Fatima067's Journal, 10 Nov 15

thats what I was told as well I eat to little but its like when i do eat more the weight goes up, or so the mind is telling me . but if you exercise and eat clean foods protein fat low carbs then the weight will come down 

Try leaving out carbs for a day and only eat veggies & protein according to your portions. I find that, that helps me and I also skip a dinner meal one or two nights a week.  

Most of my carbs come from veggies. I'll try and eat more protein. 

I checked your food intake for today, too much protein and toooooo little fat 

65-70% fat, 20-30% protein and 5-10% carbs use those percentages as a guideline for your calorie needs 

Oh then I am sure that is fine. I only have three portions of carbs a day of which my last carb is before 15h00, and the rest is veggies, proteins, milk, fats & 1 fruit. Yes I know as I have not done my dinner menu yet, will do that tonight when I get home. On the weigh-less eating plan that I am on is 3 carbs, 1 Fruit, 2 milk, 5 fats, 4-5 protein and 5 veggies. So this is how my daily menu is. I eat 2 veggies at lunch and because I do not have carbs for dinner I have the veggie, but my veggies only way 100g each so I stir fry them then it is not so much on the plate. I know it sounds a lot my I seem to manage the portions 

95g of fat is too little? 

Will have a look at it and follow up with my weigh less team leader to check it out for me 

95g of fat is too little in comparison to 150g of protein  

Thank you for all your advise as now days to lose weight all the help and advise given does help at the end of the day. Good luck to all on your weight loss journey, and let hold thumbs that by Christmas we all where we want to be 

I agree. The ratio's are all wrong. This doesn't necessarily mean her fat intake is not sufficient though. If she weighs 88kg she should be consuming 1 gram of protein for every kg of body weight, therefore no more than +- 80g of protein per day. The fat percentage appears fine. If she eats too much fat she will consume an excessive amount of calories which could delay weight loss. There have been recent reports that it really is not necessary to consume the high fat recommendations as prescribed a number of years ago for the LCHF lifestyle. To put it into perspective an avocado as healthy as it is, can be up to 500 calories! There are a number of online online keto calculators to assist with the calculation of correct carb, protein and fat macro's for age, height and activity levels. Type keto calculator into Google, and the search will yield the results needed. Fatima looking through your stats and logs you are doing extremely well. The body takes a while to adjust to a new lifestyle. Remember it took a while to put the weight on, and its going to take a while to take it off. Sufficient water, physical activity, good quantity of deep rest at night, avoiding stress, avoiding sugars (both real and artificial) and you will get where you need to be. Consistency is key. Keep it up! 

A great ratio to start with is 75:15:5 % for fat:protein:carbs, with protein at 1g per kg body weight and around 25-30g carbs (ketogains have a great calculator). Calories doesn't really matter on low carb as long as you don't go below 1500 , except if you are active then 2100 will be a good number. Once you are adapted you can tweek your numbers to suit you better. Good luck and enjoy! 

Thank you all for your input. As I have an under active thyroid I was put on this eating plan and it is the only one that has this far helped me. Been on it for 16 weeks and have lost to date 11.2kg. Going slow due to the thyroid. My doctor wanted me to go on the Banting eating Plan but I am not one for to much fatty foods, like eating fatty bacon and fats on the meat so he suggested I try the weigh-less Insulin resistant eating plan. Because I get a news letter daily from Manna Plus and in the one news letter they did say the best way to lose weight with under active thyroid is to treat it the same as Insulin resistant and when discussing this with my doctor he said that I should give it a try, and so far I am happy with my weight-loss on this plan. Good luck all and will keep reading up on your progress. 

In some people calories do matter, even if low carbing.