Putting It All Together - Carb, Protein, and Fat Ratios


Macronutrient Ratios
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Hopefully you've noticed the optimal daily caloric requirement found in your account profile. If you haven't, you should visit your profile and get that number. It is an adjusted BMR that takes into account your level of activity and weight loss/muscle gain goals (if you specified them in your account profile).

With that number, this tool will help you determine the amount of protein, carbs, and fat necessary to achieve your goals. It outputs calories, grams, and grams/meal when you indicate how many meals a day you want to eat.

Following are three typical macronutrient ratios for different goals. You should start with one of them and then tweak your diet to find out works best for you. There is no one ratio that is going to work perfectly for everyone. Your body type is going to have a big say in what works best.

Total Calories cal Gain Muscle, Minimize Fat (50% Carbs, 35% Protein, 15% Fat)
Meals per Day meals
Protein % Fat Loss (40% Carbs, 40% Protein, 20% Fat)
Carbohydrate %
Fat % Endurance Athletes (60% Carbs, 15% Protein, 25% Fat)
  Cal Per Day Grams Per Day Grams Per Meal
Protein
Carbohydrate
Fat

Comments

a little mistake?

Hi Admin,
When I click 'Gain Muscle, Minimize Fat (50% carbs, 35% Protein, 15% Fat)' it comes up with 'Protein 50%, Carbohydrate 15%, Fat 35%'
^ Is that meant to be like that? please fix :)

Thanks

Thanks for pointing out the mistake. It's fixed. Cheers.

The mistake is still there,

The mistake is still there, hopefully anyone hasn't started eating 50% protein lol

Try again

Let's try that again - now it's fixed.

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