Katra > wrote:
>In article >,
> Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>
>> Katra > wrote:
>> >Tried a new way to fix carrot chunks.
>>
>> My diet's kinda weird these days (has to do with losing
>> weight and maintaining muscle), but the way I tune the
>> ratios is with carrots for carbs and almonds or olives
>> for "good fat". The three go together really well. I
>> just eat them alongside whatever else I'm eating, but
>> I suppose I could figure out a way to process them for
>> presentation and integration.
>>
>> "Every protein's sacred."
>
>I'm there myself. ;-)
>Trying to keep the starch carbs down.
>Do look carrots up in the food tables tho',
>they are not as evil as you think!

Who said carrots are evil? They're one of my favorite
foods. And dead easy to calculate, because they're 1
gram of carbs per 10 grams of carrot, with 10 of those
pre-peeled carrotlets per 85 grams. Oh, and 2 almonds or
3 olives is 2 grams of fat. Makes it a cinch to dial
in the numbers for science.

You don't want to keep your starch carbs down. You want
to split your carbs between starchy (potatoes, bread, etc.)
and fibrous (green and yellow veggies) at every meal.

People are different, and I've been modulating my
carb-protein-fat ratios from 30-45-25 to 45-40-15 to see
what works best (those numbers are percentage calories,
not grams). I'm up to 45% of calories from carbs now,
and it's going slower, so I may drop that to 40% for
the next two weeks and see how things graph.

40-45% is way more protein calories than a maintenance diet
needs, but I'm trying to fight reality and actually build
new muscle while cutting fat, which is theoretically and
empirically impossible. But a goal is a good thing.

Losing weight is all about how many calories you eat
relative to energy output. The ratios just help determine
what sort of weight you'll lose, and modulate the rate
at which you lose fat and/or muscle. Cut out protein and
carbs, and you will go right into starvation mode and end
up nothing but fat and bones, then skin and bones. Cut out
carbs alone and the same will happen, slightly slower,
because carbs are needed to help protein cycle into muscles
(it's always cycling in and out, and without carbs, it just
cycles out.) Cut out too much fat and you'll be deficient in
essential oils; I can't remember offhand what that does to
you, but it's disease-like; I also remember that if 12-15%
of your calories are "good fat", you'll actually burn your
fat stores a little faster throughout the day.

One thing I do know is, trying to keep to that nutbar Atkins
thing is just going to make people sick.

--Blair
"Well, everyone except his
widow's accountant."