I finally had to bite the bullet, analyse my food intake and see where I am going wrong. It turns out that I was eating at least 180 grams of pure proteins a day! I am 5ft3 (and a half – it counts!) and weight approximately 8st 11 – trying to get to 8st10. Also I am a 47 year old mum of ten year old twin girls; I don’t know if that has any bearing (hope so!).

Today i painstakingly entered my adjusted intake into Fitday.com and can advise that my analysis is:

Calories 1,326
Fat % – 53
Protein % – 42
Carb % – 5
Alcohol % – 0!

This is and/or will be consumed as follows:

Breakfast: Omelette – one whole egg, two white, tsp butter one rasher of bacon,2 cherry toms
Lunch: MIM
Dinner: Turkey 100g and Chicken 100g on BBQ, Salad, 2 tbsp homemade mayo

Snack/drinks: Soya milk unsweetened 200 mls, 100g Fromage Frais – low fat (same carbs as full fat yoghurt), Sucralose, 60 ml single cream

Am I finally now doing it right?

Also drinking loads of green tea and tap water.

If there is any tweaking or further adjusting necessary, please let me know.

Ann


Ann

So upping the fat and/or dropping the protein a tad will get you closer to the usually accepted Atkins norm of 65/30/5 ratios

Was the turkey and chicken low in fat too? You might need to find a way of adding fat to that meal. ~How highfat is your homemade mayo?

As someone who was on the Dukan diet it must be hard converting to a higher fat regime, but maybe drop the lowfat fromage frais - ~even though as lowcarb as fullfat yogurt it probably is higher in protein and lower in fat.

Soya milk is not an Atkins induction "legal" option, but I am not sure if you are on induction or OWL. ~It could be a rung 6 OWL addition if you are allowing yourself soya products.


Well done on this!