The aim to load up protein, certain vitamins and dietary requirements in the morning.

Issue is the fat is already going to 80% rda by the time I am done.

Is this necessarily a bad thing? And is it in line with keto type diets?

from my understanding cholesterol baddies are negated by cholesterol goodies

For example, whole almonds may leave ~10-30% of calories "trapped" within the food matrix (later being fermented by our microbiota or lost in feces), while finely grinding almonds may enable almost all of its original calories to be absorbed.

I'm wondering if Cronometer provides a way to account for this. Claude says:

The Atwater system assumes a roughly constant digestibility across foods, but it doesn't account for food matrix effects. Whole nuts are the clearest counter-example — bomb calorimetry says the energy is there, and the macronutrient composition predicts ~170 kcal/oz for almonds, but human fecal-balance studies show ~20% of that energy is never actually absorbed because intracellular lipid stays trapped behind intact cell walls and ends up in the colon. So the Atwater factors systematically overestimate metabolisable energy for whole nuts, and increasingly so as the food becomes less processed.

It mentions the Beltsville studies as the "gold-standard human fecal-balance measurements", but still limited:

The USDA Beltsville group has been extending this work, but coverage is still patchy outside nuts.

This is obviously hard to account for, but I wonder if we could have, e.g., a discount factor to be applied to whole foods vs ground foods. Probably the place to start would be nuts, as previously mentioned.

I personally think you guys are using the RDA in pounds and not in kilograms which is a huge mistake. The RDA is 0.8g per KG of weight, not pound. So if I'm 65kg, my RDA default should be 52g or protein per day and not 114g. I also noticed a LOT of macro calculators online do the same mistake and give people huge protein intake recommendations, like 100's of grams per day even for people that what to maintain weight. Just wanted to point that out, the standard/recommended protein intake is 0.8g per KG, not pound.

Would be great to have an automatic default that makes it easier to have average macros and not have to calculate them on our own and filled them in as fixed values.

Any help here would be very much appreciated.

Today for example is a 2k calorie difference

Cronometer is 2k higher than fitbit

I have my activity set to zero in cronometer and its just basing my expenditure off of my fitbit account.

I do feel like cronometer is accurate but I wanted to bring it up

Look here, Cronometer. Many people are trying to save their lives. Simple. Calories in and percentage of fat-carb-protein. Calories out/expended. I like the bmr part but what the heck is this next step??

https://support.cronometer.com/hc/en-us/articles/31975503009044-Energy-Target#:~:text=Expenditure Above Baseline:-,Baseline Activity = 279 kcal,the same as your baseline.

But later when I log lunch, I’ve got more. So I guess it goes up with activity? I use a watch to track activity, but it’s not like I exercised between breakfast and lunch. Just work, which is not sedentary but it’s not a work out either. It’s been kind of frustrating, but livable as I’ve said the primary purpose of me using this app was to make sure I’m getting what I need from the food I eat. And normally I work out in the afternoon, so I’ll be a tiny bit over at the end of the day, but by like 100 or less, which feels right for the food I eat.But yesterday, I didn’t work out and this has been such a weird, yet not super inconvenient mystery, that I was legitimately curious what the number would end up being on just a standard day without any additional exercise.872 is the limit, counting an additional 92 calories of expenditure above baseline and 97 TEF. Anything else and it says over, with an exclamation mark. So what’s the energy target if it’s not your daily calories, because there’s no way an app that’s all about measuring nutrient needs thinks that’s healthy much less a “goal”.

So did I set something up wrong or does that number mean something else entirely.

and as a note to the app developers, for the love of litigation, whatever mistake I made or assumption I made, please make it less makable before some 16 year old teenage girl with body image issues gets a hold of this app and thinks she’s legitimately being told to eat… what is that, 683 calories a day?!

I would like to see a feature to carry over calories to the next day. For example, if I estimate that my activity for the next day will burn 500 calories, I'd like to eat those extra 500 calories the day before. Not after. The math is easy enough, but I'd like to see the visual.

Any advice would be appreciated. Cedar

For most people eating between 3 and 5 pounds of food a day (usually depends on body size) is fully satiating. And the calorie needs of the average person run between 1500 and 2500 calories (again usually depending on body size) to maintain weight. Simple math says that a diet with an average calorie density of around 500 calories per pound will simultaneously hit both total calories and total food weight values. To lose weight instead of eating less of the same mix of foods that average to 500 calories per pounds, the necessary calorie deficit is achieved by shifting the amounts of foods such that more of the very low calorie foods like vegetables, leafy greens and most fruit and less of the high calorie density foods like bread and any added oils or sugars so that the calorie density average out to around 400-450 calories per pound that yields a 150-500 calorie deficit.

My question is has anybody tried focusing on calorie density as a way to lose weight, and did you have success? And a second question did you find a way to use Cronometer to help you determine the overall calorie density of a given meal and for a given day?

I know that all the necessary information (weight of food consumed and calories in that food) is readily available in cronometer, but I have not found a way to get Cronometer to do the calorie density calculation for me. If need be, I'll just transfer the necessary information to Excel and do the single division step there, but I would rather not have to do this manual step. I would much rather have it done by Cronometer and then be able to generate a report and/or plot of calorie density of my diet over time.

Thanks!

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CdwWliv7Hg&list=PLwk4vrnNC9lm4qgHoyOqT7RnC7BfugQTX&index=14&t=14s
(2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182946/