Starting 8/11 - Tons of questions
nancyblackmer
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Help! A meal is the same size as snacks? The calories don’t seem to add up to 1200 or 1500 either day … and I supposed to have more than 1 portion if I want to loose like 50 bs? Does Chris have a cookbook? Is fruit really considered a carb??? Can I have a shale with oatmeal and fruit in the morning, or is it one or the other??? Anyone want to join this thread and take the plunge together?
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Hi there,
I'll try and help
A meal is the same size as snacks? - I find it better to make the snacks a bit smaller and make the meals a bit bigger, but thats personal preferance. So for a 1500 calorie day I would do
B - 300
S - 200
L 300
S 200
D - 500
The calories don’t seem to add up to 1200 or 1500 either day … and I supposed to have more than 1 portion if I want to loose like 50 bs? - The 1200 / 1500 is a guide for the average person it's not exact for everyone. Use the calorie chart in the book to find your High Carb day amount or use MFP. I.e I have a mainteance of 2150 I deduct 500 to get 1650 and thats what I use for my HC days.
Does Chris have a cookbook? - Nope but there are loads of web sites with low carb meal and snack ideas#
Is fruit really considered a carb? - Yes a fruit has alot of fructose in it and sugar is a carb
Can I have a shale with oatmeal and fruit in the morning, or is it one or the other??? - You can have carb in the morning just watch your total calorie consumption for that meal
Anyone want to join this thread and take the plunge together? - I am in week 4 of the classic cycle so quite new myself. Good luck!0 -
thank you so much for replying!! I am still trying to get organized, I was on the FAST METABOLISM DIET by Halee Pomeroy, but it didn't seem to work for me. So this is next0
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Welcome to the group Nancy. I basically do the same as acahane. My meals are usually a little higher calorie count than my snacks. Not too much though. I usually try to bulk up more with my meals. Such as: for breakfast I will have a toasted English muffin with 1/2 cup egg whites-which makes enough for the sandwich and then cook up some mixed peppers and mushrooms in olive oil spray just to prevent sticking. It actually fills up my plate but only has about 250 cals. Then for snack I will have a yogurt with blueberries and chia seeds, and .5 oz of nuts. Then for lunch I will bulk up my meal again and have a full dinner salad (usually about 15 oz of greens made up of whatever I have in the fridge-mixed greens,cucumber,peppers,tomato,radish,celery,etc) with green olives and 4 oz of chicken breast with either red wine vinegar or 2 tblsp of low fat low cal dressing. Basically what I'm trying to say is that my main meals are larger in size but not really in calories, and my snacks are smaller in size but are equal in cals to my main meals. Hope this helps. Good luck.
Also, I use Fitday to track my meals and fat/carb/protein ratios. I find this really helps me to stay on track and be able to look back to see what has worked for me and what hasn't.
Hang in there. Its a great program.0 -
I hope there is a leaning curve - I tracked it all - and went over by 150 calories.... can any one share what they are eating??? I think I need a few samples. I think I messed up. ANy suggestions?? Here was my day:
calories
WHEY SHAKE & OATMEAL & fruit 340
cottage cheese on the boarder (book) (YUMMY) 336
1 cucmber (45) & 2 TBSP hummus (46) 91
Ckn + spin +dressing 197
4 eggs whites (63) and sting cheese (50) 113
CHICKEN SAL RECIPEE 2670 -
thank you sherri!! I just saw your post!! This will be so much help!0
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No problem. It takes time to used to. Good luck!0
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I just started today so haven't had time to go shopping but here is my meal plan for today...
Breakfast:
4 egg whites with 1 cup spinach/baby kale adn 1/4 avocado
1 scoop protein powder in water
Snack:
1 scoop protein powder in water
dannon lite and fit vanilla greak 2x yogurt
Lunch:
4 oz turkey breast deli slice
1 oz Camembert cheese
1 cup spinach/baby kale
1 large carrot
PM snack:
1 scoop protein powder in water
String Cheese
Dinner:
don't know yet.
once i get to the store I can get more veggie variety and make some actual meals/food. haha!0 -
I had my best results with CTL when did the following:
Ate every meal with the recomended combinations of foods, in the hand size quantities that Chris suggested
Ate every 3 hours (not more than 4)
Drank as much water as I could get down. I was never to the quantity that Chris suggested in the book.. but I was better than I would do if left to my own devices.
So, this means that at every meal (including breakfast if you can manage it) you should have veggies and protein.
On high carb days you add a fist of carbs at every meal
On low carb days you add a thumb of fat at every meal but breakfast.
Breakfast is always a High Carb meal
Edit to add: each meal was roughly the same size calorie wise... give or take 50 calories usually.
Really, the plan worked best for me if I didn't tinker with it.
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