Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: How much fat is too much?

I am very, very sensitive to fats. I try to eat 30% of my calories from fat per meal. I cannot go over 1/3. I like to have the fat in each meal though because it helps with C and is healthy and makes you less hungry. I heard recently that 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat is a good ratio for weight loss.
I am pretty good at figuring out fat percentage without a calculator. Because you multiply the fat grams by 9 to get fat calories you can do it easily by multiplying by 10 and just taking a little off that. So if something is 300 calories and has 3 grams of fat it would be 30 calories from fat and that is only 10% but since that is rounding to ten instead of nine it is really less than 10%. Therefore the safe fat amount for 300 calories would be 10 grams of fat or so. This is why I will add margarine or nuts to my morning oatmeal and cook my egg whites with margarine etc.
I hope this makes sense!

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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!

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