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Originally Posted by phall8180
Thank you, my coach still has not got back to me, so I appreciate all this info. Question though, how many IP foods will I be using, just the 4?
It would just be 3 unrestricted, 1/2 a restricted, your normal dinner and if you need it the other egg (egg whites).
Basically:
breakfast: IP packet avg 100 cal 4carbs
am snack: egg or egg whites (egg whites would give the best protein, lowest calories and least fat) if egg white approx 50 cal
Lunch: IP packet avg 100 cal 4 carb
afternoon snack: 1/2 a restricted avg of 1/2 70 cal 6.5 carb
Dinner: normal IP meal real protein
Snack: IP packet avg 100 cal 4 carb
If you can try to stay with the blueberry pom, orange drink, pina colada, pink lemonade,raspberry jelly, omelet, pudding - banana, butterscotch, lemon, strawberry, or vanilla , RTD- vanilla shake, or Soups-chicken, mushroom, leek. These will have the lower combination of carbs while giving you greater protein and affording you the 1/2 restricted.
For the restricted: choose things lower in carb and easy to split. Think the chocolate soy puffs, peanut butter soy puffs, apple cinnamon soy puffs, sour cream and onion puffs, you could do 1/2 a bar occasionally but, it will give you about 2 extra carbs a day. Given you that your best choice is the lemon poppy bar as it is the only one which will also give you a gram of fiber per 1/2 serving.
Using those combinations you will still be about 18 to 19 carbs before veggies and about 450 calories or so before dinner, veggies, and olive oil.
This is total and not net carbs so, you could easily add more carbs in your veggies without worrying to much but, stick to the ones that are higher in fiber and preferably, few occasional veggies.
You will be eating 6 times a day, if you feel you need it.
This will give you more protein through out the day and a lower balance of carbs. Once you find you are not as light headed, drop the 1/2 restricted or the extra real protein.
If you find you still need it you can add one, the other, both or another unrestricted back. You are still staying near the equivalent of having added a fourth packet a day but making it more manageable, more interesting, spreading it through the day and, hopefully, preventing that light-headed feelings.
This probably seems like a lot of work. It is easier to just say add one packet and that would work if you didn't want the afternoon snack. I would just say add one packet (any kind, fast loss with the unrestricted) and have it at night and add no other real protein.
Or add a real protein at some point in the day when you feel you are spacey, light headed or, hungry. And keep your IP exactly as written on the protocol.
Your choice but, you only really need 3 IP packets a day.