Its a note card with what is supposed to be the ideal protein, fat, and carb amounts for keto. I weigh 160# while dehydrated and I need 1900 calories for the day, divided by five meals leaves me with 380 caloires per meal.
I'm slightly slow, mentally, so I gathered up measured foods and their lables, then played with the macro nutrients until I worked out a meal with good protein/carb/fat totals. The card contains the food, amount, calories for each food, total calories, and total macro-nutrients. When its meal time, I can take a card and forget about the macros, because the macros are totaled up on the card.
I keep another card for each meal of the day, marked by total calories, but since yesterday, I have simply been entering everything into the Fitday software and that lets me touch up the ratios at the end of the day, if one happens to be higher than the other. I'm moving away from recording all of my meals on a seperate card to track intake, since I can do it a lot better with Fitday.
Egg - 3 large - 240 calories
Butter - 1Tbs - 100 calories
Chicken 1/4th cup - 50 calories
3.0 grams of carbs (from the eggs)
28.5 grams of fat
29.1 grams of protein
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390 calories total
Based on 1900 calories / 5 meals / 380 calories per meal.
28 grams protein / 29.7 grams fat / 0 grams carb
^^ thats whats on one card ^^
I only have about three cards so my choices are limited, too lazy to go make more since they take time to get them right. I think starting with a clean protein source, then a clean fat source, and having a third option to touch up the ratios, is a good way to make to start. Ex Chicken + olive oil + almonds. I don't get many calories so that is another limit on my creativity.
140 grams protein and 148.8... grams fat, is the ideal ratio I need for a day, or 28G protein and 29.76G fat per meal.
I hope this diet works, my sex drive is absolutely dead and I doubt that is good...
I gathered the idea from something my dad did when he was into bodybuilding, and that was to put the food / serving / macros, onto a note card, I took it a step further and put the whole meal on the card.
<message edited by thunderblood on Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:28 AM>