Trouble with Macro nutrition targets

Gigageek

I’m new to this forum and pretty inexperienced with tracking nutrition.

I am having a really hard time reaching my suggested macro targets. Specially proteins.

chronometer has suggested:

Protein 25%

carb 40%

fat 35%

is 25% protein correct? It seems really high to me? It is way over the general recommendation of .8g/kg

I am 170 pounds. 6’ tall. Trying to roughly maintain weight or gain some muscle mass. I am pretty active. I cycle 3 times a week and workout with weights 2-3 times a week.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Susan_RD_101

@Gigageek

Assuming you are following a mixed diet, I'd set your protein needs around 1.2 - 1.4 g per kg of body weight given your current level of activity and your desire to gain muscle mass (~95-110 g).

Professionally, I'm not a huge fan of macronutrient counting and prefer to focus on intakes of individual nutrients and calories.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions!

Kind regards,

bracconiere

my two cents would be...macro 'ratios' are non-sense, look at the amino acid breakdown and make sure their all 150% plus...and fat, just make sure to get your omega-3's, and omega 6's....i do shoot for the upper limit on omega-3's, being that i get all mine from flax seeds, and ALA is poorly converted

Gigageek

Thanks for the reply @Susan_RD_101

as I mentioned earlier I am new to nutrition tracking. I really sorry if my questions are too basic. I really don’t know what I’m doing.

how should I set up Cronometer to reflect the values that you suggest? Set macronutrients targets to fixed values:

protein- 107g

Carbs -?

fat-?

Susan_RD_101

@Gigageek

Don't apologize ! It's better to ask the questions here then to try find answers through Google! I'd keep the ratios to fixed but click on the individual nutrient in your diary to set a custom target for protein.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Kind regards,