Lc

Redgurlsouth

I am working my way toward this but looking for knowledge. What are the good fats and the bad. Will i have to give up my cottage cheese. My snack of choice.

KateTii

I don't like to think of them as "good" and "bad" as in moderation, nothing is "bad" and in excess, anything can be "bad", even the "good stuff".

However, it's generally considered "healthy" to avoid fats from things like fast food and have fats from more "natural" sources such as avocado, eggs, cottage cheese.

You don't need to 100% eliminate "bad" fats, your body can handle them, I just wouldn't recommend a diet of 100% greasy hamburgers, chips and kebabs.

dlkfox

Cottage cheese is a great source of calcium! Just fit it into your calorie goals.

No good/bad foods....just moderation not excess.

ogmomma2012

Cottage cheese is totally low carb, I would choose a higher fat content because that means lower carbs.

Gallowmere1984

vOv I eat all of the cheeses, a buttload of unsalted butter, heavy cream, use olive oil and sausage fat in most cooking, and coconut oil here and there. I was having serious problems keeping fat intake up until I started including those.

jessiethe3rd

Good fat...

Coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, grassfed animal fats, walnut oil, ghee, Palm oil

Bad fats...

Vegetable oil, linseed oil (grapeseed), corn oil, soy bean oil.

Cottage cheese (get it whole) is low carb.

tlflag1620

Really, the only truely "bad" fats are trans fats (hydrogenated or partially hydrogentated oils). Beyond that getting too much omega 6 and not enough omega 3 can be bad, so up your intake of oily fish, and decrease the amount of liquid oils. Minimally processed fats are healthy (butter, lard, tallow, cold pressed oils, etc), as well as the fats naturally occurring in foods.

As others have said, cottage cheese is LC friendly; you may want to opt for the full fat kind.