Not Eating Enough

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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited November 2017
    Surely you are eating some carbs. Vegetables are carbs.

    Also, higher protein diet usually means upping it to around 100 g, which is 400 cal, so how are you only getting 500?

    All that aside, the answer is fat: if you reduce carbs drastically, add in some more fat. Nuts, seeds, nut butter, meat with skin on it, cook veg (if you are eating them) in fat, full fat dairy (inc cheese), olives, avocado, so on. Consider drinking some calories if it's really so hard: protein powder with some nut butter and coconut milk or full fat greek yogurt. Avocado is nice in a smoothie too.

    Also, seems like there may be carbs you don't lack control over: carrots? Or for higher cal, fruit? plain potatoes and sweet potatoes? But anyway doesn't matter -- just add some fat.
  • ugofatcat
    ugofatcat Posts: 385 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    OP, can't you swap out some protein for carbs? You ought to be able to find a balance where you aren't filling up so much on protein that you can't eat an adequate amount of calories.

    Doctors who have little to zero training in nutrition in medical school and no post-medical school education or training in nutrition should be required by law to tell patients that they aren't qualified to advise them on their diet and refer them to a registered dietician or other medical profession who does have the appropriate education. I've lost count of the number of posters whose doctors have told them (for no apparent medical reason) that they need to go low carb to lose weight. It's sad that there would need to be a law, that doctors who should know they don't have any more knowledge or training in this area than the average person on the street should feel comfortable sitting in their office in their white coats with diplomas on the wall and all the implied professional expertise that conveys, and tell their patients what to do to lose weight. GPs don't sit there and say, "the pathology results indicate the tumor is malignant; I'm not an oncologist but let's try this drug anyway." At least, I sure hope they don't.

    While I recognize that doctor's may not have extensive nutrition training, also understand that patients forget 40-80% of what they are told in an appointment. What patient's do remember, half of it usually incorrect. So remember that your narrator may not be the most reliable.

    Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539473/

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