Am I doing the LE diet correctly? And a few other Questions

I need to know GRAMS of protein and fat, I can't go off percentages as I don't have the brainpower to do math right now LOL

3 meals a day is FINE and is equally acceptible to 2. I had 3, just pushed back breakfast till 11 or 12 and then had the 3 meals.

SERIOUSLY - no more than 2 servings of tuna a week. I don't care what kind it is, this is a very big and important deal. Honestly,if you've been having a lot of it up till now I would have you drop it completely particulrly as you're losing weight, it (mercury) may have been stored in your fat and could be released now.

I only use cinnamon in limited instances and I feel like we haven't had the experience to really know if it's safe so I am inclined to have anyone who doesn't need it, to leave it out. This is especially the case with the aspirin.

There are two kinds of strokes. One is caused by clots and aspirin can help prevent those but the risk of clots for a healthy young woman is not high at all. The other kind is caused by bleeding in the brain and aspirin increases the risk of this greatly, especially in young healthy women. A 60 year old man is not a 30 year old woman and what is good for one is not necessarily good for the other. And new data showed that aspirin actually increases risks of heart attacks in 1/4 of women who take it (some genetic thing). It is NOT WORTH IT. Cinnamon will also thin your blood so the two togehter is too much of a good thing.

As long as you understand that dairy and eggs are allowed (some people think they ahve to avoid them when they don't.) Diet is about LIMITS, not magic foods.

It's not you that you have to worry about with the mercury - you know that, right??? One of the most dangerous things for pregnancy and it builds up in your system.

100-250 g carbohydrates
10-30 g fat
20-50 G protein this is an average range based on the 1 week I've been dieting so far and it's really been sort of across the board as far as calorie intake because I'm still getting used to it.
Thanks for the advice.
I understand the issue with Mercury. Sorry I have an awful sense of humor I don't mean for confusion or to sound like a moron. Just to clarify, in my op I did say I'm only eating tuna occasionally and that I was looking for alternative protein sources because I would like to eliminate it completely while ttc sorry if I was unclear. I was joking about mercury poisoning. For perspective I started dieting on the 6th and I had tuna in the 9th and 14th.

Fat needs to be 30-60 (25 is bare minimum)

Protein needs to be 40-50. 20 is not enough

I only have a snapshot of what people mention in a post. Sometimes people may not be giving the whole truth so I "warn first and find details later". Most people are never doing anything harmful but then again sometimes they are, and additionally for everyone who posts 10 more are reading the post so sometimes I have to take the opportunity as it arises to mention something that could possibly be harmful - not necessarily for you but for the other person out there actually eating tuna fish 5 days a week who read your post and maybe think "well that's ok she's doing that too." No offense meant just want everyone to be safe. :)

I'm not sure if these are across the board limits- but atomic told me 1500-1800 calories a day is the starting point, never to drop less than 1200 and only to go to 1200-1500 if my weight plateaued or if I was super tiny to begin with. And then always 30-60g of fat per day (60g if you're closer to 1800 cal, 30 if you're closer to 1500) and 40-50g of protein every day.
At your current bmi, you will have a hard time fueling your essential systems long term with less than 1500 calories and your reproductive system is one of the first things to stop working if it thinks you are starving so you have to be careful you aren't starving yourself. Our bodies need a minimum amount of fat and protein just to fuel our brains and vital systems, so a 1000 calorie diet with 10g of fat isn't going to cut it to stay fertile at all and might actually land you in the hospital.


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I know that, for me personally, I have a hard time losing weight if I'm much over 1200-1300 calories. It could be because I have a small frame, it could be because I've messed up my metabolism from roughly 14 years of crash diets, starvation diets, etc. Even tried that 500 calorie a day "hCG diet" while walking about 13 miles a day, doing pilates for a half hour a day, weight lifting, going to college full time and working part time while raising 2 kids. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!
I'll definitely be consistently reaching the 1500-1800 range when I start doing cardio and I'm not trying to lose weight right now, per se, I'm just trying to get the hang of the diet, balance my macros, get into a groove, and make sure I'm doing it right and in a way that is healthy for me and any fetuses-to-be.

