Should I snack if I need more calories?

[atomic sagebrush]

Since I got this app I know for fact I have never gotten the amount of potassium I should be!

Potassium is not always listed on food labels or in the apps, so you are often getting more than you realize (don't count on that for LE Diet, but just in yoru normal day to day life.)

[atomic sagebrush]

I wish I could eat more without adding too many calories. I am still struggeling to get enough Protein or mainly Fat in my diet. Since I am not very active all the calculators on the internet tell me my limit is 1050 kcal... well this is very hard to do and get enough fat. I can only get 15 g on fat which gives me terrible constipation. But if I eat more fat I go higher in kcal.
All the fat has so many calories and I will go much higher. I am already down to 100, but I think this must be only water because my arms look still fat and I see my muscles. Gotta carry the boys daily same as grocery buys so what can I do.

Regardless of what any calculator on the Internet says, the safe lower limit of calories is 1200 and 1500 is better. This is based on the suggestions of reproductive endocrinologists. We are not doing this solely for losing the max amount of weight to look good in a bathing suit, we need to be able to have a healthy pg at the end of it and so the general online calculators are not appropriate for our purposes.

If you weigh 100 lbs STOP losing weight. You ahve no need to lose any weight at all. Just hold steady where you are at.

[meeks32]

Also, 1500 is safer in case you don't conceive this month, if you have to loose or maintain weight for a few Nash, and started low, you need to loose as slowly as possible, so that you still have some to loose next month if it doesn't all work out. It's a balance between loosing to sway, and not loosing too much, or you stop ovulating and it's all for nothing.

If you hit your 18 bmi try and maintain, rather than loose, so 1500-1800 cals.

[meeks32]

Check out the meal suggestions thread (with pics)

Also download myfitnesspal app or visit website, its better than the other ones.

Pay attention to atomic's percentages of sodium/fat/protein, rather than the actual end number, because the number you are going for will differ depending on how much your target daily total calories is...

[meeks32]

http://www.genderdreaming.com/forum/...ad.php?t=10006

(The meal pics thread)

[AMY]

Thank you! Got to rethink my diet.

[meeks32]

Link to the diet summary:

http://www.genderdreaming.com/forum/...ad.php?t=16780