Macros vs nutrients

ket23k wrote: »

I can’t understand how i am supposed to eat 50% of carbs ( in the macros section) and it’s marking that I ate 52% BUT in my nutrients it’s marking as I still need to eat 46g of carbs.

Are you looking at the pie chart? That's just showing that what you've eaten is 50% carbs up to that specific point in time.

ket23k wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

ket23k wrote: »

I can’t understand how i am supposed to eat 50% of carbs ( in the macros section) and it’s marking that I ate 52% BUT in my nutrients it’s marking as I still need to eat 46g of carbs.

Are you looking at the pie chart? That's just showing that what you've eaten is 50% carbs up to that specific point in time.

Yes I am. So I should not be looking at the percentages? Because It is saying I should eat 50% of carbs, and I already ate 52% of my daily. So if I eat all the remaining carbs it will be like 70% ? . I am clearly new to this lol

This is a math issue.

Say you've eaten 1000 calories so far today. 52% of those are carbs.

Then you eat 1000 more by the end of the day. If none of those are carbs, then your total isn't 52% carbs anymore, it'll be closer to 25%. If you ate only carbs for that second half of the day, you'd be at 75% carbs. But if the second half is similar in make up to the first half, you'll stay close to 50%.

The percentage changes throughout the day because the *total* increases as you log more food. You aren't filling up an empty pie in the chart. The pie size changes based on how much you're logging.

ket23k wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

ket23k wrote: »

I can’t understand how i am supposed to eat 50% of carbs ( in the macros section) and it’s marking that I ate 52% BUT in my nutrients it’s marking as I still need to eat 46g of carbs.

Are you looking at the pie chart? That's just showing that what you've eaten is 50% carbs up to that specific point in time.

Yes I am. So I should not be looking at the percentages? Because It is saying I should eat 50% of carbs, and I already ate 52% of my daily. So if I eat all the remaining carbs it will be like 70% ? . I am clearly new to this lol

It is set up so that your target in grams will match the %...at the end of the day. The pie chart is just a snapshot in time. For example, if I just ate a chicken breast for breakfast and that's all I had to that point in the day and I looked at my pie chart is would say I've basically eaten 100% protein (not quite, but close) to that point in time. But that wouldn't be 100% of my daily target in grams...just that at that point in time, all I've consumed is protein.

I wouldn't bother with the graph at all until the end of the day when you're completely done eating and logging. Your grams of each macro-nutrient are your targets to achieve your desired % of total diet for the day.

I would also add that it is completely unnecessary to do a bunch of hand wringing over your macros. There is nothing magical about the default macros and there isn't any one universally optimal macro breakdown. For example, the optimal macros of a body builder are going to be quite different from the optimal macros of a marathon runner.

Calories are what matter for weight management and if you're new to this, that's where I would put 99.9% of my focus. Once you have that down you can start tweaking macros to where you feel they benefit you the most in regards to satiety and physical performance.