Re: flax seed oil question/betagen

[Guest guest]

Be sure to check out the Big Betagen & Creatine Post

http://www.skwigg.com/wow/id53.html

Don't buy it from GNC if you can help it. Betagen is usually at least $20

cheaper at http://vitaglo.com .

I take 1 Tbsp of flax oil a day and I don't count the calories or fat in any of

my totals. Food is food and supplements are... supplemental. I don't count the

calories from my calcium chews or Betagen either. It's not that they're freebies

or that I'm in denial, it's that their benefits far outweigh any impact they

have on my calorie deficit. If you're starving at 1,350 cals plus a tablespoon

of flax oil, or you're not losing fast enough at 1,750 plus a tablespoon of flax

oil, adjust your *food* calories up or down. Leave the tablespoon of flax alone.

That's my approach anyway.

Re: flax seed oil question/betagen

Hi,

Just wondering if everyone counts their flax seed oil as part of their daily

intake of fat?

Also, can someone explain to me what betagen does? is it really beneficial. I

priced it today at GNC at $59

I am not overweight at this point, realistically. Of course I would still like

to lose more lbs on the scale. I work out 5 days a week so I am really fine

tuning things at this point.

Thanks for the help.

Skwigg, those pics sure gave me some inspiration to become more militant about

my diet and exercise routine again!

[Guest guest]

I'm confused about how to count fat on bfl. Before, I counted the

calories and fat in the tablespoon of flaxseed oil that I take

daily. I can understand not counting it in my daily calorie target

from what I was told here. However, it does make up slightly less

than half of the fat grams that I consume in a day right now. If I

didn't count the fat grams in my totals then I wouldn't be meeting

the 40/40/20 split. How do you folks figure out how to get fat in

your meals each day? The palm/fist method is only for protein and

carbohydrates.

Thanks!

Sparkles

> I take 1 Tbsp of flax oil a day and I don't count the calories or

fat in any of my totals. Food is food and supplements are...

supplemental.

[Guest guest]

Getting fat in your meals actually isn't very hard. You'll get a lot of natural

fats

just in what you eat. Fish, especially cold water ones - salmon and such,

have a lot of great natural fats, whole eggs, dark meat on chicken or turkey,

red meats, even your lean cuts have some fat to them. You can put a light

vinagrette on your salads, using olive oil here works well and it's a heart

healthy oil, etc.

The thing you want to keep in the back of your head is what kind of fat it's

adding and that fat adds more calories per gram than protien and carbs, so

keeping it under your twenty works out. I find that I don't worry about it

much.

Just occassionally toss in one whole egg with my egg white omelete, a Tbs of

peanut butter in a protien shake, light raspberry vinagrette dressing on my

salad... *snorts* Now I went and made myself want to go cook instead of

work. ~ The point being there are lots of options.

http://www.fitday.com

is a fairly good nutritional software. You don't want to get mega dependent on

it, or any software, this leads to obsession...but if you're wondering the break

down on a given food you can search their food list for nutritional facts. Or

plug in your menu for a day and see how it balances. It's a good helper until

you get the hang of it and even sometimes afterwards.

Enjoy.

~Jena

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> > I take 1 Tbsp of flax oil a day and I don't count the calories or

> fat in any of my totals. Food is food and supplements are...

> supplemental.