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Understanding daily totals

‎02-03-2015 19:30

‎02-03-2015 19:30

Hi there.  I am newer to this porgram and love how it is keeping me accountable.  However, I am ready to kick it up a notch and need to understand the daily food totals.  I can see how many calories I have eaten, fat %, sodium and others.  But what I DON'T know is what those number SHOULD look like in order for me to get the best results.  Can anyone shed some light on this for me?  

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‎02-03-2015 22:33

‎02-03-2015 22:33

@love2lilly  Everyone is different in what their goals are with weight loss. Some need to lose just a few pounds and others need to lose more or to pay attention to a certain area of their diet, such as sodium, cholesterol, carbs, etc.

 

Your health care professional can tell you about how many calories per day you should be consuming to lose weight. They can also tell you the breakdown of those calories.

 

Obviously, the less fat, sugar and sodium you have, the better. The more vegetables, complex carbs and fiber the more full you'll feel without all the added calories.

 

It's a good thing to want to kick it up a notch. You didn't say which Fitibt you had, but using it to increase your steps is a great beginning to any health change.

 

Welcome to the forums.

 

 

Stepping in the U.S.A. since September 2013. Android 14

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‎02-04-2015 15:45

‎02-04-2015 15:45

@love2lilly wrote:

Hi there.  I am newer to this porgram and love how it is keeping me accountable.  However, I am ready to kick it up a notch and need to understand the daily food totals.  I can see how many calories I have eaten, fat %, sodium and others.  But what I DON'T know is what those number SHOULD look like in order for me to get the best results.  Can anyone shed some light on this for me?  

There are some common recommendations to help retain muscle mass, or as much as you can if not doing resistance training, and help keep hormones balanced.

 

Protein grams should be 0.82 x bodyweight. That's all that is needed, more won't help weight loss, but it could help you feel fuller. Round it off to a nice even number to memorize.

Fat grams should be 0.35 x bodyweight. Round here too.

Carbs gets the rest of the calories.

 

Few days of that and you'll know where you need to eat to obtain it.

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