Analysis Wrong?

Hey all,

I just started New Rules of Lifting for Women, and I'm trying to gett he 40/30/30 daily breaksown of macronutrients that they reccommend. However, I was looking at my analysis and it seems to be incorrect.  For the entire day, I ate 1,133 grams.  111 were protein, 226 were carbs, and 61 were fat.  It said that this was 23.5% protein, 47.7% carbs, and 28.9% fat, This doesn't seem to add up to me. If I'm thinking about this wrong, can someone explain it to me?

Thanks!

It's a mistake a lot of us make (me ) at first.  The analysis refers to the percentage of calories from fat, protein and carbs, not the grams.  I'm pretty sure that's standard and that is what your book is referring to as well.

If you divide grams of each macronutrient by total grams consumed, it doesn't work out correctly.  I'm not sure the exact equations used by calorie counter, but each gram of fat is 9 calories, each gram of protein is 4 calories, and each gram of carbohydrate is 4 calories.  So if you are trying to calculate what percent of your diet for the day was fat, you multiply total grams of fat by nine to give you how many fat calories you ate.  Then you divide by total calories eaten to get your percent of fat consumed.  When I did this, my percetages came out very close, but off by about 1.5%.  Calorie counter may be using slightly different algorithms, but I think it is something like that.

Oooooh ok. I wasn't taking into account the different number of calories per gram of the different macronutrients.  Thanks!