Wed, Sep-10-03, 15:00
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Plan: IF +LC
Stats: 287/165/165
BF:
Progress: 100%
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Quote:
Originally Posted by xcarbqueen
How do you increase your fat intake an not increase your calories to like a million?
I tried this today, adding more fat so I was up in the 70% range, it was really hard and I will be up to like 1,700 cal after dinner.
Can someone please explain this again for me? I'm having a hard time swallowing that number. lol
Thanks
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I don't see anything wrong with 1,700 calories if you're losing ! The more you can eat and lose the better you are in the end - it slows your metabolism less.
Adding fat will increase calories - but usually that's the point Eating too little wont increase the rate of your losses - eating less will, but only up to a point.
If you've been eating well under 1,700 for a while then I would advise increasing slowly - a few hundred a day.
The beauty behind the metabolic advantage is you can eat more and lose fat - because metabolising fatty acids as fuel takes energy. Fat grams, when fat is your primary fuel, have a caloric value closer to 5 than the traditional 9. If you eat 100g of fat your calorie number is closer to 500, not 900. So, in reality, you haven't exactly eaten the equivalent of 1,700 calories
Nat
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