Help me please

TheGoalDigger
TheGoalDigger Posts: 159 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I've been eating pretty clean lately and it's so hard for me to meet my daily calorie intake. I found a way to bring it up but when I do, I always go over (fats, fiber, sugars, vitamin A, vitamin C and Iron). Does it really matter if I do as long as i am consuming them the healthy way?

Here's an idea for today

Carbs: -7
Fat: -15
Fiber: -42
Sugars: -60
Vitamin A: -675%
Vitamin C: -289%
Iron: -7%

I also started using a multivitamin today, I think I just might have to stop it.

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  • arendas08
    arendas08 Posts: 10
    Sounds like your making it more difficult on yourself...whats your goal for calories in a day? dont worry about vitamin percentages and small things like that. Calorie goals are all about having a daily plan. For example lets say your goal is 2000 a day you want to break that up in to 3 main meals consisting of about 500 calories with 3 different snack times consisting of 150-200 calories. PLAN PLAN PLAN...make it a hobby to be healthy.
  • TheGoalDigger
    TheGoalDigger Posts: 159 Member
    My calorie goal is 1800. I eat healthy, I just want to know if it doesn't matter if I go over certain things or not and if it will affect me.
  • KenosFeoh
    KenosFeoh Posts: 1,837 Member
    Just take the information and make use of it. For example, I notice that I go over on fats quite often, which reminds me that I need to make less fatty choices and maybe have the chicken breast instead of the nuts, etc. Use the info but don't stress over it.
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Whose goals are you using, MFP? You can adjust those if you wish, many are minimums not maximums or targets. You went 42g over on your fibre intake, if so how? Are you aware excessive fibre can bind certain nutrients?

    Vitamin C is water soluble so you just pee out any excess, it's only bad if you mega dose with supplements then suddenly stop, you can get rebound scurvy! There are two forms of iron haem (meat, fish) and non-haem (plants): if you consume non haem you need more than if you have haem because the latter is more bioavailable (easily absorbed and utilised).

    Similarly there is more than one form of vitamin A, the most bioavailable/ active form can build up over time and can be toxic in high doses, this is a risk with eating a lot of foods like liver. But most times you are actually eating the precursor (inactive form) beta carotene (in plants) which might make you look a tad orange if you went nuts on it for a long time but nothing more sinister. Are you eating a balance of the different colours of fruit and veggies (blue/ purple, dark green, orange/ yellow, red)?

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