Calories from fat

LaComadreja14

I have some questions about Calories from fat... some may sound dumb, but please bare with me- I am a noob and I don't know a ton about nutrition

1. Is it important to pay attention to how many calories from fat are in an item? If so, why isn't it in the food diary?
2. Is it more important to pay attention to calories from fat or grams of fat?
3. If something has 400 calories and 100 calories from fat, does it have 500 calories total oooooor is it that 100 of the 400 calories are calories from fat?
4. If something has 200 calories 0 calories from fat how can it have any grams of fat? (ex. Zatarains New Orleans style rice pilaf has 200 calories, zero from fat and .5g of fat.. i know thats still not a lot of grams but I just want to understand fully)
5. How do you know how many calories of fat you've burned? Like if I burn 192 Calories from jogging, how many of them are calories from fat .... or is that just a concern when your eating?

Thank you in advance

Pandorian

fat is 9 calories per gram.
You want some healthy choices of fat like olive oil, coconut oil, saturated fat is fine, trans fat is not.

If something has 400 calories then it's 300 calories from things that aren't your 100 calories of fat.

fat grams x 9 = calories from fat

As for 5 you just want to keep in your goals. It'll differ how much comes from what source.

MikeSEA

1. yes, kind of. I mean that it's important to pay attention to how many calories you're consuming. Excess calories, be they from carbs fats or proteins, are still excess calories. Not sure about yours, but my diary is set to show fats, so that I don't know about.
2. 6 of 1. if you know that fat provides about 9 cal/g then it doesn't really matter.
3. no, it's 400 total calories, 100 of which happen to be from fat.
4. i would guess that has more to do with what they're allowed to put on a nutrition label. Go by how many grams of fat it says.
5. It's sort of personal and depends on what you're doing and how hard you're doing it. You could get an HRM (heart rate monitor) that would let you know what zone you're exercising in, but it's really not something I'd be concerned with. I think it probably over complicates what can be a fairly simple process of just eating to a caloric deficit.

EDIT: Do remember that your body does need fats. Just stay away from trans fats.

LaComadreja14

Thank you!