CALORIES? CARBS? FAT? SUGAR? SODIUM? WHATS YOUR FOCUS?
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I am watching calories, fat, sugar, and sodium and carbs. I am always red on the Vitamin A and C.0
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I try to keep my protein and fat high, while eating low-moderate carbs.
I gave up on sodium.0 -
calories but i try to eat over my protein and fiber and stay under on cholesterol0
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I pay attention mostly to calories, sodium and fat. Sodium is one of the things I focus on a lot because it is in everything and sometims your daily amount of sodium can be all in one place if you're not careful!0
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Calories, sodium and potassium. I had not realized before MFP how deficient in Potassium I was.0
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I try to keep my sodium and sugar low
my iron and protein high
my calories even0 -
1. Sodium under 2300
2. Calories at 2000
I don't worry about carbs, fat, protein too much, but I hate seeing the red numbers.0 -
Calories and carbs...Calories because my doc said to lose weight you have to burn more than you take in...Sugar because I am diabetic.0
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1. Calories
2. Sodium0 -
Mostly calories and fat, I try to make sure they're always in the green. I always go over on protein but I don't mind that due to strength training.0
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1. Calories (to calculate...)
2. Protein
3. Fat
4. Carbs
If I get my protein and fat right, I'm all good. I don't worry about sodium or sugar, because I eat mostly veggies and other foods from raw. I eat as few processed foods as possible, so I get little unnatural sodium (there is sodium in everything we eat, just not in the form of salt). I also don't eat any refined sugar at all.
I don't buy into the whole "too much sodium will make you gain weight/hold onto a lot of weight" deal. Two days in a row, I ate over 7000 mg of sodium (they were bad days) but I still lost weight during those three days. I feel carbs have a larger impact on water gains and losses than sodium does. That all depends on your glycogen stores.
That being said, I do not suggest eating more than 1500mg every day.0 -
Calories first and then sodium. High sodium days cause you to retain water and my legs swell up when I eat high sodium.
I think this has also been a very big contributing factor to my need for medication to control HBP.
Since January of this year when I got serious about my weight loss and using MFP, I've really been watching my sodium. At my last doctor's appt about a month and a half ago, my doctor has reduced my BP meds to less than half what I was taking before. She told me I continue to lose weight and control my sodium intake, I can probably be taken off the BP meds altogether. That is my goal right now!
That was a huge NSV for me and why Sodium is priority.0 -
Most of the time I do go over on sugar, but the others are very easy to keep under for me. And I also try to eat 100g of protein or more.0
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Calories for losing weight and protein for keeping/gaining muscle.
Not too bothered by the rest.
Some time I'm going to give it a go keeping my sodium intake low and see if it makes a difference, but generally done ok eating lots of high sodium foods. Don't have high blood pressure etc.0 -
Calories, Carbs and fat. Usually i'm under on carbs but over in fat. I watch sugar and sodium too.0
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Calories only; I figure that if I can keep the calories under control, and eating fairly clean, all the rest of it will naturally fall in line.0
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I posted this in another thread but still applies:
Calories come from (3) MACRO-nutrients - Fat, Protein, and Carbs. Everything else (fiber, sugar, saturated fat, etc) is subset of these 3 main biggies - otherwise known as MICRO-nutrients. Set up your macronutrients so that you are eating at least 1 gram of protein for your LEAN body weight - it's a goal, sometimes I hit, sometimes I don't. Make the next highest percentage fat, and then carbs. NOTE, 1 gram of Fat = 9 calories, 1 gram of Protein = 4 calories, and 1 gram of carbs = 4 calories.
NOTE: eating FAT does not make you FAT
That's an interesting approach. I also do 1g of protein per LBM, but I can hit that with my protein set to 25% of calories. So I do fat for the other 25% then carbohydrates for half my calories. I am not sure why you want want more fat than carbs.
The percentages and the "fat does not make you fat" slogan most likely means a Paleo/Primal diet.0 -
Calories
Sugar
Carbs0 -
Calories, sodium and potassium. I had not realized before MFP how deficient in Potassium I was.
If you are using the MFP database to track potassium you may not be as deficient as you think. Many foods that contain potassium don't list it in the database.0 -
Calories, Carbs and fat. Usually i'm under on carbs but over in fat. I watch sugar and sodium too.0
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