Sun, Nov-11-01, 13:32
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Plan: LC, GF
Stats: 241/190/140
BF:
Progress: 50%
Location: Eastern ON, Canada
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hi Lorena
I see that Dr. Atkins suggests eating 10 oz of cream cheese as the day's intake for Fat Fast. However, this is only true for some cream cheeses, mostly all-natural, unprocessed types. The regular cream cheese that we generally buy in grocery stores, for example Kraft Philadelphia brand, is TOO HIGH IN CARBS to be suitable. Natural, unprocessed cream cheese has 1 gram of carb per ounce, which is 2 Tbsp. The regular processed kind, such as Kraft, is 1 gram per 1/2 oz. or single Tbsp (yes, the label says less than 1 gram, which means it's 0.99 grams ).
If you ate 10 ounces of regular cream cheese, you'd also be eating almost 20 grams of carbs AND over 20 grams of protein. Dr. Atkins says that you can only have 15g protein, and 10g carbs. The rest must be 100 grams of pure fat. He says that if you choose to drop the fat intake to 80%, or 90 grams of fat, you must use PROTEIN, not carbs to make up the difference. You must still keep the day's calories at 1,000 in either case.
You would be ok if you could find natural, unprocessed cream cheese. And make sure to have exactly 10 ounces, or 20 Tbsp. No more, no less. Drink lots of water. And don't do for more than two days, then follow the fast with a strict Induction day, lots of protein, and no fake carbs .. just vegetables.
Doreen
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