Not enough Protein-I am shocked.

What the heck it's afternoon and I just ate my lunch and I logged it but it is telling me that I am -10 in protein. Holy cow! Any suggestions or ideas? One thing I can think of is I need to switch my breakfast maybe. Been eating cereal but thinking I need to switch to hard boiled eggs. Any rate, any suggestions would be great. Thanks all!

Aren't you going to eat again later?

Same question.

Hi. I went to a nutritionist and she suggested that I add protein powder to get more protein. I have a protein smoothy every morning, try to have protein in my salad for lunch and protein for dinner. I think I get about 110 grams of protein a day (I weigh about 150 now and am trying to lose fat and get down to 140 lbs). The smoothy has about a cup of strawberries, 1 scoop protein powder, 1 tbsp flax seed and 1 tbs chia seeds. I also sometimes have a pumpkin smoothy which I put in 1/2 cup of pumpkin, cinnamon and pumpkin spices instead of the fruit. They are delicious and fill me up all the way until lunch time.

I can't see your food diary so I can't give recommendations. I think the protein levels is set rather low. I'm over a lot. Cheers!

Can you open diary so we can understand better what you mean by "-10"? I would assume as another did that this means you are over. Being over in protein is fine.

Hang on , if you've got -10 left in protein, that means you've gone over, not under doesn't it??

This, but if you're using the default values then I'd probably bump up my protein if I were you.

Having no idea how tall you are it's hard to tell what your protein level should be. Protein is great but you also need a healthy blend of carbs and fats. Can you give us more info so we can help you find the right goals?

What the heck it's afternoon and I just ate my lunch and I logged it but it is telling me that I am -10 in protein. Holy cow! Any suggestions or ideas? One thing I can think of is I need to switch my breakfast maybe. Been eating cereal but thinking I need to switch to hard boiled eggs. Any rate, any suggestions would be great. Thanks all!

I would love to see your food diary to see the rest of your diet. If you can share, it would be great

Unless you modified your macros, I am betting you don't eat enough protein anyway. Change the goals settings in MFP to be something more like 40 carb / 30 protein / 30 fat.

This^^^

MFP's default settings are really high on carbs and low on the protein. Is the -10 you're seeing in red? If so, this means you've exceeded the goal for that macro...as others have stated, not a big deal in RE to protein especially since MFP has those numbers so low.

I agree with the 40/30/30 or do a 50/25/25 if that's a bit easier.

Kashi makes some good high-protein/high fiber cereals.

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Okay, sorry everyone I am still kind of learning my way around. I will open it up and let you have a look at it once I figure it out. OMG!! This is going to be so embarassing. :blushing:

And you bet your heiny I am gonna eat dinner tonight but it looks like it will be lean meat or maybe some leftover mahi mahi.

Thanks all!!!

Settings - Goals - Change Goals...then you can change the percentages for your macros.

It puts the whey into the cup or else it gets the hose again.

that made me pee a little