Hey! I managed to get this "repaired" so I could answer this (not sure if you remember but I couldn't open this thread because there were 2 punctuation marks in the title, irritating glitch). Thanks for your patience.Quote:
Originally Posted by mommymachine
The HE Diet doesn't work like the LE Diet - it doesn't really have the firm limits. While I have "90-120" g protein as a sort of a goal, and 2200-2500 as a sort of goal, the truth is that many women with all girls are very light eaters and simply cannot eat that much. A large minority (even as many as 40% or so) end up somewhere between 70-90g protein, and an even larger minority (about half) of all blue swayers actually eat between 1800-2200 calories.
You may have noticed that I didn't list "fat" in those macros, and that's because fat is just an "eat as much as you can" kind of thing. People need to eat somewhere in the range of 70-120 g protein and 1800-2500 calories, depending on their individual metabolisms, their starting weights, the amount of exercise they're doing, if they're breastfeeding, and so forth - since some people don't gain any weight on HE, others gain like 1-3 lbs, others gain 5-8, and the thinnest people gain up to 15 lbs. AND we also aim at getting that 9-11 servings of fruit and veg if possible, cereal at least once a day usually, plus things like whatever side dishes like hamburger buns, potatoes, rice, etc that you need to get the protein foods down. So fat should just be "whatever amount of healthy and/or saturated animal fat is left available to get up to the cals needed after I've eaten my protein, fruit, veg, cereal. You'll get some fat thru the milk on cereal and the fat in the meat and stuff, but you fill in the gaps between what you must eat and the cals you need by then using things like butter, cheese, mayo, salad dressings, olive oil, nuts to get up to your cal intake.
