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????Target macro breakdown????

shankrocha Posts: 2 Joined: 2006/02/07	2006/02/08, 08:57 AM OK. i'm new to Freetrainers.com. I filled out the nutritional planner/tracker and these were in my results: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/sophielewis/macro.jpg would anyone care to interpret this for me? Am i doing something wrong? what does the pink/blue/green mean?
flyonthewall Posts: 1,823 Joined: 2005/01/18	2006/02/08, 02:03 PM OK, not having the key as a reference, I believe the blue is carbs, the pink is fat and the green is protien. So basically it is telling you that your diet currently consists of in mostly carbs alot of Fat and the least is protien. It is suggesting your target should be still mostly carbs, then protien and the least should be fat. The Fats pie chart is probably breaking down to monosaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fats. Without the key I can only guess what it's telling you. If you need more information on macronutrients; ie carbs, fats and protien, have a look in the nutrition forum. There is tons of info there. Good Luck and welcome to FT. -------------- Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
shankrocha Posts: 2 Joined: 2006/02/07	2006/02/08, 03:10 PM there was no key to go by... it's saying i should try to eat MORE carbs?
flyonthewall Posts: 1,823 Joined: 2005/01/18	2006/02/08, 04:17 PM The FT nutrition recommendations gives you a total breakdown of your target macronutrients. Ignore the pie charts and just look at the numbers. You'll get the recommended total calories per day which is broken down into grams of carbs/protien and Fats. Typically it will recommend something like a 50%/30%/20%-or close to this, split Carbs/Prot/Fats. Many have found the calories per day recommended a bit high, so you'll have to see what you're currently consuming and go from there. Take a look at the grocery list for healthy eating found in the nutrition forum..it's thumbtacked near the beginning of the list. Carbs should be good carbs(sweet potatoes, brown rice, veggies etc), protiens should be lean(chicken,fish, eggs etc) and fats should be healthy fats (olive oil, fish oil, nuts etc) One of the rough formulas used by many is: to loose wt, multiply your weight by 11 to get calories/day. For protien content, 1g-1.5g of protien/lb of body wt. So I weigh 155, to loose wt I take in 1705 calories per day and try and get at least 155g of protien. This formula assumes you're working out regularily. The bottom line is though, you need to know what your currently taking in and are you gaining, loosing or maintaining your current weight with that intake. Recording everything you eat for a week or 2 really helps. Do lot's of reading on this site and learn as much as you can about nutrition. There is tons of good info, and good people, on FT. If you have further questions, just ask, but please review the info that's already here as well. Hope this helps!