How many Carbs, Proteins and Fats should I eat?

Anvasilak
Anvasilak Posts: 21 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I want to lose 1.5 lbs. per week. What should the percentages be for carbs, fat and proteins?

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  • Anvasilak
    Anvasilak Posts: 21 Member
    Thank you!
  • alealehandraa
    alealehandraa Posts: 23 Member
    @MichelleSilverleaf i was commenting my experience, i belive it doesn't hurt to try and find out :) i also tried various diets that had no effect on me, and this is the first 1 that is working
  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    edited February 2018
    alealehandraa wrote: »
    @RAinWA that's a new thing, even i can't believe it . I even try to eat more but i can't. Of course if i start feeling bad i'll cut it but i'm totally good for now ^^

    Then why are you doing it? You have to know it is not good for your health.

    Odd - your post was cut off but when I quoted it I got the rest.

    And by the time you start to feel bad that damage is already done. Come back and tell us you are still "totally good" when your hair starts falling out.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    alealehandraa wrote: »
    @diannethegeek about that it isn't for weight loss. But as i already said- not for everyone. Your way is the safest ofc. but i like things a bit faster, no matter a little struggle :)

    Keto/low carb isn't necessary for weight loss, nor is it guarantee that you'll lose weight. You can easily eat too much as fat is so calorie dense...
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Anvasilak wrote: »
    I want to lose 1.5 lbs. per week. What should the percentages be for carbs, fat and proteins?

    As was said upthread, calories are what matter for weight loss. For macros, I treat proteins and fats as minimums to get every day (at least .6-.8 g protein per pound of body weight and at least .3-.4 g of fat per pound) and I fill in the rest of my calories with whatever I want, including carbs. Anything beyond that should be determined by you. As you go, you can pay attention to what kinds of foods and macros make you feel best and adjust as you need to.
  • 1houndgal
    1houndgal Posts: 558 Member
    alealehandraa wrote: »
    @MichelleSilverleaf i was commenting my experience, i belive it doesn't hurt to try and find out :) i also tried various diets that had no effect on me, and this is the first 1 that is working

    You made it sound like cutting carbs way down, one can lose weight. There are more ways than to lose weight.
  • alealehandraa
    alealehandraa Posts: 23 Member
    @1houndgal i just wrote my experience, like everyone else is writing "what's the best" but i think every person individually must find whats best for him besides ofc eating less and optionally putting a little workout in
  • MichelleSilverleaf
    MichelleSilverleaf Posts: 2,027 Member
    alealehandraa wrote: »
    @livingleanlivingclean i've never experienced negative effect of eating large amout of lettuce, zucchini or cucumber for ex. which are my favourite. And i believe my body loves it too. As long as there are no fast food i'm all good :smiley:

    You'll feel good - until you don't. And like others said, by then it's too late. Brittle nails, hair falling out, damage to internal organs, some damage is going to be irreversible. Not to mention the fact that severely undereating is just going to cause you to put all the weight back on when you reach your goal, since you're not learning anything about proper meals and nutrition. And you'll have a really poor amount of muscle mass when you're done, and have a lot harder time re-building it than if you'd thought to preserve it in the first place. That's not a matter of opinion, that's what's going to happen if you do this too long.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Anvasilak wrote: »
    I want to lose 1.5 lbs. per week. What should the percentages be for carbs, fat and proteins?

    To get your thread back on track..

    Calories determine weight loss.
    Macros can help satiety and some fitness goals, and there are minimums required for good health.

    The thing with satiety is different things work for different people. So start with the MFP defaults and start making notes on days you hit your calorie goal easily and days you struggled with hunger. After a couple of weeks, look at how your macros looked on those days and see if you notice a pattern, then tweak from there. Some people do perfectly fine on the default macros.

    So focus on the calories and look at macros as a guideline and something to pay more attn to if you need to :drinker:
  • ceiswyn
    ceiswyn Posts: 2,256 Member
    alealehandraa wrote: »
    @1houndgal i just wrote my experience, like everyone else is writing "what's the best" but i think every person individually must find whats best for him besides ofc eating less and optionally putting a little workout in

    So if you think everyone has to find what's best for them individually, why didn't you say that rather than telling the OP they have to do low carb?

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