Grams of Fat per Day
#293107 - 12/10/06 04:47 PM
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Toady
Reged: 04/06/06
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Loc: A small city, Northwestern Ontario, Canada
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I'm getting a little obsessive and paranoid about my fat intake. I don't count calories, only fat. And my mom is concerned because I'm still losing weight. I'm going to ask the GI when I see him tomorrow, but I thought I'd ask everyone here too.
Right now I try to limit my total fat to 50 grams per day, which isn't really hard to do considering I'm following Heather's diet, and all of my other foods are low fat, baked, fat free, etc.
Does anyone else calculate their grams of fat per day?
How many grams do you try to stay at?
Am I just neurotic or do my flare-ups occur less often when I stay below that 50 gram mark per day?
I'd love everyone's input.
Cassandra
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Cassandra
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i try and get as much fat as i can from the right sources and thatway it doesn't bother me.nuts and seeds i can do lots of, straight oil not so much, i stay away from all processed crap. basically if the fat is natually occurring i seem to tolerateit well and it has helped me gain weight, that and eating 6 times a day.
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I don't calculate grams of fat. I track my fat intake by percent of calories, and I do it per meal/snack, not per day. I try to keep each meal around 25% or less calories from fat. It seems to be working for me.
I also have to make sure that I'm not losing weight. I've started eating an extra snack each day, still keeping it 25% or less calories from fat.
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I've been obsessively using fitday to track my calories, fat, and protein each day -- since around Thanksgiving. It's kind of a pain to start with, but since I eat a lot of the same things day in and day out, it gets easier to use.
I haven't noticed a correlation between fat and how I feel (though the one meal I completely cheated at that was too high in fat did trigger some rumblings), but I have noticed that I have to pay attention to my protein intake. Without enough protein, I'm exhausted.
But if you're charting a relationship between your grams of fat and how your body feels, trust that. That's why you track things!
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