Food Journals??

[Suga_Britchess]

I am in need of some food journal experts please. Someone who has some time they can spend going over my food journal #'s that dont seem to be adding up to me. Maybe you have yahoo mesenger where it will be easier for us to chat. My problem is my BuddySlim food journal, the numbers say my fats for today were at 16% but the Pie Chart says much higher. Honestly since I started paying attention and keeping a food journal my weight loss has stopped and my stress has increased. When I paid no attention to it I was happy and losing weight.

[Mirya]

Originally Posted by Suga_Britchess

I am in need of some food journal experts please. Someone who has some time they can spend going over my food journal #'s that dont seem to be adding up to me. Maybe you have yahoo mesenger where it will be easier for us to chat. My problem is my BuddySlim food journal, the numbers say my fats for today were at 16% but the Pie Chart says much higher. Honestly since I started paying attention and keeping a food journal my weight loss has stopped and my stress has increased. When I paid no attention to it I was happy and losing weight.

I went to that site you use and signed p and there is a huge difference in the numbers there from what ATKINS says is in certain things. I personally feel it better to figure up the totals by hand because of htere beign so much conflicting counts and info.

[Suga_Britchess]

You have to "Create a Custom Food" which allows you to enter your own nutritional values.....
but the issue I'm having is this:
The pie chart clearly looks to be about 65-70% fats, 25% proteins and 5% carbs, right?
But the Fat Total Percentage reads Fat 45%, Sat 14%, Poly 7%, and Mono 13%, which is way off from what I should be getting, so which should I be looking at to get the 65-30-5 distribution of fats-protein-carbs that is ideal?



I hope someone can shed some light because my head hurts from thinking on this so much.

[Elizellen]

Somehow those percentages are written out wrongly, as adding up the emboldened fat/protein/carbs numbers dont add up to 100%!! (45% + 4% + 17% = 66%)

However if you add all the fat percentages mentioned (Fat 45%, Sat 14%, Poly 7%, and Mono 13%) they come to 79% which when added to the carbs 4% and protein 17% do add up to 100%!!

[kate58]

Elizellen is right - I think what they must be doing is separating out the fat into saturated, poly and mono, but putting 'unidentified fat' into just Fat. Fitday does not do that, but it's the same thing in the end.

[Suga_Britchess]

So if I am understanding correctly I am getting too much fat, is that correct? I am not trying to play stupid here but I have fiddled with numbers so much that Im sure I've completely thrown my body off kilter....thanks for your help.

Im going to FitDay!

[Elizellen]

If those numbers are typical of your daily menus, then yes you are a bit high on fat compared to the usual suggested 65/30/5 split which was arrived at by analysis of induction menus by dukes university, but I have seen many people posting on various lowcarb boards that their bodies lose well on such a high fat input.

You might perhaps drop a little of any extra fat/oils you are using and see how that affects your percentages. There is a good sticky about how much or little fat is needed to alter ratios here. How much fat do I need to eat?

The suggested 30% of calories from protein stays constant ideally throughout our Atkins journeys, so it might be good to see if changing the fat amount slightly would increase your protein numbers.

[Suga_Britchess]

Thanks for your help, there's a new link in my siggy to my FitDay Journal that shows what I consume in a typical day.....
sometimes I have a hard time getting in enough carbs