Goal Totals Question

101192edm
101192edm Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I am perplexed. I have not consumed all of the carbs, fat and protein grams set in goals but my calorie count is over by 200 calories. How can this be possible?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,101 Member
    MFP doesn't calculate total calories based on the macros, it just adds up the calories of the individual foods.

    So:
    - you've chosen some incorrect database entries
    And/or
    - you've consumed alcohol (it contains calories, but alcohol isn't one of the three macros)

    Smaller deviations are also possible due to:
    - differing ways of counting carbs: in the US fiber is counted under carbs, but fiber has 0 or 2 calories per gram (insoluble or soluble), in the EU fiber doesn't count as carbs
    - rounding issues

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