Perceptions.

I would say medium fat is an average healthy diet.
Low fat would be choosing diet/light options
and high fat would be deliberately choosing to eat fat products in ones diet
or for those not making a delberate/educated choice- eating lots of things that contained fats such as cakes. chips etc without worrying about it

One of the problems is the type of fat would be very important in a persons diet for instance I consider my self to eat a fairly high fat diet because I am under weight but my fat intake is what we may call natural fats like butter cheese cream coconut oil olive oil but I dont eat cakes or pies or margarine I dont know what percentage of fat I eat in my diet though
CAROL

my perception of my high fat diet is ignoring and enjoying fats, avoiding anything that says low or reduced fat, i actually cut raw fat from meat as i dont like it except bacon if its crispy, but full fat cream full fat yogurt butter all good along with all the other high fat foods i also ignore the bad press about saturated fat, this is completely unscientific i took this approach to fat after reading people on the forums views that sounded like they knew what they were talking about and so far so good i also believe that eating copius of fat and copius amounts of carbs is very very bad and thats what got me here in the first place, the only fat i try to avoid is trans fat

My perspective is that I eat high fat purely due to eating the natural sat fats that occur in eggs,nuts,meat,butter,olive oil ,cream,Avocados etc BUT I don't eat any low fat products at all-same as Carol I don't work out percentages either.

I don't worry about fats per se, I do trim off large lumps of fat from meat but I'm not obsessive about it. I do not remove the skin from chicken, i also eat duck and turkey. I do eat butter but not loads of it, i eat cheese, I eat a lot of oily fish, and fish in general. Olive oil features a lot in my diet, if i do fry anything it tends to be in a high temp tolerant sat fat like coconut oil or ghee. I do not eat processed foods or any kind of ready meal. I do have a weakness for traditional kentucky fried chicken and or battered fish, but not very often.

I do avoid transfats, margarines and spreads.


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I love nuts and seeds, oily fish, eggs, eat a reasonable amount of cheese, butter, olive oil, coconut and it's oil, PB by the spoonful.

Tend to remove the fat from, or eat leaner cuts of meat (except bacon and lamb chops).

Don't really count the fat, but will avoid ready meals and low fat versions like the plague as they tend to be high added sugars.

Overall I'd say I probably have a medium to high fat diet, medium to high protein, low to moderate carbs