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I don't think that's extreme at all. I eat no bread, no rice, no potatoes, no pasta, no milk, but do have a couple of spoonfuls of full fat plain unsweetened greek yoghurt. Two meals a day. I don't usually snack, but if I'm feeling hungry I'll have an apple or a handful of nuts.

I do, however indulge every so often when I'm in a social setting. For example, I had a slice of black forest cake at the last meetup & it was soooooo yummy.....but it was back to normal the next day, and I don't think I've had anything 'bad' since then.

 

Sort of. The problem with this philosophy is that it assumes all calories are equal. They are not.

Why “Calories in, Calories Out” Doesn't Tell The Whole Story

I can eat well and work out and gain weight muscle. That's good. I can sit around watching tv and eating too much fructose and gain weight in the form of visceral abdominal fat. That's bad.

I agree both require a calorie surplus but I don't agree that both outcomes are the same. I think it comes back to the lies the diet and exercise industries have been feeding us: gain weight bad, lose weight good. Neither of these are true.

 

Completely agreed about the outcome but the fact that more calories means more weight(can be fat or muscle) still stands.
I eat pretty close to 40% fat,40% protein and 20% carbs and that's just averaging things out and not counting calories. All pretty much natural foods except for whey protein shake.
Hard to get facts these days but a balanced natural diet away from processed food with a bit of exercise can't go wrong for staying in good shape.

 

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That looks yummy! I haven't been counting calories, or the specific breakdown in grams, like you have here....and I'm still losing weight, but this prompted me to input my own lunch into a program to see what I had just eaten.

2 x tomatos
1 x onion
1 x large carrot
1 x large handful of kale
2 x slices of Halloumi Cheese

This was stir-fried with some garlic paste. It has a lot more calories, and carbs, than I thought, when I add the coconut oil that I cooked it in and an apple afterwards.

The total for the meal was:
24.36g fat, 47.31g carbs, 13.40g protein, 460 total calories.

The apple pushed my carbs up, but for diner I'll just be having a veggie omelete with cheese, so that will push up both the fat & protein count for the day, with only a very small rise in the carbs.