Wed, Jan-14-09, 10:39
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Plan: My own
Stats: 250/161.4/130
BF:
Progress: 74%
Location: Central FL
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Originally Posted by LessLiz
I don't think eating a 65% fat diet could cause rabbit starvation, do you? I can say that I become grossly ill if the fat content of my diet reaches 75% or more. People want to say that it's lack of fat or too much protein, but that doesn't square with what I ate which ran 65 - 68% fat.
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Well, 65% is fine if you're eating more carbs than "zero", but if you were eating "zero" carbs, with 65% fat, then you had increased your protein to nearly 35%, which is a lot to me, especially if one has blood sugar issues or is diabetic. Here's a very timely article for this discussion that showed up yesterday about a new calculator for figuring out ketogenic macronutrient ratios: Optimum Nutrient Balance on a Ketogenic Diet |