I do the same as Babe

I've only been on this plan for about 1.5 weeks, so I'm not in a position to be giving advice or anything, but you did get me curious about what my macros were in comparison to others.

HC day: 1500 cal, 208g carbs, 46g fat, 87g protein
LC day: 1200 cal, 60g carbs, 82g fat, 85g protein

I was doing an english muffin at breakfast on LC days, but I was thinking that it was making my carbs for the day too high, and a couple of hours after breakfast on LC day was the only time I was really getting hungry (I do get a little hungry right before bed, but it is pretty mild) so I cut out the english muffin and added more fat and that seems to have fixed the hunger issue so it has lowered my carbs on LC days.

Glad to see that you found what works for you! Chris wants us to have a HC breakfast every morning because it helps "stoke the fire" to get you up and moving in the morning. So, if you want to try going back to a HC breakfast, perhaps try fruit instead of a bread product... and maybe add some veggies in an omlette or egg scramble (and eat between 15-20g of protein at this meal)... if you do all that, you might just find that the hunger issue is fixed.. or maybe not. Do what works for you!

I had/have the same issues after breakfast. With my HC breakfast shake, I find myself hungry in only 2 hours or so instead of 3... so I simply have my morning snack at the 2 hour mark when I need to, and call it good. I also found that for me, I needed more protein and less fat to keep me full. I generally stick between 100-120g of protein a day... sometimes more, but almost always above 100g. Since doing that, I've found two things. 1) I'm rarely hungry during the day. A major plus I think. 2) My nails have never been stronger. I can actually grow out nice long beautiful nails, and they rarely break anymore.

-sarah

I wonder why Powell does not prescrive specific targets for Carbs/proteins/fats in his book? -
the hand measuring measuring system he shows seems inprecise and error prone.

I took a sample Powell meal plan i found on a Dr Oz site and calculated all macronutrients and computed the following

HC Days: 49% Carb, 43% Pro 8% fat (% of daily calories where carb/protein are 4 cals/gr, fat is 9 cal/gr)
LC Days: 23% Carb, 41% Pro 16% fat

This was just for the sample meal plan given, but its probably close to what he would recommend for all meal plans. Looks like he recommends protein should be the same % of cals for both LC and HC days.

So for Carbs:
1200 cal day LC=70gr
1500 cal day LC=86gr HC=184gr
2000 cal day HC=245gr