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Originally Posted by Nancy LC
I noticed the web site said stop when you're full.
Do you force yourself to eat what it tells you or do you stop when you're full?
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Nancy, I only eat when I'm hungry, and I always stop when I'm satisfied, which is usually well before 'full.' In fact, the last time I remember feeling 'full' (as I think you mean it) was when I ate LF, HC.
I had a light breakfast at 9:00 - 1 ounce proscuitto, half a cup of cantaloupe, a cup of coffee w/cream and a LC cookie. Was I full? Not at all. But I was satisfied. So satisfied, I didn't eat lunch until I felt hungry, looked up, and saw it was 3:30.
Lunch was three small breakfast sausages cooked in bacon fat, three jumbo egg yolks cooked in the same pan with butter added, a slice of PF very thin wheat bread topped with a full tbls of butter and a bit of LC jam. Coffee and cream and a piece of chocolate bacon bar after. I didn't feel 'full' but I felt very good. This meal is often breakfast when I wake up hungry - but if so, I'll typically eat a light lunch that looks like my breakfast today. In other words, it tends to all average out for me, since I only eat to genuine hunger.
It's nearly 8 and I'm just getting hungry again, so I'll probably eat my 1/3 stir-fry leftover recipe with half a pita topped with butter. And the peanut butter choco-chip brownie w/whipped cream. But my guess is that I'm just not going to get to the coconut oil/dark chocolate today.
My protein number will be right, but I'll be nowhere near the amount of fat I need to eat. So, knowing this in advance I guess I'll add an extra tablespoon of butter to that pita and maybe add in a bit more leftover coconut cream when I reheat the stir-fry. I won't even 'feel' those calories in terms of fullness, but they'll count toward the plan nevertheless.
Took the pooch for a walk after my last post, and thought about your menu. Couple of things come to mind:
-- Once you begin to swap protein for fat, your calories will rise automatically since it's 9 for 4 calories, gram per gram.
-- 3 oz of brie is 21g protein. Six slices of bacon is about 12g protein. That's roughly half of your daily allotment, not counting the protein in your salad, dressing and pine nuts. Or chili.
-- Don't know what was in your chili, nor how much you ate. My guess is, if you added it all up, about 50g. If you go back and plug it all in you might have reached 80-90g protein for the day.
Lets say 80. That's more protein than you should be eating now, and far more than you will be eating in two and three months from now. However, if you were to swap just 20 of those grams for fat, you would have eaten 100 more calories in one fell swoop. Add just a bit more fat and you'll easily reach 100-300 calories more per day than you're eating now. And that, combined with the reduced protein, is the very thing that will help you lose those last twenty pounds.
One last thought. One of the side-effects of chronically eating too few calories and not enough fat (and for some, ketosis from eating very few carbs) is decreased appetite. It's as if the body knows it's not going to get any more (like Oliver Twist
) and stops asking. The body then 'helps' us through this semi-starvation by stopping our hunger. That's how people survive the 500-calories-a-day Kimkin crazies.
I know, because I ate too few calories for years - and paid the price. But within a week of starting this, I noticed something. You could draw a graph line straight through my daily calories for the last month - and that line would go straight up. I've increased my calories every single day, with a few abberations here and there when I just wasn't hungry. I began with my usual 1400-1500 - rose to 1600, then 1700, and sometimes even 1900. Yet, oddly, I don't feel like I'm eating more. I don't feel any fuller, though I'm certainly as satisfied.
In fact, I'd argue that I'm not fuller at all. That's because my body is easily disposing of the fat, where it struggled to deal with the protein. So back to you. The more you eat this way, the more calories you will eat, yet you will 'feel' just as you did when you were eating less, though probably with more energy. Make sense?
Lisa