Hello,

About mid December last year I decided to switch from cutting to gaining muscle. I had been following Scott's PPL program since June and had great results and switched to Full Body Evolution for the winter, as I play hockey 1-2 times per week and 6 days a week at the gym was just not possible anymore. 

I used the Macro calculator on this website and decided to go with 2 grams of protein and go with less carbs and more fat than have been going with Protein: 269g, Carbs: 271g and Fat: 103g. This plan has been giving me fairly good results over the past month or so but I'm finding the protein goal is tough to hit if I don't have two protein shakes a day with 2-3 servings each.

I'm thinking of dropping it down to 1.5g of protein which would bring it down to 209 grams of protein per day. the calculator always goes low on fat, in this calculation, it's 77 and then 404 of carbs. Is there any benefit to going lower than 100g of fat? 

Just for reference: I'm 5'8", 170 lbs, 30 years old and I'd say my activity level is 3-5 days of activity.

Thanks for the help!

@Techiecal Remember the calculator is just a starting point. I think going a little lower (209g) on your protein is fine, but even though the calculator gives you 77g of fat and 404g of carbs, you can make slight adjustments to those.

Simply bring the fat back up and reduce the carbs while still aiming for 209g protein. So your macros might look like this...

Protein: 210g (840 Calories)

Carbs: 315g (1260 Calories)

Fat: 105g (945 Calories)

Total Calories = 3045

Ok. I will definitely give that a try, thanks!

Is there any benefit to having more protein and less carbs as opposed to less protein and more carbs?

@Techiecal My pleasure!

It depends on how your body deals with carbs. For some people, like myself, if I overload on carbs too much I start to hold more fat. That's why I like to go a little higher on protein. But some people can get away with 400g - 500g carbs without it affecting their fat levels too much.

So you can always try the 400g of carbs and then reduce it if you notice you're gaining a bit too much fat. But if you've already been working with 270g of carbs then an increase to 315g will still be good anyway, without loading up too much.

Hope that helps!