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Bacon question please help
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I stress about the details. I can't help it. I either micro-manage every little thing I put in my mouth, or I eat with abandon. There's no middle ground for me. I tend also to only eat things that come in a packet with a label. And individual serves is great (like those little 40g tubs of Philadelphia cream cheese). I weigh my butter every time I put it in my coffee. I weigh my mayo. Everything.
Calories matter to me. I know some of you say they don't but guess what? if you don't eat at a deficit, you don't lose weight. I've tried only counting carbs, and I don't lose weight eating in excess of 2000 cals a day - even at only 10g of carbs.
No one has said that calories don't matter, nor that you can lose weight eating at a surplus (Goat is the outlier on the high end). What most here say is that counting calories isn't generally necessary on this way of eating if you heed your hunger signals and don't eat for reasons other than hunger. IE- eat only when your hungry and stop when your satiated, before stuffed.
2000 calories is too much for you lose weight. That's fine. You don't naturally restrict your intake even on LCHF and need to track calories, that's okay, too (some can't).0 -
2.5 oz? Did you really eat that little? That's like 70g! It's nothing.
But, yeah, it probably would be around 100 calories.
Yeah, I usually do 2-3 oz of meats per serving. I have a daily protein goal of 65g.
My numbers are:
1,300 cals
16g carbs
108g fat
65g protein
Not a lot of wiggle room.
-T.
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I don't even claim I am losing while eating at a surplus. I am eating more than the formulas say I should. But, clearly those are wrong or missing something. Because I am losing weight. So, what I am eating must be a deficit. My argument is simply that there's just too much we don't know.
Calories_in +/- {some unknowable amount of error} = BMR +/- {some vastly unknowable and unpredictable values that changes all the time}
We act like we can know or at least adjust for these unknowable amounts, but we really can't. At least, we can't to any significant degree.
@shai74 I hope you eventually learn to trust your body again. It took me a while too. I had been betrayed far too many times. It may be only after you've neared your goal that it will happen. I just hope it does. It's too hard to worry about the details 24/7.
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Seriously!
@Teneko, if you want to check info on unlabeled meats, use this site: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/
You should find a corresponding entry on MFP for everything listed there. Use a web browser instead of the app, and don't use entries in the database that have a * at the front - those are user written entries. Once you've got an entry in for each kind of meat you normally use, they should stick in your recent foods list, so you can enter from the app again, and be sure you're using an accurate one.0 -
LOL, I just think it's a weird thing to put on a burger. I've actually grown quite fond of it, lately, but it's still not something I normally do.0 -
@Teneko, if you want to check info on unlabeled meats, use this site: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/
You should find a corresponding entry on MFP for everything listed there. Use a web browser instead of the app, and don't use entries in the database that have a * at the front - those are user written entries. Once you've got an entry in for each kind of meat you normally use, they should stick in your recent foods list, so you can enter from the app again, and be sure you're using an accurate one.
Oh my goodness, thank you. Since I'm newly returned to eating meats (26 years of NOT), I'm not even sure what kind of pork chops I have sometimes, so the list of chops is just so confusing to me which is part of my problem.
I'll try to make my own little list and log with that, test, then adjust if needed.
-T.
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