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[Emmamc1]

Hi everyone, its 40 grams of fat per day too much, I've tried upping my fat because I wasn't having enough, can anyone tell me how much fat in grams I'm allowed per day, its the only way I understand ha, thankyou x

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[sammy1]

Hi 40g of fat is not enough. Correct % are 65 fat/ 30 protein/ 5 carbs. Assuming you are eating a minimum of 1500 calories, which you should be: fat should be approx 110gr, protein 100 gr and carbs 20 gr. If you use mfp in the 'daily summary' section you will see a circle, if you click on that it will give you % for the day. The reason the grams of fat and protein are close is because fat has 9calories per gr, and protein has 4calories per gr. Hope I haven't confused you further.......good luck

 

[Emmamc1]

That's brill thanks, I understand now, it does seem like a lot of fat though, x

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[southwestgirl]

Remember it is fat content from all sorts of things - meat, eggs, sausage, mayo, avocado, olives, cream, cheese, as well as olive oil and butter. Not to mention pork scratchings....

In MFP when you adjust your goals to the percentages above, then you can see how you are doing during the day as you put the meals in.