I have followed Montignac and lost a lot of weight. Now, when weight loss has slowned down, I think I need to be more careful with what I'm eating. I'm not sure about the proportions....

I found out that Sugar Busters recommends:
* 30 % protein
* 40 % fat
* 30 % carbs
for a day. Is that something that can be translated to Montignac?

I'm a bit confused:
1. Don't mix fat and carbs
2. Eat fat with carbs and protein at lunch
3. Always eat protein and carbs for every meal

I want to keep down my carbs (I sort of imagine that it's healthy and eating too much lentils/beans gives me a bad stomach - I fell better with less carbs - but *not* as little as in Atkins diet!) so I skip the carbs at lunchtime.
If carbs and fat should not be combined - why carbs to lunch? So I'm sort of thinking I'm doing it right anyway....

Regards

--Maria -26 pounds - so far!

Tried to found out the recommended amount of calories/day:
Montignac suggest 1,3-1,5 g protein/kg body weight and day. I use 1,4 in my calculations.
Apply the Sugar Buster %-age and I get that the total amount of calories for my weight would be 1530/day. (Assuming: 1 g prot= 4kal. 115 g protein = 460 kal)
Sounds quite little...

My other tables suggests that a "normal" person consumes 2460/day (sounds too much to me)
Quite a difference! No wonder I'm loosing weight eating 1000 kal less!

If I some day get my ideal weight and do the same calculations and keep on eating the same amount of protein I would only need 1213 kal/day. Sounds *very* little to me.

So - what have I misunderstood???

(I should never have started to do that daily food journal - seeing all the numbers in print....
)

Hi there!

Welcome!

My advise:- Don't count calories

It seems that you have been losing weight following the montignac method so far. You will have stalls and slow downs.

Keep at what you are doing!

What I did, was adding up the protein (a protein drink/day - have problems eating lots of meat), going back to drinking a glas of skin milk (0.5% of fat) to every meal and - voilà! - started to loose weight again!

I sort of followed the rules given in the chapter for women having problems loosing weight, and it seems to work!

Very Cool!

WAY TO GO