How does macro add up?

[Ginge McFantaPants]

Originally Posted by Steve McDonald

Dry beans, fresh-cooked, would be more nutritious, especially for protein, than eating pre-cooked ones from cans. The amino acids will degrade after cooking and sitting in a can for months (or years).

I prefer dried beans too, but I keep canned beans on hand for Mr.Mathlete and the youngest sum. They prefer canned.

[Stymie13]

Originally Posted by Ms.Mathlete

I prefer dried beans too, but I keep canned beans on hand for Mr.Mathlete and the youngest sum. They prefer canned.

That's because they don't want to wait 3 hours! Lol (Goya are actually really good).

[mrpeatie]

You should check into using a nutritionist. They will break the macro nutrients into what that computes to in daily servings/actual food items. Beans are tricky because they can count as cards or protein- but counting them as a protein is usually by ounces of volume and not a pure gram per gram serving like meat would be. IIRC an ounce of protein provides 7(+/-) grams.


Also half the food in the world contains carbs whether or not we think of the food as a carbohydrate. Fruits are high in carbs and even dairy has carbs.

[Sonnenwende]

260lb? Unless you are approaching 7ft, probably better to focus on cutting body fat.