Overall in a day my wife and I are under on our fat content %. Hard to believe I know. We tried to eliminate all excess fat items, and switched to lower fat ones ie FF Yogurt, FF Dressing, Light Cottage Cheese, light cheddar some of the time, lean meats etc. But apparently that was a little too much. Too little fat in your diet and one of the major issues is, you hair falls out. We haven’t hit that point as we do have some fats in our diet, but I think we need to balance off the carbohydrates with a little more fat. This for me is a hard pill to swallow, as most of my life “FAT is the enemy, cut out fat from your diet to lose weight, etc.” But we are trying to have a balance diet, so if we increase the fat, our carbs should go down, provided we keep to the calorie allotment.
To help bring up our fat content we have introduced 2% cottage cheese, and OMG Homo Milk. That is 3.25% creamy milk. I grew up on homo, but in adulthood switched to 2% in an attempt to limit fat. As why I’m here, that really was a drop in a bucket that didn’t help. The down side to having yummy milk in the house, what goes well with milk? COOKIES.
This past week my wife and I have been under our net calories near the end of the day. This is due to Fitbit adjustment and or exercise credits. To top off the calorie balance we have been having milk and cookies. So that is upping our carbs (sugars) along with the milk to bring up the fat, therefore not really increasing our fat %. However, the cookies are also trying to sneak in other areas. Today is tea Tuesday, which also has cookies available and because I have been having cookies, I’m almost craving them. I don’t think I will be able to resist tea and cookie(s). Another sneaky cookie, on the weekend morning, I had a cookie with my coffee. A long time habit I had well into my adulthood, once again 2% milk to save fat, but having cookies for breakfast. I know how I got here; not very good choices. Don’t dwell on the past, just try and not have history repeat itself.
My challenge to myself this week was to be as close the net 0 calories as possible for eating, to try the “Eat more to lose weight” but what is another food that is good for topping off calories, that is mostly eek, FAT. Plus eating in late evenings isn’t very good, but I don’t want to eat too much during the day and end up going over. This is a delicate maneuver.....calorie balancing. I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it soon enough.
In general cooking I’m going to start to include olive oil to help increase a little, but that can be another slippery slope, literally. Those fat calories add up quickly. For every gram of fat it is 2.25 times the calories per gram of carb or protein.
Today I’m starving. Not too sure why. I’m not very active, eaten a little less than usual, but not that much less. Weird.
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