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Originally Posted by hapkat430
Here is todays goods!
Breakfast small bowl cereal ( cheerios )
1/2 banana
Lunch
Pita sandwich with tuna fish tomatoes and alfalfa sprouts
Apple
Snack
Apple
Dinner ( eating now )
Bowl salad
ww pasta with low fat sauce
Will have a snack at bedtime ( I am diabetic so I have to do that at bedtime to keep blood sugar from dropping too low)
That looks like what you'd expect a diet menu to look like, doesn't it? So please, hapkat, don't worry at all over having chosen it, because it
seems like it makes perfect sense.
Only problem is, pre-bedtime-snack, and estimating a few things, it seems to come to around 1000 calories! 16/64/21 fats/carbs/protein percentages, and that was assuming tuna salad instead of plain tuna.
Go ahead and eat more, girlfriend! I'd honestly say don't worry too much about going low-fat at the moment—we need those fats to keep us satiated and frankly, it's really hard to eat ~2k calories of healthy food without having some fat in there. Do your own calcs, but we aren't far off in size and I'm pretty sedentary, and losing on 2k to 2500 a day. Of course, everyone is different, standard disclaimer etc.
www.fitday.com is a handy site for guesstimating your caloric needs and tracking things, if you weren't there already.
I admire your willpower in sticking to your low-cal, low-fat regimen for 4 days—once you tweak your plan to keep you satisfied and your body happy (your body going, oh, look, no famine here, guess I'll burn some of this fat store rather than slow everything down to preserve)—it ought to feel a lot more comfy!