Quote (Abarka @ Oct 8 2011 01:57pm)
I have a few questions because i'm very new to dieting.
Are calories and calories from fat different? What i mean is if you have 200 calories and 50 calories from fat, does that mean there's 250 calories or 150 regular calories and 50 fat calories?
And when you say 70% calories from fat and 30% calories from protein does that mean out of 2,200 calories roughly 1500 of them should come from my fatty foods and 700 should come from my protein foods?
Also, does full fat cheese say full fat cheese on it?
Thanks
Don't overthink this.
Calories from fat are the same as calories from protein or carbs.
The whole "calories from fat" idea spawned many years ago when people believed that eating fatty foods would make you fat. To be quite honest this is not the case.
Calories are priority, with carbs second to that.
When I say 70% calories from fats, keep in mind that a gram of fat is 9 calories and a gram of protein is 4 calories (also a gram of carbs is 4 calories as well)
calculate everything based on that.
edit ::
example, 100g of fat = 900 cals and 100g of protein = 400 cals. That is approximately 70% fats and 30% protein.
This post was edited by SKCRaynor on Oct 8 2011 02:52pm