65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

[Hiker]

Hi all,

Am in 8th day of induction am full of energy again after I upped veggies from seccond list, upped water and am taking complete vitamins and omega 3 and 6. Am very happy !!! Thanks for all suggestions..
Also found out that 65% of calories have to come from fat..NOT 65% of your diet consists of fat ..hahaha ( yes I still do not have the book yet).
But I have been seeing that my urine is neon yellow, always..even though I am peeing a lot every time. ( I mean I can read a chapter peeing)
Is it the vitamins? because I think I saw it before I started taking the viatmins, the first 5 days I was on induction ?

Thanks for reading !!

Hiker

[liv]

Re: 65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

Well glad you're figuring it out. Did you order the book? It an be bought fairly cheap.
Yes 65% of calories from fat. So since there are so much more calories in fat than in protein when it comes to grams we pretty much eat equal amounts of the two.

There will be nothing about this in the book though. Atkins just said to eat food till we are full and limit our carbs. Which is kind of cool too.

If you take riboflavin (a B vitamin) the urine will often be somewhat yellow as the excess is expelled that way. Nothing to worry about though.

[chinadoll]

Re: 65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

LOL the percentage thing was my laugh for the day but I can see how easy it might be to think about it that way.

[jmacguff]

Re: 65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

hello! haha, i also figured that out 3rd day into my induction...that's what we get for not reading the book right away! (mine's on its way now though...)

question - where in fitday can i find this 65%??? i just started using fitday, and i know that i need to look at the pie chart, get my total carbs minus the fiber so i'll get my net carbs....but what about this 65% calories from fat? is it anywhere in the chart, or do i need to calculate manually?

thanks!

[msanjelpie]

Re: 65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

I think we are eating 65% fat... it's the same thing... 65% of our entire daily intake is fat...

[liv]

Re: 65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

I think we are eating 65% fat... it's the same thing... 65% of our entire daily intake is fat...

Hmmm. Not sure what you are thinking here.
Today I ate (BTW I am on OWL) 95 gram fat, 30 gram of carbs and 72 gram of protein. Fitday thinks this is a percentage of 66/11/23
I did eat more carbs and protein in grams than fat but fat still made up 66% of the daily calorie intake.

[Hiker]

Re: 65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

Hi Liv,

I am confused, what is the percentage of calories comming from the 66/11/23 percentages ? Or are those the calories ?

Hiker

[Hiker]

Re: 65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

okay sorry from calories of course ... I can not read !!

[liv]

Re: 65% calories from fat..NOT 65% of diet is fat...

Well I really write kind of crooked sometimes so don't worry about it.