[litar]

Just started keeping up with foods I eat on fit day. I am doing okay calorie wise but.....I am worried about the amount of fat! Should I worry? I know that on the SB you really don't worry so much about fat but I wanted to be sure and keep my calories in check. I am thinking the 30 g a day thing and yesterday (first full day of fit day food log) I was over 30g of fat.

[CyndiM]

What percent of calories is that for you? Where is your fat coming from?

[tomandkara]

When I started logging my stuff in fitday I was freaked out by the percentage of fat that was making up my food, but I realized that I wasn't eating hardly any carbohydrates on Phase 1, so of course the percentage of fat was going to be higher because the percentage of carbs was so low.

[JulieJ08]

30g of fat is very low on any diet. 30g of fat is only greater than 30% of calories if you're only eating less than 900 calories a day!

[HoosierHeather]

30g of fat is pretty low! I think the mypyramid people say 65g is normal for a 2,000 calorie diet. You're not eating 1,000 calories right? Try not to worry. I think the intelligence behind SBD is that the "low fat, high carb" approach just does not work.

[litar]

My calories were around 1300-1400 (i need to double check that) and fat 40ish%.

[jenne1017]

I try to keep my fat around 40-55g a day but am not religious by any means about it!

[litar]

Ok I feel much better...I know the principals of SB but I think LF has been drilled in my head for too many years!

[JulieJ08]

Originally Posted by litar

My calories were around 1300-1400 (i need to double check that) and fat 40ish%.

That would make your fat about 57g.

[Wavesmom]

I just follow the menus in the book and don't worry about counting anything or how many grams I have of this or that.

Down 8 pounds in 2 weeks.