I have no clue what the hell they are doing.Īll I know is that when I am trying to hit: 250p / 625c / 60f / 3940 calories, I sure as hell don’t want to have a perfect day and see 3700 staring back at me. On The Regimen A Better Macro Tracking App (free)īut, I did publish this for my Android friends while you guys patiently wait for your version! Instead of turning my brain to mush, I decided to just create a tracking app that solves these problems. Why did we need to memorize it anyway? In case we all become mathematicians then all lose our calculators at the exact same time? The quadratic was next, because you can believe it’s branded in my memory, taking up valuable real estate. One that involves the cosine of protein, the tangent of alcohol, and Pythagoras’ beautiful theorem applied directly to the nine essential amino acids. Why am I bashing my face into excel drumming up a third theory? So let’s do what we gotta do with the mathz.Īnd certainly not good enough for me on a calculation that should be automatic. Normal Human Language: Fiber has fewer calories than other carbs. So, we shall reduce fiber from total carbohydrates and calculate at 2 calories per gram (rather than 4). THEORY #2: ADJUST FOR PARTIAL ABSORPTION OF FIBERįiber is only partially digested by the human body.Īnd, while it is difficult to pinpoint an exact energy yield in calories per gram (this depends on many factors including fiber type), I suspect MFP might be adjusting for fiber in their calorie calculations. Normal Human Language: We are going to reduce the number of calories that we expect to burn through digestion. We will take the average TEF rate (27.5%, 10%, and 2.5%, respectively) and recalculate the calories in our 40 randomly selected foods. These MFP geniuses are getting ahead of themselves! They are accounting for TEF! This has to be it! The most calories are burned when we eat protein (20-35% of the calories we consume), second most when we eat carbohydrates (5-15%), and the fewest when we eat fats (0-5%).

We burn calories via digestion this is called the thermic effect of food. THEORY #1: MFP ADJUSTS FOR THERMIC EFFECT OF FOOD When I nail my macros, I want to see that calorie number on point.īut before we write MFP off as completely incompetent, let’s see if there is a method to the madness.

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