Group: Specific Diets & Nutrition

Specific Diets & Nutrition
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 104, Messages: 22775

With so many diets and nutritional plans out there, you can get lost. Find out what works best for others and share your experiences!

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FT Nutrition Calc is possessed . . .

mackfactor
mackfactor
Posts: 766
Joined: 2002/10/17
United States
2003/02/07, 05:30 PM
Okay, after seeing tons of people complain about the FT nutrition recommendations, I decided I'd play around with the calculator a bit. Here's what I came up with:

The calculator only adjusts total calories up and down when you change either your goal or metabolism, but not when you adjust activity level.

The carb level is always constant, no matter what your goals (3.5x bodyweight for a fast metabolism, 2.5x body weight for a slow). Only fat and protein are adjusted for goals.

Every macronutrient value uses the same formula when metabolism and goals are the same.

Okay, once and for all, DO NOT use the calculations on this site, they are skewed horribly. FT recommended 20x my body weight for total calories to CUT FAT! That's my bulking diet!

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connolley
connolley
Posts: 38
Joined: 2003/02/05
United States
2003/02/09, 01:00 AM
Where can we find better info?

I wasn't going to get into this yet cause I'm sleepy, but I'm glad you got on me about the "can't absorb more than 20-30 g of protien per serving thing. After pondering it at work today, I came up with that at six 20-30 gram servings of protein per day, that's only 120-180 grams a day.