Help with macros

Hi guys

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this. I eat a clean diet and have just started to take my diet more seriously tracking my macros. Now according to all my figure eg bmr, activity level, grams per body weigh etc I should be consuming around 50g of fat per day. I've only been tracking for a week now and my fat is always over. I'm building muscle ( obviously gaining weight) so my diet is very 'meathead' based :-) - lots of protein. My fat intake always comes out about the 80g mark.
Example of things I'm eating - approximate fat in grams as I know everyone has different types/ inputs etc
Breakfast 3 eggs - 18 g
Snacks - 25g almonds - 14g
Snack - Peanut butter with fruit - 10 g
Then with a small amount of cheese, fruit, veg and chicken it all adds up to around 80g.
Right/ wrong/ too much?
Any input or advice would be great.

Thanks

Similar problems for me when i started tracking mate, so heres my insight for what its worth,
(I aim for 65 fats per day) and all this is proper basic advice but ya never know

Depending what your doing with eggs, do you really need the yolk? i tend to keep one yolk to 3 egg whites and the taste isnt all that bad at all to be honest,
and i swapped out most steak and red meats for turkey and chicken to keep fats down,
i also buy the lowest fat cheese i can so i can get more in my meals with less fat
with you saying 'meat head' diet keep an eye on protein bars etc pre packed ones in particular, maybe make your own?
and last you said snacking on almonds, why? i only really use nuts when my fat levels are low, so maybe leave them out to bring your fat up and replace the calories with carbs, thats what id do

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I think macros work better when you think of them as a range rather than a set number. For example 50-70g.
Maybe try replacing some of the meat based protein with lowfat dairy or beans or something.

There is virtually no evidence that dietary cholesterol contributes to bad blood cholesterol levels.

My advice, go on iifym.com, go to the calculator and plug in your stats. It'll give you a daily calories and macro intake. Make sure to fit your macros. The general consensus is to go higher carb on workout days (330g for me) and higher fats on rest days (100-130g). If you don't like the iifym calculators, look up the iF calculator.

If you're in a deficit, your macros are less important. Most of those calculators have you in a slight deficit on rest days or just at maintenance, and at that point, there's little reason NOT to keep your dietary fat high. Fat is good for you.

Sorry why is it important to keep fat down? I have around 70-80g fat a day, maintaining (losing inches, not kgs) and weightlifting.

Explain?

Sorry why is it important to keep fat down? I have around 70-80g fat a day, maintaining (losing inches, not kgs) and weightlifting.

Explain?

70-80g isn't really much. I average 100g or so, and that's following the .5g per lb guideline. Basically it goes as follows: it's easiest to stay healthy and injury-free by keeping a minimum amount of dietary fat (see above). It's easiest to build muscle by keeping a minimum amount of protein intake (opinions vary but somewhere between 1g per lb LBM and 1g per lb body weight is pretty common). The rest is filled with carbs when bulking, usually, cause carbs fuel the workouts you perform when trying to gain and assist in protein synthesis and are less easily converted to adipose than dietary fat.

When cutting, you can go a couple of different ways. One is to keep the same formula but decrease calories. Another is to cut the carbs way back and increase fat intake, mostly because fat is more satiating and you don't have to worry about depositing the dietary fat as stored fat if you're eating in a deficit. This leads close to keto during cut cycles for some people, but different folks have varying levels of success with keto, and if you're on an extended cut, it can be wearying.