need more calories with no sugar,fat or protien?

kelliegrinage
kelliegrinage Posts: 7
in Health and Weight Loss
MFP consistently says I am over on fat, protein and sugar but am below on calories, carbs and sodium. Is MFP accurate enough to stress about it? Any snack ideas?

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  • lewisferguson123
    lewisferguson123 Posts: 2
    Don't worry about being over on protein, anything up to 1g of protein per pound of body weight is fine, you won't gain weight from eating more protein than MFP tells you, being over on sugar is probably from eating fruit? Without knowing your diet its hard to say what you can change, 'Fage Total 0%' yoghurt is a great snack, low in fat/sugar, I also have oatmeal as a second breakfast which is mainly carbs so will increase your calories without adding much fat/sugar.
  • kelliegrinage
    kelliegrinage Posts: 7
    Yes most of the sugar I consume is from 2 fruit servings, most of the fat and protein is from nuts
  • schondell
    schondell Posts: 556 Member
    Unsweetened regular oatmeal!
  • lewisferguson123
    lewisferguson123 Posts: 2
    Yeah that will be why, well I see you've lost 18lbs so it must be working for you, if you stop losing weight try halfing your fruit & nut intake.
  • kelliegrinage
    kelliegrinage Posts: 7
    I LOVE oatmeal :) Wonder why I never thought of that lol Thanks!
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    It sounds like your'e already doing everything right.

    Treat your protein and fat as goals to reach or pass, not limits to stay under. And unless you're diabetic, there's no need to track your sugar.

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