All right, In this lesson, we're going to talk through how to spot imposter foods, which is foods that the calories are the macros don't add up the calories now we've learned about calories and macros, and how the equation and everything works. But what you need to be aware of, and this is something that might seem a little bit trivial, but it's actually pretty important because it could derail your entire tracking. If you're not, you know, aware and you're not then you're missing these things is there's some foods that you'll come across where the macronutrients don't add up properly to the amount of calories that are listed. And some of these are really obvious. So we'll walk through a couple of examples. So I found one, called bake bake mac and cheese.

So if you look at the nutrition facts, you'll see that it's 360 calories, 16 grams of fat, zero carbs and zero protein. Now, this is just clearly wrong because you're basically baked mac and cheese with zero carb is it? It's impossible. It's not a thing. And also expect there to be a little bit of protein in there from the cheese and whatnot. So any type of baked pasta dish with zero carbs is is totally, just blatantly wrong.

And now if you take the 16 grams of fat, times nine grams, or 16 times nine, which is 144 calories, so they're basically saying that this food is 144 calories, which is nothing close to the 360 that's listed. So if you see something like this, don't use it, it's clearly wrong. And this is a clear example of an imposter food. Now, some of some imposter foods aren't as as obvious as this one. So let's look at another example. I found one the other day called generic cheeseburger.

Let's see if I can find it. Here we go cheeseburger, homemade generic. So this one says it's 450 calories, 19 grams. Fat 23 carb 24 protein that seems pretty reasonable right? It doesn't seem outrageous like the last one. I mean, there's a good amount of protein in there which you'd expect and some fat and carbs.

But just to be sure, let's let's do the math and an add up the the macros real quick. So if we take 24 grams of protein times 496 calories, plus to the carbs now 23 times four, but you're at 188 calories now and now let's do the fat plus 19 times nine 359 calories. Okay, so that's pretty far off from the 450. If you out of the macros it's it's totaling a calorie amount that's about 20% lower than what's listed here. So, I mean, I don't know what's right. I don't know if the 350 Do you know is right or the 450 is right or neither.

But when when you see something like this where the macros are way far off, you probably don't want to use it because it's it's, it's an accurate one way or the other. So, these are just a couple of examples of things to look out for imposter foods as I like to call them. When you're dealing with these things in My Fitness Pal, you want to make sure that your macros are in the right ballpark, they don't have to add up exactly to the number of calories but they're if they're off by like 20%, or like worse, like we saw in the first example, then it's probably not an accurate entry and you want to avoid it. So just something to watch out for. And now that you're aware of how calories and macros work, you should be able to spot these foods