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Originally Posted by Georgiana  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. 
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.
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"? |
OK - I can take some critiquing, but it seems that you are here just to tear apart everything I say and to have the final word.
I have posted in good faith and all you've done is criticise, accuse me of lying, accuse my doctor of being a quack, and not give ONE word of support. As a moderator you need to be a little more diplomatic in your approach - whether you mean to or not, you come across as very harsh and authoritarian.
I am not going to answer the sarky comments in your last post as I am too angry.