65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

Hiker · #1 June 2nd, 2009, 03:33 PM

Hi all,

Am in 8th day of induction am full of energy again after I upped veggies from seccond list, upped water and am taking complete vitamins and omega 3 and 6. Am very happy !!! Thanks for all suggestions..
Also found out that 65% of calories have to come from fat..NOT 65% of your diet consists of fat ..hahaha ( yes I still do not have the book yet).
But I have been seeing that my urine is neon yellow, always..even though I am peeing a lot every time. ( I mean I can read a chapter peeing)
Is it the vitamins? because I think I saw it before I started taking the viatmins, the first 5 days I was on induction ?

Thanks for reading !!

Hiker

**liv** · #2 June 2nd, 2009, 03:52 PM

Well glad you're figuring it out. Did you order the book? It an be bought fairly cheap.
Yes 65% of calories from fat. So since there are so much more calories in fat than in protein when it comes to grams we pretty much eat equal amounts of the two.

There will be nothing about this in the book though. Atkins just said to eat food till we are full and limit our carbs. Which is kind of cool too.

If you take riboflavin (a B vitamin) the urine will often be somewhat yellow as the excess is expelled that way. Nothing to worry about though.

chinadoll · #3 June 2nd, 2009, 04:10 PM

LOL the percentage thing was my laugh for the day but I can see how easy it might be to think about it that way.

jmacguff · #4 June 3rd, 2009, 02:28 PM

hello! haha, i also figured that out 3rd day into my induction...that's what we get for not reading the book right away!

(mine's on its way now though...)

question - where in fitday can i find this 65%??? i just started using fitday, and i know that i need to look at the pie chart, get my total carbs minus the fiber so i'll get my net carbs....but what about this 65% calories from fat? is it anywhere in the chart, or do i need to calculate manually?

thanks!

msanjelpie · #5 June 3rd, 2009, 02:34 PM

I think we are eating 65% fat... it's the same thing... 65% of our entire daily intake is fat...

**liv** · #6 June 3rd, 2009, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by msanjelpie

I think we are eating 65% fat... it's the same thing... 65% of our entire daily intake is fat...

Hmmm. Not sure what you are thinking here.
Today I ate (BTW I am on OWL) 95 gram fat, 30 gram of carbs and 72 gram of protein. Fitday thinks this is a percentage of 66/11/23
I did eat more carbs and protein in grams than fat but fat still made up 66% of the daily calorie intake.

Hiker · #7 June 3rd, 2009, 10:40 PM

Hi Liv,

I am confused, what is the percentage of calories comming from the 66/11/23 percentages ? Or are those the calories ?

Hiker

Hiker · #8 June 3rd, 2009, 10:41 PM

okay sorry from calories of course ... I can not read !!

**liv** · #9 June 3rd, 2009, 10:44 PM

Well I really write kind of crooked sometimes so don't worry about it.

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