Thu, Jan-26-12, 19:40
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Senior Member
Posts: 178
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Plan: Paleo/Atkins
Stats: 206/179/130
BF:
Progress: 36%
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WereBear
So don't fear fat. Add it to every meal. When you are hungry, it means your body needs MORE FAT. I lost and I maintain at 80% fat. (If you aren't tracking, you don't know what you are doing, do you?) Your own percentages may vary, but the biggest mistake everyone makes, starting out low carb, is still listening to bad advice. Don't reach for the skinless chicken breast and the low-fat salad dressing. Don't fry without the right oil and don't run away from butter.
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Thank you so much for this tip, it really helped! I thought surely I was eating high fat, but when I tracked it, it was more like 55% I was tracking on a website that didn't use percentages, and I wasn't reading the numbers right. Yesterday I logged the food I wanted to eat, starting with the protein I planned to have, then adding in the veges and then I added fat to each meal until I hit a reasonable calorie level and got my percentage to 70%. I had a tonne of butter on my dinner broccoli! And this morning, I was down half a pound.
I've had a lot of trouble getting my head around this, but I think I get it now. Basically, if I work out what protein I want, and what veges I want, I can plan my meals based on that (those amounts won't change much day to day) and then add fat until I get the calories and fat to where I want them. So if I want to play with the percentages, or my calories, I do so with the fat. I might be being naive at this stage of the game, but that's got to help me with maintenance, right? Since the protein and carb amounts don't add up all that much calorie wise, but are volume wise the larger quantities of food, I can raise or lower calories without too much change in the quantities I eat, because it'll come down to an extra spoonful of butter or oil or not.
I couldn't begin to fathom explaining it to someone, but it sure is tasty.
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