Keto Diet

lemondrop46
lemondrop46 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 17 in Introduce Yourself
Im new - hello everyone. Im attempting to try the Keto diet. I used the Keto calculater to come up with my daily caliries, protein, fat, carbs etc. It says I should only eat 99g per day. Well this equates to only 3.4 ounces of protein per day. Does this make sense? Im confused.

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    edited April 2017
    lemondrop46 wrote: »
    Im new - hello everyone. Im attempting to try the Keto diet. I used the Keto calculater to come up with my daily caliries, protein, fat, carbs etc. It says I should only eat 99g per day. Well this equates to only 3.4 ounces of protein per day. Does this make sense? Im confused.

    Yes, it makes sense. It's not telling you to eat 100g of chicken (for example) . It's eating enough chicken to get 100g protein. I think 100g raw chicken breast is 30ish grams protein?
  • need2belean
    need2belean Posts: 358 Member
    lemondrop46 wrote: »
    Im new - hello everyone. Im attempting to try the Keto diet. I used the Keto calculater to come up with my daily caliries, protein, fat, carbs etc. It says I should only eat 99g per day. Well this equates to only 3.4 ounces of protein per day. Does this make sense? Im confused.

    No. It's not saying 99grams of chicken. It's saying 99grams of protein. 99grams of cooked chicken only has 27grams of protein in it.
  • mrajon12
    mrajon12 Posts: 11 Member
    It says 99g of Protein.
    Protein includes (in the Keto diet): chicken, turkey, beef, pork, tuna, shrimp, any kind of meat/seafood, and nuts.

    3oz of cooked chicken = ~21g protein
    1 oz of Tuna = ~7.2g of Protein
    1 oz of Almonds = 6g of Protein

    Just be sure to notice that some proteins are higher in calories and fat than others and nuts often have carbs that need to counted as well.
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