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On April 28. So far I’ve done okay, losing about 2 lbs per week. My starting weight was 141.6. when I went to the doc mid-April. I think I’m at about 135 right now. 135 is my usual weight so I won’t get excited until I reach 130. Then really excited at 125 and I’ll throw a party at 120 and I’m not going any lower than that! I’ve been keeping track of my eating…does anyone know what ratio of carbs/fat/protien is ideal? I’ve been at 33-34% for each category but I worry that 33% fat is too much…any ideas? It’s mostly good fats. I’ve been eating too many walnuts!

May 13, 2008, 06:46AM PDT | 1 cheer


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~Charlotte~

I think it depends on what your goals are and stuff.

I started out at 141, I’m currently 135 and aiming for 130, and maybe 125 (although that seems quite far away!) So we sould quite similar!!

I use this thing called thedailyplate. Its free to use, but if you put in all your food for the day it tells you what percentage of your recommeded intake of cals, carbs, fat, protein etc you are on.

According to my profile i should have about 300g carbs, 60g Fat and 50g protein. I don’t know about the percentages though.

Given 70g is the recommended fat intake for an adult (I think) as long as you eat under that, I don’t think you need to focus too much on what percentages of each you are eating. (Although I could be completely wrong!)

According to an internet search i just did ‘Any product with 3g of fat per 100g is classified as low fat whilst a food which has 20g or more of fat per 100g is high in fat.’ But I guess that applies more to ‘bad’ fats than the stuff you get in Walnuts!

I would definitely recommend the daily plate website if you wanted to find out what sort of percentage of your recommended daily intake you are having though.

Sorry for the ridiculously long essay in response to your question!!

May 13, 2008, 08:34AM PDT | Respond to this


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