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"Ongoing Weight Loss" at Low Carb Diet Support: "when I go to fitday and put my food in, it's always more than 50% fat!!! Isn't something very wrong with that..??? Like for today it is: 1147 calories, 76 grams of fat, 18 grams ...."

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Old 10-08-2003, 03:33 AM
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when I go to fitday and put my food in, it's always more than 50% fat!!! Isn't something very wrong with that..??? Like for today it is:
1147 calories, 76 grams of fat, 18 grams carb and 98 grams protein.

Am I gonna lose with that???
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Old 10-08-2003, 04:00 AM
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50% and more is normal for this woe.
If you think about it, if you are at 40 grams of carbs a day that 160 calories. If you're eating 2000 calories a day that's 8%. That leaves 92%. If your protein is at 80 or let's be generous and say 100, then that's 400 calories or 20%. so now you're left with 72% calories from fat. What would you increase to get fat down below 50%? If you tried to achieve say 40% fat you would have to eat 52% protein.
which is 260 grams of protein. way more than you could eat probably. remember a fat gram has 9 calories and protein and carbs have 4. so fat adds up faster.
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Old 10-08-2003, 04:43 AM
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beansmom, why 18 grams of carb only. I thought you'd been low carbing for a while now, yes?



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bc,

my carb is 18 for today but it was considerably more yesterday!! I am not very diligent at putting completing my fitday...i will be more diligent. And I will add some more veggie or some cheese for today.

Thanks for your answers...what I needed to know.
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