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Okay... so you were probably overeating fat, since only the other day you entered it in Sparkpeople. You were also drinking too much diet coke. And you've been doing Atkins on and off since New Year. Then why, instead of changing these bad dietary habits, do you prefer to take Alli? Dr. Atkins wanted us to change our eating habits and learn to eat nutritious, healthy, minimally processed foods, not to binge on fat, take Alli and wash it down with diet coke. [quote]
This is not what I am doing - I do not want any kind of explosions - I have made a change to my diet whereby I am eating less fat and smaller portions, and have cut out diet coke. I never considered that I was bingeing on fat before: I ate 3 meals a day, but did enjoy lots of olive oil, fish, avocado, eggs, red meat, chicken (admittedly would eat my body-weight in cheese given half a chance) like everyone else here, but I wasn't counting fat (didn't think I needed to). To my shame, I didn't even realise that eggs contained fat!! Doh! Also, I never eat processed foods. Just too much of the above!
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So your diet has about 1400 calories, with 55-60 g of fat... out of each 1/4 are blocked by Alli... so you have 1250-1300 calories left. This is probably less by a few hundred calories than your BMR. You should know that eating low calories & low carb will mess up your thyroid hormone levels (look for e.g. E. Danforth and A. Burger, Annu. Rev. Nutr., 1989, 9:201-27 if you're interested in a study).
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To be honest I really am not keeping too much of an eye on calories, just fat, but I guess the two are reasonably hard to keep separate. I should probably eat more calorie wise, but as I have not calculated my BMR I have no idea
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Did you discuss your diet with your doctor? Does he agree with you taking Alli on a low carb, low fat, low calorie diet?
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Yes - she was the person who told me about Alli after my weight loss had dried up. My carb level at this point was up to around 70g a dat with exercise, so not excessively low. Of course it turns out to be a lot lower now, but I will check back in with her and we can go from there - there's not too much else I can say about that!
As I said before, I am not saying that this will be the key to my golden skinny future, but it was something I wanted to try out. If I don't get on with it, I am more than happy to go back to a week of induction and then try and keep my fat intake down a bit more but still on Atkins. If it does work, all the better, and I will have learnt a bit more about fat content of foods.