how do I????

[tish]

lift my fat content without raising the protein and carbs.... *sigh*... I am having a lot of trouble with this... are there some snacks I can make??

Anyone got some ideas... I seem to be slipping into too much protein.. and my levels have risen slightly...

I am tending to stick to the light tasting olive oils etc because they are less saturated..

Ok ... just slap me a little...

[IrishIrish]

Hi Tish,

Make sure that you are using full fat salad dressing or mix some chicken or tuna with mayonaise as a snack. Deviled eggs are a way to go. Add some oil or butter to veggies. Bake some chicken and leave the skin on instead of eating it skinless.

I know for me it was hard to transition after years of avoiding fats to incorporate them in my plan. When people here tell us to increase our fats, it always seems counter-intuitive.

The following is an excerpt from the Acceptable Food List for Induction:

Acceptable Fats and Oils
Many fats, especially certain oils, are essential to good nutrition. Olive oil is particularly valuable. All other vegetable oils are allowed, the best being canola, walnut, soybean, grapeseed, sesame, sunflower and safflower oils, especially if they are labeled "cold-pressed" or "expeller-pressed." Do not cook polyunsaturated oils, such as corn, soybean and sunflower oil, at high temperatures or allow to brown or smoke.

Butter is allowed. Margarine should be avoided, not because of its carbohydrate content, but because it is usually made of trans fats (hydrogenated oils), which are a serious health hazard. (Some nonhydrogenated margarines are available in health-food stores.)

You don't have to remove the skin and fat from meat or fowl. Salmon and other cold-water fish are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids.

Remember that trying to do a low-fat version of the Atkins Nutritional ApproachTM will interfere with fat burning and derail your weight loss.

[tish]

thanks Irish...I am trying... it is just that we don't have low/no carb mayo out here and the only one I can get that comes close to the lower carb range is is so 'eggy' that it makes me retch.

Salad dressings seem to all have the 5 to 6 carbs per serv...so I make my own from olive oil and garlic etc...but it gets a bit boring.

I guess I will just have to get past that and soldier on... pffft I know that the weight comming off is far sweeter than anything else... I just slowly drizzle off eating the fat... and next thing I know... I am down on the intake.

Everything else I am dilegent about... OK I will stop sooking now and pull myself up by the boot straps... I will never get anything done by sitting in the gutter and crying about it will I...

Thanks Irish..... oh and my lil girl loves your avatar.. she belly laughed for ages over it. :joy

[2big4mysize]

the trick is to substitute a higher fat food for the lower fat higher protein food.

instead of an egg have 1/2 a deviled egg and use a full tablespoon of mayo that changes your protein down your fat up and your cals up slightly

If you eat flax cereal for breakfast add butter or EVOO about a T to the meal before you cook it and it will be creamier in taste and higher fat.

Add avacado to your salad make a fatty dip for your veggie sticks or meats.


you can go for slightly smaller fattier cuts of meats. more fat less peotein same cals

What are you snacking on now?

DO you have a cholesterol problem too?

[tish]

my cholesterole is fine... and I don't snack... never have ..all of my life, never snacked.

I try to snack.. but feel so damn guilty and fat if I snack... plus I never remember to snack... I eat my 3 mains and that is it...sad isn't it.

[2big4mysize]

hey Tish How are you doing getting your fat up and your protein down?


I read your reply to Irish and you said yoi don't like the mayo. have you looked in out recipe section there should be 2 for homemade mayo ladyjean posted one I used and because of cholesterol reasons i cut the egg yolks in it. Now I have a soy free commercial source so I don't have to make my own.