Macros not adding up to calorie goal
Morgaen73
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Ok so I set my new macros and according to the way my goals are set up, 95g carbs, 60g fat and 220g protein gives me 1800 cals
However, when I enter the food in my diary then 96g carbs, 59g fat and 220g protein gives me 1673 cals.
I dont understand it.
However, when I enter the food in my diary then 96g carbs, 59g fat and 220g protein gives me 1673 cals.
I dont understand it.
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can you open your diary?? my guess would be there is an incorrect calorie assignment0
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Calorie labels are allowed 10% wiggle room. That's why macros are more accurate.1
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Your tracking is only going to be as accurate as the data base entries you choose. I have had to verify a lot of them by googling the nutrition info, and even then there is a lot of variability in the information. Mine never add up exactly.0
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Sarah_Shapes_Up wrote: »Calorie labels are allowed 10% wiggle room. That's why macros are more accurate.
but he was saying that the MFP entries don't add up - not the labels - which is why I asked him to open his diary
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deannalfisher wrote: »Sarah_Shapes_Up wrote: »Calorie labels are allowed 10% wiggle room. That's why macros are more accurate.
but he was saying that the MFP entries don't add up - not the labels - which is why I asked him to open his diary
Sorry I was away from my pc. OK my diary is opened up. Look at Monday 27 March 2017.
I am starting recomp on Monday and adjusted my calories and macroes accordingly.
According to my goals 220g protein, 70g fat and 147g carbs add up to 2098 cals.
However, after entering my food for Monday I'm 3g carbs and 4g protein over but still 66 cals short.
Assuming the macro information is correct should I just leave it as it is since I'm not over on cals?
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deannalfisher wrote: »Sarah_Shapes_Up wrote: »Calorie labels are allowed 10% wiggle room. That's why macros are more accurate.
but he was saying that the MFP entries don't add up - not the labels - which is why I asked him to open his diary
Sorry I was away from my pc. OK my diary is opened up. Look at Monday 27 March 2017.
I am starting recomp on Monday and adjusted my calories and macroes accordingly.
According to my goals 220g protein, 70g fat and 147g carbs add up to 2098 cals.
However, after entering my food for Monday I'm 3g carbs and 4g protein over but still 66 cals short.
Assuming the macro information is correct should I just leave it as it is since I'm not over on cals?
Fiber.
You have 17g of fiber in your diary. Fiber is counted under the "carbs" label but is usually excluded from the calorie number, because our body doesn't absorb it. Your 17g of fiber adds up to 68 calories off of your carb numbers. 0 -
Susieq_1994 wrote: »deannalfisher wrote: »Sarah_Shapes_Up wrote: »Calorie labels are allowed 10% wiggle room. That's why macros are more accurate.
but he was saying that the MFP entries don't add up - not the labels - which is why I asked him to open his diary
Sorry I was away from my pc. OK my diary is opened up. Look at Monday 27 March 2017.
I am starting recomp on Monday and adjusted my calories and macroes accordingly.
According to my goals 220g protein, 70g fat and 147g carbs add up to 2098 cals.
However, after entering my food for Monday I'm 3g carbs and 4g protein over but still 66 cals short.
Assuming the macro information is correct should I just leave it as it is since I'm not over on cals?
Fiber. You have 17g of fiber in your diary. Fiber is counted under the "carbs" label but is usually excluded from the calorie number, because our body doesn't absorb it. Your 17g of fiber adds up to 68 calories off of your carb numbers.
oooooohhhhhh ok cool thank you
so bascially just leave it as it is then or add 17 grams of carbs?0 -
Rounding.
Macro gram values on nutrition labels (at least in the US) are rounded to the nearest 0.5 and calories are rounded as well. Besides that, the calories in the calorie section of nutritional info aren't calculated from the given macro values but are derived independently through testing.
Calories should be in the neighborhood of what you get when you calculate them from the macros but there will likely be some difference. If the calories are ever way off then double-check the MFP database entries that you are using.0 -
Susieq_1994 wrote: »deannalfisher wrote: »Sarah_Shapes_Up wrote: »Calorie labels are allowed 10% wiggle room. That's why macros are more accurate.
but he was saying that the MFP entries don't add up - not the labels - which is why I asked him to open his diary
Sorry I was away from my pc. OK my diary is opened up. Look at Monday 27 March 2017.
I am starting recomp on Monday and adjusted my calories and macroes accordingly.
According to my goals 220g protein, 70g fat and 147g carbs add up to 2098 cals.
However, after entering my food for Monday I'm 3g carbs and 4g protein over but still 66 cals short.
Assuming the macro information is correct should I just leave it as it is since I'm not over on cals?
