What are your daily carbs, fats, and protein percentages, and your fitness goals..? (lose, gain..)

I'm losing. I don't have a specific breakdown but I do try to hit a minimum of 60, preferably 90, grams of protein every day. Carbs and fat fall wherever they may but on average find myself at around C60%, P20%, F20%

Calories: ~1500
Carbs: ~ 5% or 18 g
Protein: ~ 20% or 71g
Fat: ~ 75% or 118 g

My goal is to lose close to 10 more pounds and keep my blood glucose stable. My goal is also to become more fit so even if my weight is mostly stable, I want to gain muscle and lose fat. My weight loss is almost done but gaining the fitness I want will take a long while.

I am a 5'8" female who weighs 149lbs. I would consider myself lightly active (exercise with P90X and coaching a few days a week) since I am largely sedentary beyond the work of keeping up with the house and kids.

Calories: 1300-1700 (TDEE is 1900 sedentary)
Carbs: 60% and often over
Protein/Fat the rest

I'm still looking to lose around 65-70lbs but after 35lbs I'll be in my "healthy" weight range

I'm comfortably within my healthy weight range at 125, but would like to decrease BF further, maybe get down to 118 or so and then try to add muscle. For the time being I'm okay maintaining why improving fitness and gradually recomping if that happens (seems to be somewhat based on the fit of clothes).

With the activity I do my maintenance is around 2200. If I try to lose I cut from that. (If sedentary it should be more like 1600.)

I like to keep protein at 100 g or over (.8 g x 120 = 96, so that seems plenty).

I don't care that much about fats vs. carbs, except for how I feel and how I like to eat (I do find eating more carbs help when I'm going lots of cardio, as I tend to do). I fall into a pattern of about 50% carbs, 30% fat, 20% protein when eating at maintenance and 40-30-30 when eating at a deficit which makes sense as I need a higher protein percentage to hit my minimum target when at a deficit, and my protein tends to be the least optional of the higher calorie foods I eat.

Carbs 40%, protein 30%, fat 30%. I'm working on losing, and as things become easier I'll drop down to carbs 25%, protein 40%, fat 35%. It always takes me a while to ditch the salty carb cravings.

Calories: 1200 to 1700. Depends on the day.
Protein: 100g+
Fat: 60g+
Carbs: Anything remaining

My ideal is to hit my protein and fat goals first and then worry about calories after I have met them in a day. I refuse to eat anything more than 1,700 calories. I can usually get away with 1,400 calories or so. Depends on the day.

1300 calories + I eat back half of exercise calories each day. Try for 40C, 30P, 30 fats- I have been losing slowly but steady on this plan

2200-2600 calories with 180-210 grams of protein on workout days and on the low end during sedentary days.

I'm all over the place. My protein goal should be closer to 110 but I often eat 150+, my fat goal is .35 per pound of body weight, rest in carbs. I'm on a bulk at the moment with a 250 cal surplus.

MSH2930 wrote: »

BOY do I wish we had like buttons!!
Thanks, all, for all your info and insight and opinions..I am not even sure what my macros are..?? LOL..:p
I am def not going to fret as much over the numbers..try and get close, but not beat myself up so much if I am too low or too high on one or the other..

Really you don't need to stress too much over macros. The main thing is to get enough protein to help minimize muscle loss if it doesn't stress you too much. Whatever helps make your diet easier to follow. I, for example, have managed to lose a lot of weight eating what is considered by many to be less than optimum protein and too many carb grams, but it's what works for me and makes dieting easier for me.

Fats 70%
Protein 20%
Carbs 10%