paleo diet and goals

There is a group on this site that are strict Paleo followers... I'm more primalish. I allow dairy and alcohol, although limited. I focus my macros so that my Protein is about 120-140 g, CHO around 75-100 g and Fats lower only because I find a higher fat plan doesn't work for me.

Sounds like you are in the right direction with your nutrition and your loss reflects that. Good Luck

I try to keep my ratios around 10% carbs, 20% protein and 70% fat.

The only way I can get my fat that high is to eat an avocado and at least 2 tablespoons of coconut oil every day or I would never make it to the 70% level.

It sounds like your on the right track - you will have to toy around with ratios that work for you.

I'm not doing strict paleo, but more towards primal and only about 80% of the time... Anyway, here's what I do in regards to macro's... Take it for what it is... One non-expert's opinion...

- First, I shoot for 50-100g of carbs. Set your goal to the percentage that gets you close to this.

- Then, I shoot for somewhere between .8 and 1g of protien per pound of lean body mass. I am 220lbs, with 25% BF, so I have about 165 pounds of LBM. Therefore, I set my goal for protien to whatever percentage get's me somewhere around 165g.

- Whatever is leftover percentage wise is my fat goal.

- I recognize however that when excercise raises my caloric goal for the day, my goals for protien and carbs raise with it. Because of this I don't look at my percentages for the day as much as I used to. I tend to focus more on the grams of carbs (max) and protien (min), and less on the percentages. In practice this means that on a day where I have extra excercise calories, I may well eat more fat than a non-excercise day. This is actually often the case for me, but I also don't mind if my carbs get over 100 (still under 150) on excercise days occasionally. I figure there is functionally no max limit for protien, so I let that go as high as it will.

Hope that helps some...

There are no etched in stone macro ratio's, regardless of what someone tries to preach.

All the data regarding H-Ger's is compiled in what is called the Ethnographic Atlas and when they looked at the 220 H-G sites they concluded that the average macro split was 65/35 A/P (animal/plant) which took into account all the variables. Which basically accounted for the seasonal availability of food stuffs based on latitute. Basically you do what feels best because compliance doesn't need confounders.