Thread: Calorie Problem - What's Wrong With It?

Originally Posted by MSRedImp

This is what it looks like:

460 cal - 100g oats + 157g milk
212 cal - 1/2 can tuna
292 cal - 1 banana + 4 oranges
435 cal - 2 eggs + 2 bacon
148 cal - 186g cottage cheese
575 cal - 100g peanuts

2122 cal - 107g protein - 98g carb - 80g fat

Somehow you added your numbers wrong....Calories are made up of protein, carbs and fat in a 4,4,9 measure like you said...so that means:

107 x 4= 428
98 x 4= 392
80 x 9= 720

=1540 calories..........so either you're really only taking in 1540 cal, or you're taking in 2122 and your protein,carb,fat calculations are wrong.

Lots of ppl here use fitday.com to figure out their numbers...i'd try that and maybe see where you're off

Originally Posted by Tcage

Somehow you added your numbers wrong....Calories are made up of protein, carbs and fat in a 4,4,9 measure like you said...so that means:

107 x 4= 428
98 x 4= 392
80 x 9= 720

=1540 calories..........so either you're really only taking in 1540 cal, or you're taking in 2122 and your protein,carb,fat calculations are wrong.

Lots of ppl here use fitday.com to figure out their numbers...i'd try that and maybe see where you're off

Well you see this is where I get confused. Becuase I check my calories/grams by looking on the packet and for example tuna says:

Per 100g:

23.5g Protein
0.6g Fat

So this is how I calculated how much I am eating. But where does the other 75 grams go? It's confusing.

Food isn't 100% digestible. That's why we poop. Don't worry about the actual weight of the food, only concern yourself with the contents of that weight if you know what I mean.

MSRedImp, do you have a fitday account?

If not, start one, it's free.

Once you have it set up, bump this thread and I'll help you with a much easier setup.

Tuna is likely to contain a lot of water, other stuff contains fiber etc.



B.

Yeah, only worry about the macronutrients grams. So if something says 10gm of protein, it's 40 cal. Something says 10 gm fat, it's 90 calories. It's also important to look at SERVING SIZE. A can of tuna is 2.5 servings, so you are not eating 16gm of protein, but rather 40GM of protein, =160Cal.

I would recommend like everyone else, fitday. Make sure when you put your custom foods in, enter it as a serving size. I will usually put the name and then in quotes put in how many servings per container or specify by my serving size. Example:

Tuna (2.5 servings)

Protein power (1 Scoop)

Hope this helps.

Alski