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Friday, February 12, 2010

Cutting My Carbs

So today I am working on cutting out as many carbs a I possibly can! So for breakfast and lunch I am having the lovely Atkins Advantage shakes! This morning I had the Vanilla one here is what it has:
15g of Protein
1g Sugar
1g Net Carbs
and 150 calories
With PCOS it is very important to limit your carb intake! You consume too many of the wrong carbs and it causes your insilin to go into over drive thus storing all that extra insilin as FAT! So I am going to do my best to watch my carb intake I have gone back to using a useful tool that I was using:
http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate
you can create an account log your food and it shows you how much protein, carbs and fat you are taking in every day! I will warn you do not use their calculater to figure out how many calories you should take in cause well their calculator doesn't work properly it had me taking in way too many calories!
So here is how you figure out how many caloreis you need in order to lose weight:
Women:655 + (4.3 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) - (4.7 x age in years)
Men:66 + (6.3 x weight in pounds) + (12.9 x height in inches) - (6.8 x age in years)
Please note that this formula applies only to adults.
Calculate ActivityStep two: In order to incorporate activity into your daily caloric needs, do the following calculation:
If you are sedentary : BMR x 20 percent
If you are lightly active: BMR x 30 percent
If you are moderately active (You exercise most days a week.): BMR x 40 percent
If you are very active (You exercise intensely on a daily basis or for prolonged periods.): BMR x 50 percent
If you are extra active (You do hard labor or are in athletic training.): BMR x 60 percent
Add this number to your BMR.
The result of this formula will be the number of calories you can eat every day and maintain your current weightt. In order to lose weight, you'll need to take in fewer calories than this result.
As you lose weight, you can re-calculate the formula to assess your new BMR.

I will have another Atkins shake for lunch and I have the Atkins bars for snacks as well! Can't wait to get the new fridge so I can stock it with my fruits and veggies for snack time!
Well hope that this has been of some help to yall! Talk again soon!

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