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Old Fri, Dec-13-02, 19:14
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Default How can I NOT get too much protein?!

I'm worried I'm eating too much protein. I should be having about 75g a day and I eat about twice that! This is NOT hard to do...

I mean if I kept protein to the necessary (for my weight) 75 grams, that would only be 300 calories daily! 75x4cals per gm

Then keep my carbs to about 40g, my CCL, that would only be 160 more calories = only 460 calories for the whole day! 40x4cals per gm

Am I supposed to eat over 1000 calories 100g of fat every day to get my calories up? I want to eat more FOOD, not more fat!
My body can't handle all that fat believe me/no gallbladder - so I keep my fat reasonable and barely crack 1000cals daily -

I know atkins is not a calorie counting diet - but I have to limit fat - so I seem to overdose on protein because I am trying to limit my carbs. Is anyone understanding this - or in the same position?

Do people really just eat hundreds of protein gms a day with no ill effect because they want to keep both their fat reasonable and normal and their carbs LOW? Am I alone?

Ivillage suggests I have this in my diet (no way all those carbs!)
Daily Caloric Requirement 2018.65 cals/day Optimize calories
Daily Calcium Requirement 1000 mg Calcium sources
Daily Carbohydrate Requirement 302.80 g/day Healthy carbs
Daily Protein Requirement 40.50 g/day
Daily Iron Requirement 15.00 mgs/day

I'm not eating enough calories (because I'm cutting carbs and watching fat)...I'm NOT going to eat 300 gms of carbs a day no way! I'm exceeding my protein by 3x required here...I'm sure I get enough iron and I take a calcium supplement -


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