Depends what you're counting as carbs. Veggies are carbs. Fruit is carbs. So you're getting plenty of carbs, technically. Question is, are you choosing the right kind of carbs at the right times of day? Mix of simple and complex sugars help to balance energy so you don't crash as fast.

@fitcrt I had great macros for ages and lost no weight. At all. Just give the program a try. Three weeks from now if you 1) don't lose weight and 2) don't feel stronger/better then by all means tweak the containers if you think that will help. But beachbody has a lot of scientists and nutritionists working to create and design these programs and they have been tested on men and women of all shapes and sizes and ages. MFP is a great tool but it is designed to follow national averages and recommendations. If the RDA worked for everyone, then none of us would have a hard time losing weight. We'd just follow our macros and be good to go. And for me that means I wouldn't have wasted trying to lose weight for the past 7 years because even my doctor and nutritionist couldn't find any flaws in my diet. Up until my vacation, I'd lost nearly 30 lbs and I did that following the 21 Day Fix meal plan. And you know what they say--Losing weight is 90% diet and 10% exercise. From what I can see, following the meal plan as designed won't hurt for 3 weeks. See where you are then and change--or don't--accordingly.

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@fitcrt I had great macros for ages and lost no weight. At all. Just give the program a try. Three weeks from now if you 1) don't lose weight and 2) don't feel stronger/better then by all means tweak the containers if you think that will help. But beachbody has a lot of scientists and nutritionists working to create and design these programs and they have been tested on men and women of all shapes and sizes and ages. MFP is a great tool but it is designed to follow national averages and recommendations. If the RDA worked for everyone, then none of us would have a hard time losing weight. We'd just follow our macros and be good to go. And for me that means I wouldn't have wasted trying to lose weight for the past 7 years because even my doctor and nutritionist couldn't find any flaws in my diet. Up until my vacation, I'd lost nearly 30 lbs and I did that following the 21 Day Fix meal plan. And you know what they say--Losing weight is 90% diet and 10% exercise. From what I can see, following the meal plan as designed won't hurt for 3 weeks. See where you are then and change--or don't--accordingly.

This. Every body requires something different and if you want MFP to be accurate, you'd have to trial and error it to your body and results and find the best macro settings for you. Or, you can believe in the program which is a generalized nutrition program that has good proportions of macros and nutrients based on the containers. I've been following DFX for a month now and have no complaints. I don't feel like I'm lacking in energy, or that I need to tweak macros. And I'm long distance running on top of DFX programs (some days take more out of me than others so I substitute containers to meet my calorie needs, but for simplicity, yes it still works that way too.)