Calories left but not much else

Trish9201
Trish9201 Posts: 10
in Health and Weight Loss
At the end of days I'm noticing that I have calories left 500ish but not fat, protein or carbs left. My husband tried to help readjust my day with me but it is still happening. What am I doing wrong. If you look at my food diary, today was a bad bad day therefore my snack spending is quite high but I still have calories left. I've planned for tomorrow in advance to see if that would help but I am still 555 under and I haven't exercised yet. I am assuming I am supposed to eat my breastfeeding calories but not my exercise calories (unless hungry of course). Can anyone help?

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  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    I don't think your diary is set to public view.
  • kentmac
    kentmac Posts: 101 Member
    Go to settings -> diary settings -> privacy settings

    and change it to public, that way we can look at it.

    The most likely culprit is that some of the foods you're putting in your diary aren't accurate in the MFP database. Sometimes the calories don't add up with the macros...
  • chica23GK
    chica23GK Posts: 100 Member
    Could be your choice of foods are high in fat, etc. - it happens to me. I find I just need to increase my vegetable intake for more calories without the extra fat ... when I want to be a good girl :)
  • SueBee7777
    SueBee7777 Posts: 6
    I have that problem too!! I can't figure it out! :( I figure I am not going to worry about it until I stop losing any pounds! :glasses:
  • Trish9201
    Trish9201 Posts: 10
    I changed the settings.
  • lilmisfit
    lilmisfit Posts: 860 Member
    What do you have your macros set to?
  • Trish9201
    Trish9201 Posts: 10
    What are macros?
  • lilmisfit
    lilmisfit Posts: 860 Member
    Protein, fat, and carbs. Check your settings.
  • Jose2828
    Jose2828 Posts: 80
    Thanks I am having the same problem,
  • mkscharp
    mkscharp Posts: 3 Member
    I'm pretty sure this is caused by your breastfeeding entry. It subtracts from your total calories spent, but doesn't add anything to your goal calories. So it also doesn't add anything to your macros. Is there a way to add breastfeeding as exercise? That should adjust your macros properly.
  • elisabeisme
    elisabeisme Posts: 308 Member
    It's because of how you are entering breast feeding. It's entered as a negative calorie food with no associated negative macros.

    I think some of the other breastfeeding entries have negative macros.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/nutrition-facts-calories/breastfeeding
  • mkscharp
    mkscharp Posts: 3 Member
    I can't find a way to add it as exercise. You could manually adjust your calorie goal. There may be another way. There are groups here for breastfeeding; maybe you could find some help there. The reality is you do have carbs/fat/protein left. You just don't know exactly how much because it didn't account for the 500 extra calories. Hope you can figure it out!
  • sarahz5
    sarahz5 Posts: 1,363 Member
    My breastfeeding entry has macros... I use the one for -200 with something like "older baby or infrequent feedings." You could always just do 2.5 of those if nothing else works! ETA - Or you could just adjust your calories upward by 500... since I assume you are BFing every day!
  • Trish9201
    Trish9201 Posts: 10
    :happy: Thanks so much everyone! You have all been so helpful!

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