Is everybody following their macro nutrient goals

The only macro I consider for weight loss is protein. Weight loss is determined by calories in versus calories out. But my hunger is definitely driven by protein, or lack of. For me, it's very important. I'm sure it's not for some people. And some people's hunger is driven by fat or carbs. You'll need to figure out what affects you and how.

I've never heard of or personally observed any effect of micronutrients on weight. I watch sugar, sodium and fiber closely for other health reasons--high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Welcome to MFP and good luck on your journey to better health here.

Um, your thread title says macro goals and your post says micro goals. Is it both?

First, you don't have to hit any of those goals to lose weight, strictly speaking. Only calories directly affect fat gain/loss. Eat fewer calories than we burn, we'll lose body fat. (Lose too fast, we'll lose relatively more lean tissue in addition to fat, so avoid that!) We burn calories every day just being alive (heart beating, breathing, thinking) plus through daily life activity (job, home chores, etc.), and then exercise too, if we do some.

Macro and micro nutrients are the building blocks of nutrition. Nutrition is mostly about health, energy level, exercise performance, body composition (if trying to build/maintain muscle), and that sort of thing. Nutrition can affect weight loss indirectly, because sub-par nutrition can trigger fatigue (so we move less, burn fewer calories) or cravings (making it hard to stick with calorie goal). The direct effect is still via calories.

The good news is that we don't need to be exactly exact on nutrition values every single day. Pretty close, on average over a few days, will be fine. Further, as long as not starting when already diagnosed with some dire nutritional deficiency or diet-mediated health condition (like diabetes or kidney disease or alpha-gal or something), you can work on gradually improving your nutrition by gradually tweaking your routine eating habits. It can be easier to gradually evolve your eating in positive ways, rather than trying to do it all at once.

Once I hit my calorie goal consistently, and figured out how to stay reasonably full and happy most of the time while doing it, I lost weight. I worked on improving nutrition in other ways more gradually. Now (in year 7+ of maintenance), just following my long-established routine eating and activity habits tends to give me good nutrition and appropriate calories the majority of days. Since the majority of days cause the majority of results, that's good enough for reasonable long-term success. (It didn't take the whole 7+ years to find those habits; most of them came from the year of loss before maintenance.)

Give yourself some time and patience to work this all out. As long as you keep working at improvement, figuring out how to hit your calorie goal the overwhelming majority of the time, adjusting the calories based on your weight loss rate as needed, you'll succeed. Just keep going, it'll work.

Best wishes!

I utilize the macros as you can loose weight with a caloric deficit but still be unhealthy. My personal goal is to cut weight to look ripped. If I don’t somewhat follow the Macros I’ll actually loose muscle mass in the process. By trying to follow Macros and be at a caloric deficit I feel better and have more energy for the gym. I would say that some type of consistent exercise is required to really have results accelerated.