Guest guest Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 I always remembered what a Nurse Practioner said to me once about loosing weight. She said to loose weight to keep at 20 grams of fat a day. To maintain weight to eat 30 grams of fat a day. When I started to read fat grams on labels or at Fast food. I would relate the Big mac as being about 2 DAYS worth of fat. 'that is all I can have for 2 DAYS!!!' It just put things in perspective. I will have to pick up that book. I have a 1 year old, and I don't want him to learn that he has to clean the plate. Since I hear so many people including a few relatives always say to their kids " you have to eat everything on your plate " or " are you eating what's on your plate " It just drives me crazy. I have heard that by the age of 5 most kids have lost the ablity to eat when they are hungry, and eat because they are told to and at certain times of day. I am sure part of that has to do with School too. They only have set times to eat. that's my $.02 Beckie who is still working on the 21 day challenge. > > You've gotten a lot of great advice & I hope you are feeling better > about what you have accomplished. > > I did want to note that a friend of mine has written a book " Thin > People Don't Clean Their Plates " and in it she suggests eating 30 to > 40 grams of fat. Here I had been just making sure I was at 20% to > 30% - well, a lot of days, it even staying in that percentage, it was > higher then the 30 to 40 grams. > > Just wanted to mention it, take it as you will. > > Best of luck in your journey! And congratulations on the 10 inches > lost! I did Taebo for many, many years and only lost 10 pounds, but I > lost a lot of inches. le > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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