Doe's MFP adjust you protein?

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sarahcoles1905
sarahcoles1905 Posts: 9 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
My question is in the title....

My daily goal is 90g

When I exercise it changes, does MFP adjust this automatically?

Should I eat them? (not MFP obviously! lol )

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  • fuzzylop72
    fuzzylop72 Posts: 651 Member
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    mfp's macro suggestions are based on a % of calories so it will change if you exercise (or if you exercise enough to be granted additional calories to eat, I should say).
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,072 Member
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    MFP is set up in a way that you are meant to eat back any additional calories burned through intentional exercise as exercise isn't factored into your calorie goal.

    As a result of your calorie intake increasing your macro grams have to increase proportionally.
  • sarahcoles1905
    sarahcoles1905 Posts: 9 Member
    edited March 2018
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    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    MFP is set up in a way that you are meant to eat back any additional calories burned through intentional exercise as exercise isn't factored into your calorie goal.

    As a result of your calorie intake increasing your macro grams have to increase proportionally.
    fuzzylop72 wrote: »
    mfp's macro suggestions are based on a % of calories so it will change if you exercise (or if you exercise enough to be granted additional calories to eat, I should say).



    Thank you, yes i was aware i should eat a proportion of them, i just couldn't work out why my protein for yesterday was saying more than i expected, i thought i had input something wrong, i did a lot of activity yesterday so that now explains it :)

  • ap1972
    ap1972 Posts: 214 Member
    edited March 2018
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    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    MFP is set up in a way that you are meant to eat back any additional calories burned through intentional exercise as exercise isn't factored into your calorie goal.

    As a result of your calorie intake increasing your macro grams have to increase proportionally.



  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,072 Member
    edited March 2018
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    ap1972 wrote: »
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    MFP is set up in a way that you are meant to eat back any additional calories burned through intentional exercise as exercise isn't factored into your calorie goal.

    As a result of your calorie intake increasing your macro grams have to increase proportionally.

    The thing is though that MFP only calculates your Macros based on your calorie goal before exercise, it doesn't increase your carbs, fats & protein proportionally so you are likely to go over their targets when eating back calories

    The protein target should be seen as a minimum really so not sure why that's a problem and it's still in the same ratio.
  • fuzzylop72
    fuzzylop72 Posts: 651 Member
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    ap1972 wrote: »
    The thing is though that MFP only calculates your Macros based on your calorie goal before exercise, it doesn't increase your carbs, fats & protein proportionally so you are likely to go over their targets when eating back calories

    It always has for me (unless I set a target in grams, which I think might only be in premium).

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