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Fat needs to be 30-60 (25 is bare minimum)

Protein needs to be 40-50. 20 is not enough

I only have a snapshot of what people mention in a post. Sometimes people may not be giving the whole truth so I "warn first and find details later". Most people are never doing anything harmful but then again sometimes they are, and additionally for everyone who posts 10 more are reading the post so sometimes I have to take the opportunity as it arises to mention something that could possibly be harmful - not necessarily for you but for the other person out there actually eating tuna fish 5 days a week who read your post and maybe think "well that's ok she's doing that too." No offense meant just want everyone to be safe. :)

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Yeah I know you reply to like 7 billion posts a day and likely don't have time to run through and reread all of the posts for all of the tiny details as well. I figured you had probably misunderstood my joke. I don't joke about normal people things. My jokes make people feel a little worse about themselves when they laugh at them. :giggle:

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Originally Posted by Hex

I know that, for me personally, I have a hard time losing weight if I'm much over 1200-1300 calories. It could be because I have a small frame, it could be because I've messed up my metabolism from roughly 14 years of crash diets, starvation diets, etc. Even tried that 500 calorie a day "hCG diet" while walking about 13 miles a day, doing pilates for a half hour a day, weight lifting, going to college full time and working part time while raising 2 kids. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!
I'll definitely be consistently reaching the 1500-1800 range when I start doing cardio and I'm not trying to lose weight right now, per se, I'm just trying to get the hang of the diet, balance my macros, get into a groove, and make sure I'm doing it right and in a way that is healthy for me and any fetuses-to-be.

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If you know from firsthand experience that you need to be at 1200-1500 then that is ok as long as you can get the 40 g min. protein and 25 g min. fat on that. No worries.

I have to keep things really clear for others who may not know as much about weight loss and diet stuff - some people may never post and only read a few threads and so I have to err on the side of sometimes explaining things to people who don't need the explanation.

I do prefer (greatly) that anyone who does not know from extensive previous experience that they will not lose or even gain weight at 1500-1800 cals to start off there. If ya gain fast, up to 1800-2000. If you don't lose weight, add exercise, try one of the alternate diets AND/OR drop cals to 1200-1500. I don't want anyone below 1200 and you have to be able to get 40 g minimum protein and 25 g fat.

Low carb veg are free and unlimited, do not count. (so your calories have to NOT include low carb veg because you do not count them.) Higher carb veg and fruit, free for protein and fat (so your protein and fat intake has to NOT include any nominal protein/fat in higher carb veg or fruit because those are free for those things)

I sometimes get people who count protein in things like cucumbers and iceberg lettuce and think they're geting adequate protein when they're not. Protein has to be quality protein that your body can use and not from something like cucumbers.

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Originally Posted by Hex

I know that, for me personally, I have a hard time losing weight if I'm much over 1200-1300 calories. It could be because I have a small frame, it could be because I've messed up my metabolism from roughly 14 years of crash diets, starvation diets, etc. Even tried that 500 calorie a day "hCG diet" while walking about 13 miles a day, doing pilates for a half hour a day, weight lifting, going to college full time and working part time while raising 2 kids. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!
I'll definitely be consistently reaching the 1500-1800 range when I start doing cardio and I'm not trying to lose weight right now, per se, I'm just trying to get the hang of the diet, balance my macros, get into a groove, and make sure I'm doing it right and in a way that is healthy for me and any fetuses-to-be.

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If you know from firsthand experience that you need to be at 1200-1500 then that is ok as long as you can get the 40 g min. protein and 25 g min. fat on that. No worries.

I have to keep things really clear for others who may not know as much about weight loss and diet stuff - some people may never post and only read a few threads and so I have to err on the side of sometimes explaining things to people who don't need the explanation.

I do prefer (greatly) that anyone who does not know from extensive previous experience that they will not lose or even gain weight at 1500-1800 cals to start off there. If ya gain fast, up to 1800-2000. If you don't lose weight, add exercise, try one of the alternate diets AND/OR drop cals to 1200-1500. I don't want anyone below 1200 and you have to be able to get 40 g minimum protein and 25 g fat.

Low carb veg are free and unlimited, do not count. (so your calories have to NOT include low carb veg because you do not count them.) Higher carb veg and fruit, free for protein and fat (so your protein and fat intake has to NOT include any nominal protein/fat in higher carb veg or fruit because those are free for those things)

I sometimes get people who count protein in things like cucumbers and iceberg lettuce and think they're geting adequate protein when they're not. Protein has to be quality protein that your body can use and not from something like cucumbers.

ok. I use my fitness pal app so I just won't count low carb vegetables in my diary.
I am at 215 g carbs
32 g fat
37 G protein today.
1,328 calories ( I think I tend to underestimate what I eat though too lol because I ate a pile of spaghetti but "pile" is not a selectable serving size.)