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Calorie-counting on an LC diet?

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Good evening, ladies & gents!
As a newbie, I have been following the LC diet (with medium fats) and counting my calories and carbs. I am sticking to around 50g carbs/day but I'm finding it a little more difficult to keep the calories down, and they're averaging out at about 1600-1700/day. I'm thinking that's not going to make weight loss very easy. Does anyone have any advice?
Also, can someone explain to me why it's necessary to have HF with LC, and how does that fit into weight loss?
Thanks!
 
How are you consuming a "medium" fat intake, 50g of carbs, but still eating a total of 1700 calories in a day?

That essentially means you have an extremely high protein intake. If that's the case, that could absolutely hinder your weight loss goals.

As far as your questions about high fat, low carb, and how that fits into weight loss....there are literally hundreds of threads about that topic and thousands more can be found through other websites. It's normal to have questions and there's nothing wrong with that, but you'll much faster and more thorough answers to your questions if you do a basic Google search.
 
I also can't understand how you are eating 1700 calories a day on 50g carbs and medium fat. Either your protein amount is high, or you are miscalculating your carbs, or your fat consumption is higher than medium. How are you measuring all these things, and what are you using to calculate them?
 
debrasue said:
Good evening, ladies & gents!
As a newbie, I have been following the LC diet (with medium fats) and counting my calories and carbs. I am sticking to around 50g carbs/day but I'm finding it a little more difficult to keep the calories down, and they're averaging out at about 1600-1700/day. I'm thinking that's not going to make weight loss very easy. Does anyone have any advice?
Also, can someone explain to me why it's necessary to have HF with LC, and how does that fit into weight loss?
Thanks!
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When I started to reduce my carbs, I didn't increase my fat intake, aside from substituting low fat products, like yoghurt, for full fat variants, until I was pretty trim, and only then because I needed to stop losing weight. I was fine, and didn't feel unduly hungry or anything else for that matter.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I also can't understand how you are eating 1700 calories a day on 50g carbs and medium fat. Either your protein amount is high, or you are miscalculating your carbs, or your fat consumption is higher than medium. How are you measuring all these things, and what are you using to calculate them?
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Perhaps my protein intake is too high - it seems to be averaging between 600-1000 calories per day. I'll have a look at reducing that. Thanks!
 
AndBreathe said:
When I started to reduce my carbs, I didn't increase my fat intake, aside from substituting low fat products, like yoghurt, for full fat variants, until I was pretty trim, and only then because I needed to stop losing weight. I was fine, and didn't feel unduly hungry or anything else for that matter.
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I'll give that a try - thanks! :-)
 
britishpub said:
@debrasue it is not necessary to eat a lot of fat.

Start with your Carbs, if you want that to be 50g then great, add your protein target and once you have that you make up whatever deficit you have in fats.

If you want to change the calorie amount you consume leave the carb and protein the same and either reduce or increase the fats to suit your goal.
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Excellent - thanks for this advice, it helps a lot!
 
TorqPenderloin said:
How are you consuming a "medium" fat intake, 50g of carbs, but still eating a total of 1700 calories in a day?

That essentially means you have an extremely high protein intake. If that's the case, that could absolutely hinder your weight loss goals.

As far as your questions about high fat, low carb, and how that fits into weight loss....there are literally hundreds of threads about that topic and thousands more can be found through other websites. It's normal to have questions and there's nothing wrong with that, but you'll much faster and more thorough answers to your questions if you do a basic Google search.
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Yes, I think my protein levels are too high and I'll look at reducing that now. Thanks for the advice about Google searching, too, although I have been doing that and I feel I'm going into information overload! I'll keep looking, though.
 
debrasue said:
Yes, I think my protein levels are too high and I'll look at reducing that now. Thanks for the advice about Google searching, too, although I have been doing that and I feel I'm going into information overload! I'll keep looking, though.
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It is a lot of information to process, but it doesn't have to be if you don't over complicate things. My general rule of thumb is to set a plan, try it out for long enough to give it a chance, and make modifications when it doesn't.

To compare some of your numbers, I eat about 50g of carbs a day, about 250g-300g of protein, and about 150g of fat.....honestly, that's WAY more protein than I need and I'm a 210 lbs 27 year old male with bodybuilding as one of my main fitness goals.

1g-1.5g of protein for every kg of body weight should be more than enough protein for most people (including me). Anything more than that can actually start to negatively impact your blood sugar levels.
 
Have you tried one of the low carb nutritional calculators to help you work out what your relative proportions of carbs, protein and fat should be? They might help, and you can adjust them to suit your preferences/requirements.

Robbity
 
TorqPenderloin said:
It is a lot of information to process, but it doesn't have to be if you don't over complicate things. My general rule of thumb is to set a plan, try it out for long enough to give it a chance, and make modifications when it doesn't.

To compare some of your numbers, I eat about 50g of carbs a day, about 250g-300g of protein, and about 150g of fat.....honestly, that's WAY more protein than I need and I'm a 210 lbs 27 year old male with bodybuilding as one of my main fitness goals.

1g-1.5g of protein for every kg of body weight should be more than enough protein for most people (including me). Anything more than that can actually start to negatively impact your blood sugar levels.
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Ahhh, yes - that puts it into perspective! I am clearly seriously overdoing the protein. I'll factor that in from now on.
On the plus side, though, I was pretty pleased with my BS levels yesterday (between 7.1 and 4.3 throughout the day) and so far today it's been 5.7 overnight fasting and 6.0 two hours after breakfast. I won't hang the bunting out just yet, but I'm feeling more positive than I was a week ago.
Thanks for your good advice! :-)
 
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