Nutrition goal failure

jemhh wrote: »

I only pay attention to calories, protein, fat, and carbs. Anything more encourages analysis paralysis.

Me too.

As for the fat, I think it's set to 0 because there is no RDI.
someone will come in an explain it better!

The saturated is a limit not a goal and it is based on a percent of total fat.

As stated, poly and mono have no RDI so hence no goal or upper limit. A lot of foods don't always list them. (Same for potassium-I am always super low on MFP but actually exceed my goal-just those crappy entries)

Focus on keeping the saturated within your limit and you're fine. Also, don't expect to hit every goal every day-it's not realistic. Look at your weekly nutrition and determine if there is something you're missing.

Last, you can always manually adjust your goals. Personally, I change my macros (protein, carbs and fat), increase my fiber and sugar goal, and always try to exceed my calcium goal.

slaite1 wrote: »

A lot of foods don't always list them. (Same for potassium-I am always super low on MFP but actually exceed my goal-just those crappy entries)

I just found this thread, after a quick search (= "potassium"), given that I was curious about whether anyone had discussed the fact that various milk and yogurt entries in the database have no potassium values entered (even if listed on the label!) -- I just discovered this today (and not long ago), after wondering how on earth my potassium values, per the MFP reporting feature, were supposedly so low, despite my being aware that I ingest quite a bit of potassium (and even if only looking at my milk and yogurt consumption).

I ended up looking at the actual 'nutrition fact' values from the database entries I'd used (for the specific milk and yogurt variants that I consume) (and I hadn't just randomly selected the entries for such -- then again, I hadn't actually checked *all* of the nutrition fact specs for each, when initially selecting them (my bad, and lesson learned)).

So I created new entries for me to use, and I went back over (and corrected) yesterday's entries for those items, just to take a peek at what the new/correct potassium-specific total ended up being, and suffice it to say, it's dramatically different. Whereas it originally indicated a supposed deficiency, I happen to be exceeding the MFP-generated goal, and by an amount that I'm happy with.

slaite1 wrote: »

Last, you can always manually adjust your goals. Personally, I change my macros (protein, carbs and fat), increase my fiber and sugar goal, and always try to exceed my calcium goal.

Thanks for mentioning this... I somehow forgot that we can change those numbers. I should manually adjust mine in a few places, as the current associated values for a few of the specs don't currently reflect the values for my 'true' goals (including fiber (I also don't like seeing the 'displayed in red' (and looks like a highlighted 'huh oh', in a way) value for fiber in each day's food diary, given that I *want* to always exceed the default -- and it's not a bad thing! )).