Hi. I've been doing Atkins/PP for a year and I've been stalled for months now and I was thinking about doing CALP.
My question is if you can have more protein and veggies than the high carb stuff. It says in the book that you can't have more high impact carbs than protein and low impact, but what about the other way around?
Also, do they limit how much fat you can eat, or is it like Atkins?

Hi Quinadal,

HUM.. good question. I am fairly new to CALP. I had been doing CAD for a long time and I never worried too much about the balancing part of it with CAD. My quess would be that you would probably be just fine if you wanted to eat more protein and CM veggies. I would not think that it would hurt that much to leave out the extra carbs. At least that is my opnion. Someone else might know more about this.

Wish I could have been more help. I will see if it says anything in the book about that. All I remember them saying in the book is, you can't go back and have seconds of carbs without having more protein and CM veggies too, but it didn't say anything about just protein and CM veggies that I can remember.

Will see if I can find out.

I don't see a problem with it either. The point of the veggie/protien/carb balance is to keep the impact of the carbs to a minimum. I'd think that the "heavier" the meal was with the protien and low-gi veggies, the better.

Thanks!

Hi Quinadal ,
I think that fat is limited at CM.This is the way that I do it.
Broccoli is not eaten at CM meals.
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http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=114493

I think if your RM was unbalanced, it's best if it's in the direction of LC veggies and maybe some protein. I often have much more in the way of LC veggies than anything else.

According to the CALP book, Broccoli can be an okay food for a CM or CS. It depends on if it causes problems for an individual. (an insulin kick, cravings, or reduced weight loss)

The CALP book doesn't specifically say CALP has to be LF. It says it can be, if you doctor so advises. It says that LF has to be combined with high fiber for it to benefit the system.