too many calories on atkins?

owl?

what is owl? I'm not sure I follow what your plan is here.

I'm not an Atkins expert, but if I were you I'd cut back on the fats a little and exchange them for a little more protein. Also make sure the calories in the database match up with your food labels. Some of those calorie counts seem high...like the coconut oil and the cream.

more protein less of the fats, plus the Atkins diet is horrible and hardly ever works out for people because they just revert back to their old habits. Need to balance out all macros, eat healthy non-processed foods, and maintain a good diet to keep results you have made.

Yeah, that doesn't look like enough, food-wise.

Like, you can lose weight eating nothing but chocolate, as long as you're under your calorie goal, but you're going to be constantly hungry and tired because it's not enough food.

Like, ten chocolate bars is 2,100 calories.
You're going to be hungry if all you is is ten chocolate bars a day

Or you could eat proteins and veggies and a little fat and you'll be so full you might have to make yourself eat to reach your calorie goal.

Protein keeps you full. Atkins is a quick way to lose weight but not a life style. Have you tried the 40/30/30 diet? 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat??

^This

Just looked at today's diary, but yeah, you are getting a high amount of calories from very little food. I do LCHF as well, but I get 80-110 gr of protein in everyday, and I get more food from my fat calories, i.e. nuts and avocados.
My macros are 50%Fat/30%Pro/20%Carb

My days are usually filled with so much food that it feels like I am eating all the time. And I stay around 1200 cals. I am never truly starving hungry. You probably need more cals than I do, as I am 5'6", 49, and fairly sedentary. But I would surely suggest you get more solid food in your diet, and less mass quantities of creams and other fats.

A good example of my usual lunch is a large omelet made with 3/4 c Egg beaters, 1/4 c fat free cheese, 2 cups of spinach, 2 large portabello mushrooms, onions and garlic, and 2 oz of ham or turkey sausage. I add 2 tbsp of salsa and 1/4 of an avocado on top and have a massive amount of food that keeps me full for hours, for around 325 cals.

So up your protein, and eat more veggies!

owl?

what is owl? I'm not sure I follow what your plan is here.

It looks like a segment of Atkins - Ongoing Weight Loss.

http://www.atkins.com/Program/Phase-2/Objectives-of-OWL.aspx


And OP -why do you think one "shouldn't worry too much about calories"?

Calorie reduction is how you lose weight.

Makes sense.

Also, calorie reduction is indeed how you lose weight. Might wanna consider a more balanced intake. That way, you won't be nearly as hangry.

that is probably due to the type of calories you have. it is waaay better to have some whole grain bread, for example. Like, 50gr is only about 150 calories and it will fill you up!

Thanks for all the replies, I need to re-think methinks.....

The reason Im eating so much fat is because thats what atkins diet says (I'm prob eating too much cream fat) The cream and marcapone is made up with sugar free jelly to fill me.
Atkins 65% fat
Coconut oil in coffee, 10g at a time-meant to be fantastic

Ok so I should have more protein and on other days when I included more meat and/or eggs I did seem to do better.

I dont want to eat too much protein either as I want to get into ketosis for loosing.

owl is ongoing way of life in atkins.

I am so confused as well as hungry

Why do you have to be in ketosis to lose weight? I eat lots of carbs and the weight's still coming off. I tried a low carb diet before and was hungrier too. Maybe it's not the right diet plan for you?

I looked at your food diary and you are not on Atkins. Are you drinking the coconut oil? 50 g. is a lot of oil. Also, the marscapone cheese will not keep you full like another piece of chicken would. And the double cream, I googled that because I had never heard of it, and it compared it to creme fraiche here in the US. Are you just eating that like jello or something? Again, I would replace that with an actual protein, like beef, chicken, fish or even beans. I've done Atkins before and currently am doing something similar with no grains and no sugar and I'm never hungry except at meal times. Good luck!

^This. Fiancee and I are on Atkins right now, and we are only hungry when we should be... no cravings like before, and no more lethargy. I don't know what you are doing with all that cream/fat, but I would also suggest eating some some good protein. Fat is good on Atkins, but eating creamy fats is NOT what that means.

Just eat some bacon.. wrap your chicken with bacon. GO.

Also, try to have at least 1-2 cups of veggies... fiancee and I eat a whole head of romaine daily, and getting through that is tough. It fills you up like nothing else does.

I'm doing Atkins too but don't even count the cheese if it has 0 carbs. Starting second week now but lost 6 lbs first week. Should I be watching the cheese amount? I'd be interested in your cheat sheet.