I guess this post realy belongs over here...

I put some what close matches to my last few days in to fitday and I see...

Day 1 = 64% fat, 18% carbs, 17% protien - 1185 cals
Day 2 = 61% fat, 12% carbs, 27% protien - 2260 cals
Day 3 = 63% fat, 14% carbs, 23% protien - 1720 cals

Only have the last 3 days in, and a few places I had to pick things "close" to the real thing, and make up alot fo new food items.. but it should be ballpark right I think. This is dramacitly dif then how I use to eat. Pre-Atkins day was...

(use splenda to sweeten everything that needs it)

Breakfast - espresso and tea
Lunch 2 waffles and syrup and tea
Snack small quatniy of chips, or a candy bar
Dinner 1 chicken pattie, roll, and fries, tea
Dessert Bryers low carb (diabetic nieghbor so I had lc stuff even then) ice cream

I just put that in to fit day and got...

pre-atkins = 20% fat, 68% carbs, 12% protien - 1105 cals

Comparing that how to how I eat now is almost sickening Its such a radical change I am not 100% sure I am on right track?

But how should my fat/carb/protien look?

I do:

Fat 66%
Carbs 8%
Protein 26%

Which is pretty close to what I try for, at 1700 calories a day.

One thing that amazes me is that it would be TOUGH for me to restrict myself on calories previously, when I would count all the calories and cut out fat...yet, Tuesday I had only 1218 calories, and 92 grams of it were fat!

And I wasn't hungry.

So, based on your numbers I may need increase my protein a bit. hmmm

I don't think you necessarily need to increase your protein. IMO, percentages are a bad way to compare maintenance diets. I don't know about Pam's activity level, but lazy, inactive, 135-lb Me is going to need a lot less protein than male, probably-more-active You. You should figure out a ball-park daily protein requirement based on your size and activity level, add in your carbs, and round out the rest with fat.

Heck, you said you were following Atkins for Life, so I'd say your percentages were darned good. Look how much you've dropped those carbs!

Personally, I seem to get along with a high fat percentage (and maybe I'm just running a deficit from 10 years of low fat eating.) But every body is different.

Well I am still reading the book, only get to read on breaks and stuff so will take a few days to get through it.

Yesterday acording to fitday I was 57/13/30, but I have not counted anything besides carbs. I am currently testing 60-65 carbs a day, as the 50ish level had me losing weight.

I guess Im still shell shocked a bit by eating that much fat! LOL Might have been better if I never looked.

How do you figure out a ball park protien need?

There are different ways of estimating it, but a rule of thumb is 1 g per lb of lean body mass - a little less if you're sedentary, more if you're very active. I don't have a lean body mass calculator bookmarked, but you should be able to find one easily using google.

Take them with a grain of salt, though... they're really just estimates.