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Originally Posted by Slidesdownmountains  My goodness, this starts to get complicated! There's no limit of fat/protein but don't binge, and don't eat too much protein?? ;-P |
Yep. We need to learn portion control. Not knowing what normal portion sizes are is what made most of us fat in the first place. Just because butter is has 0 carbs per stick doesn't mean we can eat a whole stick of butter. Actually Jacqueline Eberstein, who was the Director of Medical Education at the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine when Dr. Atkins was alive, once told a story about a patient at the Center who was having a whole stick of butter sprinkled with cinnamon for her after-dinner dessert. She was obviously gaining weight...
So the point here, just because a food has few or even zero carbs, we can't stuff ourselves like Thanksgiving turkeys with it.
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My current sparks stats are around the 53% fat/19% carb/27% protein mark, which I don't think is bad. I am not hungry and I eat every 4-5 hours or so, plenty of veg, lean meats/fish and lots of water.
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Is this sparkpeople.com? I never used it, but there must be a bug in the way they compute percentages. Do they compute them automatically or do you have to compute them? Because if the menu you posted is what you had in the past 5 days, then you have max. 60 g of fat and about 1400 calories, which means 38.6% fat. To have 53% fat from 1400 calories you'd have to eat 82.4 g of fat and since you can't eat more than 15 g or so of fat per meal, that would mean 6 meals per day eaten 2-3 hours apart, not 4-5. It might be that you actually didn't eat 1400 calories and ate 50-60 g of fat, as you said you do in your previous post, but then to have 53% calories coming from fat, you'd need to eat only 850-1020 calories. So there's something wrong with the sparkpeople calculator if it computes the percentages for you. I think it's better if you always do the math yourself, because the numbers sparkpeople.com spills out are clearly off.
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Originally Posted by Slidesdownmountains Yes - she took about 1 weeks food diary, though she was generally aware I was following low-carb diet, and was the one who recommended I log it in Sparks/Fitday to see if I was lacking in a nutrient or something, and to give me a clearer idea of what was going in.... |
Whoa!
So, she asked you to enter your menus in sparkpeople.com or fitday.com to check your vitamins, your calories, fat and stuff??? Sheesh, I should have become a doctor! No blood test to see if you are deficient in anything? No nothing? She just told you to enter them in FitDay??? Because she should know that we all absorb vitamins and minerals differently, so just because FitDay shows you 100% for vitamin X it does not mean you are not deficient in that vitamin.
But I assume she was probably shocked by your fat intake and that's why she didn't care about vitamins... So did she tell you to decrease your carbohydrate intake too? Or to increase it? Or did she tell you anything? Or just "take the pills and run"?