paleo & calories

nixthefat
nixthefat Posts: 2
in Food and Nutrition
I'm back on the healthy losing weight track after falling through the cracks for ~ten months, thanks to college.
I've been doing a modified paleo diet. The aim is to have my carbs ~100-150 per day.

That being said, I've been eating really healthy, and I feel like I've been consuming a good amount of food, but the food I'm eating is so low cal that I'm only getting around 1000 cals. I know that's not good, but if I eat more just to reach my limit, I'm going to go way over on carbs, which isn't a part of paleo/primal blueprint.

Suggestions/advice? Has anyone out there done paleo/primal blueprint and experienced this?
I'm not hungry at all, the food I've been eating is quite filling.

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  • dsalveson
    dsalveson Posts: 306 Member
    Why do you have to go over on your carbs to eat more food? Chicken, eggs, fish, basically any animal protein, which if you're following anything close to a paleo type diet you should be eating a lot of. Even adding some extra olive oil when preparing the foods you're already eating would work, and nuts/nut butters are pretty calorie dense with not too many carbs. Where are your 100-150 carbs per day coming from?
  • snooj
    snooj Posts: 69 Member
    If you're eating 100-150g carbs a day, that's 400-600 calories. So, half of your calories are from carbs? How about protein and fats, which is what paleo involves a lot of?
  • EmilyTwist1
    EmilyTwist1 Posts: 206 Member
    Healthy fats would be a good way to increase your calories with out increasing carbs. Fats have 9 calories per gram, while protein and carbs only have 4 calories per gram.

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