Fiber. You have 17g of fiber in your diary. Fiber is counted under the "carbs" label but is usually excluded from the calorie number, because our body doesn't absorb it. Your 17g of fiber adds up to 68 calories off of your carb numbers.
oooooohhhhhh ok cool thank you
so bascially just leave it as it is then or add 17 grams of carbs?
I'd eat right up to my goal myself, but if you want to be really careful about your macros I'd leave it as it is. 60ish calories isn't hurting anyone.
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If the MFP Calories from summing the macros is within 10 Calories from what is listed, then the food item is most likely correct.
The FDA regulations allow manufacturers to round Total Calories to the nearest 5 Calories for Serving Sizes up to an including 50 Calories, and to 10 Calories for Serving Sizes above 50 Calories. This will account for some of the discrepancy.
Food items that contain dietary fiber can throw off the calculation of Total Calories, because the way the US FDA guidelines are written, manufacturers can either include or exclude the Calories from dietary fiber, a type of carbohydrate, and sugar alcohols.
The FDA regulations allow manufacturers to choose the method for including Calories from dietary fiber and sugar alcohols, or not.
I have noticed that most US manufacturers choose to include the Calories from dietary fiber in the Total Calories. However, for those food items that are mostly dietary fiber, such as canned or dry beans, they choose the alternate method.
For many of the high dietary fiber types of foods, the manufacturers tend to first subtract the grams of dietary fiber from the Total Carbohydrate grams, then use that number to calculate Total Calories. The issue is that the FDA regulations still force manufacturers to include the grams of dietary fiber in the Total Carbohydrates regardless of which Total Calorie summing method they use.
When I first looked at the Nutrition Facts on a package of dried beans, I could not figure out what has happening. I had to do some internet search to figure out how they came up with Total Calories per serving.
Reference:
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=1&SID=4bf49f997b04dcacdfbd637db9aa5839&ty=HTML&h=L&mc=true&n=pt21.2.101&r=PART#se21.2.101_191 -
Susieq_1994 wrote: »Susieq_1994 wrote: »deannalfisher wrote: »Sarah_Shapes_Up wrote: »Calorie labels are allowed 10% wiggle room. That's why macros are more accurate.
but he was saying that the MFP entries don't add up - not the labels - which is why I asked him to open his diary
Sorry I was away from my pc. OK my diary is opened up. Look at Monday 27 March 2017.
I am starting recomp on Monday and adjusted my calories and macroes accordingly.
According to my goals 220g protein, 70g fat and 147g carbs add up to 2098 cals.
However, after entering my food for Monday I'm 3g carbs and 4g protein over but still 66 cals short.
Assuming the macro information is correct should I just leave it as it is since I'm not over on cals?
Fiber. You have 17g of fiber in your diary. Fiber is counted under the "carbs" label but is usually excluded from the calorie number, because our body doesn't absorb it. Your 17g of fiber adds up to 68 calories off of your carb numbers.
oooooohhhhhh ok cool thank you
so bascially just leave it as it is then or add 17 grams of carbs?
I'd eat right up to my goal myself, but if you want to be really careful about your macros I'd leave it as it is. 60ish calories isn't hurting anyone.
Thank you very muchIf the MFP Calories from summing the macros is within 10 Calories from what is listed, then the food item is most likely correct.
The FDA regulations allow manufacturers to round Total Calories to the nearest 5 Calories for Serving Sizes up to an including 50 Calories, and to 10 Calories for Serving Sizes above 50 Calories. This will account for some of the discrepancy.
Food items that contain dietary fiber can throw off the calculation of Total Calories, because the way the US FDA guidelines are written, manufacturers can either include or exclude the Calories from dietary fiber, a type of carbohydrate, and sugar alcohols.
The FDA regulations allow manufacturers to choose the method for including Calories from dietary fiber and sugar alcohols, or not.
I have noticed that most US manufacturers choose to include the Calories from dietary fiber in the Total Calories. However, for those food items that are mostly dietary fiber, such as canned or dry beans, they choose the alternate method.
For many of the high dietary fiber types of foods, the manufacturers tend to first subtract the grams of dietary fiber from the Total Carbohydrate grams, then use that number to calculate Total Calories. The issue is that the FDA regulations still force manufacturers to include the grams of dietary fiber in the Total Carbohydrates regardless of which Total Calorie summing method they use.
When I first looked at the Nutrition Facts on a package of dried beans, I could not figure out what has happening. I had to do some internet search to figure out how they came up with Total Calories per serving.
Reference:
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=1&SID=4bf49f997b04dcacdfbd637db9aa5839&ty=HTML&h=L&mc=true&n=pt21.2.101&r=PART#se21.2.101_19
Thanks I'm not from the US though and I have no idea what the regulations are here.
Think I got my answer so thank you very much everyone.0
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