If you try to enter an alcoholic beverage in MFP, your calories will usually be listed as carbohydrates or fats. While there may be some carbohydrates in your drink, most of the calories are coming from a different macro… Alcohol. It is it’s own macro. Do you think MFP could add alcohol as a macro? Thoughts?
I keep reading that in order to gain muscle mass, one needs to have a caloric surplus that includes appropriate quantities of protein (and of course muscle mass building exercises). My question focuses on the food piece of this equation – I want to know if body fat calories count toward the surplus. My hypothesis: Given…
How do you measure your performance in the gym? For me, it’s all about how hard did I work. At this point for me, “calories burned” is my primary indicator - I have others too. So, I am typically interested in my workout calorie total net (workout calories minus average awake calorie burn for that timeframe) and calorie…