Tue, Sep-23-03, 19:47
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Resident Loud Mouth
Posts: 8,495
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Plan: Retrying
Stats: 239.2/150.6/120
BF:
Progress: 74%
Location: Wyoming
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Definetly lower fat as you raise carbs. High fat + High carbs = fat retention. The 70% of calories from fat is for induction.
As you move through OWL you should keep your calories at a constant and your protien at a constant. You lower the fat as you raise your carbs. Since 1g of carb is 4 calories while 1g of fat is 9 calories, you don't end up cutting the fat as much as you might think.
Atkins states that the Zone's percentage of 40% carbs, 30% fat and 30% protien is close to Atkins maintanance. Of course this is different for everyone as your personal CCL will be different.
My calories have shot up lately, but that's mostly because I've been working on upping my protien. Today I had 30g of carbs and 1361 calories (I have been getting around 1400-1600 cals and am trying to cut back). My percentages ended up being 58% fat, 9% carbs, and 33% protien. My protien is high for weight lifting. You may want to have higher fat and slightly lower protien percentage.
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