% protein vs fat vs carbs
devychevy
Posts: 3 Member
Hi all! Was wondering if anyone knows a faster way to burn off fat at the same time as losing weight by adjusting the settings. Is there a good percentage setting to speed up the process? Anyone out there adjust the settings?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Any feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
0
Replies
-
If I understand you correctly, you would like to adjust your macro nutrient settings?
You can manually set your macros in your goal settings instead of letting MFP choose them automatically.0 -
Yes that's correct. I know you can adjust it manually, but I'm not sure exactly what is a healthy fat burning technique. If you want to do low carbs, how much should you lower it?0
-
In general "low carb" is 120g or less, which is 480 cals. At 1200 calories that's 40%, 2400 cals it's 20% etc.
Atkins etc is generally 5 or 10% carb calories (MFP steps are 5%) with protein 20 - 35 and fat the rest. The protein goal is fairly wide.0 -
I eat fairly low carb. I aim for 10-15% carbs, 65% fat, and the rest protein.0
-
I usually end up around 30% protein, so I don't always hit my goals everyday.0
-
^all of that stuff they said.
If you want to consider keto, drop carbs to 5%. That's about 20-30grams a day.
Fat at 70-75%, protein at 20-25%
Some people do 5/20/80 c/p/f, but that's a little to low on the protein side for me.
A lot of people swear by keto, but do your research.
Dunno if it helps, but Gabriel iglesias (the comedian) started lowcarbing about a year and a half ago and has lost 100+ pounds since then, that's sort of my inspiration for going low carb.
But ultimately, it comes down to calories in, calories out (CICO). You'll drop weight if you eat under your TDEE.0 -
Thanks a ton everyone! I'm going to mess with it!
Is there any issues for cutting down fiber? I was doing low carb for awhile and lost 20-30 pounds without Mfp then since I started logging it i see I'm getting a lot of fat and not hitting enough fiber based on 35% carbs, 25/30...
Thanks!!0
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 392.9K Introduce Yourself
- 43.7K Getting Started
- 260.1K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.8K Food and Nutrition
- 47.4K Recipes
- 232.5K Fitness and Exercise
- 415 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 152.9K Motivation and Support
- 8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.6K MyFitnessPal Information
- 23 News and Announcements
- 1.1K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.5K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions