What do you eat to meet your daily goal?

you have your calories figured in for you so add your exercise calories that you will burn during exercise add them in early and divide that amount by how many meals you will eat for the day and spread that out evenly and if you need more or want more calories burn more calories than you added for the exercise and you have a surplus for say a treat

MFP is based on the USDA diet (which is based on the Pritikin Diet--low fat, high carb).

Watch the movie "Fat Head" on Hulu or Netflix, it explains how $$$ developed the USDA (Pritikin) diet and why it doesn't work. I'm ignoring MFP's Protein & carb recommendations of 15% protein, 55% carbs -- actually I'm more than ignoring it, I'm attempting to get most of my calories from fat & protein with very few from carbs Atkins/Paleo style. "Fat Head" is also what inspired me to loose some fat (I don't care about weight since muscle weighs more than fat--all I care about loosing is inches around my belly). I downloaded MFP to my phone to help me track intake, exercise, belly size, and body fat % so hopefully I can stick with it this time.

For nearly the last 30 years beef (protein & fat) consumption has been on the decline in the USA and yet we as a society are fatter than ever. The way I read that is: Less protein & fat makes you get fat. I figure the opposite must also be true; More protein & fat makes you get skinny.

Time will tell as I started my diet yesterday but I'm a huge believer in Einstein' definition of Insanity and also in the similar quote: "If you keep doing what you've been doing you'll keep getting what you've been getting." Maybe it's time to stop being insane by trying something other than the USDA/Pritikin diet.