake by 18
Dietary Fiber = -3
Sugars = -25

I wasn't worried about the dietary fiber but being so much over the sugars was kind of worrying.

I looked through all the foods I ate and it seems breakfast was the worst when all I had was an Oat So Simple Porridge sachet with 185ml of semi skimmed milk totaling 216 calories.
This porridge had 32.8g total carbs - dietary fiber = 2.5g and sugars = 16.4g

The other bad thing was fruit such as a banana which had 27g total carbs - dietary fiber = 3g and sugars = 14g

I thought both of these foods that are so high in sugared carbs were healthy?
This has made me confused about what is and what isn't when it comes to nutrition.

I've still lost 6lbs in two weeks though so I must be doing something right.

joanneeee

please don't stop eating bananas ... they are absolutely fine to eat. i eat one every day.
if you're eating some store bought porridge (with all ingredients added in), yeah that is pretty bad for you because of all the crap they add in. make your own oatmeal and it'll be much healthier without all the sugars and unknowns.

kacarter1017

If what you're eating is healthy (fruits, yogurt, etc) I wouldn't be too worried about it. if it's processed, high sodium, high refined carb crap, then you should make some changes.

Both the caloric goal and the nutrition goals are important, but fiber and sugar(if from healthy sources) are 2 that I don't worry too much about.

PhoenixRising11

Thanks guys.

I'm not going to worry about it too much and I will definitely not stop eating bananas! I love them!
I will try making my own porridge but I buy the sachets for convenience really and stocked up on 3 boxes!