Good Fats??? Help needed!

It might have been my nut post which was.......

An easy measurable way of adding very healthy fat is through nuts. I don't normally eat a nut from one year to the next, but following a discusssion with the MAP dietician now keep some in the fridge for an easy top up - remember you have to get to about 30g of fat for the whole Orlistat thing to work properly and you just won't lose weight effectively over the long term with Orlistat if you ignore this and eat less fat.

These portions are all 5g of fat

9 almonds are 55 cals and 5g of fat

5 brazils are 108 cals and 5g of fat

7 hazelnuts are 52 cals and 5 g of fat

6 walnuts are 50 cals and 5g of fat.

If you need to grab more healthy fat at the end of the day to get to your 30g, then 6 almonds + 2 brazil + 5 hazelnuts together give you 9g of fat and about 117 calories.

....and if it is of any help at all, and if you send me your email address in a private message I would be happy to send you my food diary as an example. I can't believe it, but hopefully by my weigh-in next Thursday I will have lost 3 stone since the end of February so even if my food routine doesn't suit you, it can't be rubbish.

Yes that was the post :-) thanks so much for reposting it for me!

Well done on your weight loss - I am now feeling newly inspired!! Will send my email address as would be great to see your food diary as you are most definitely doing something right :D

Food diary is on its way

I'm still quite new and still learning how to eat properly. But I have discovered two things to add fat.

Cheese slices - not the plastic tasting ones they put on burgers but the ones from the supermarket. The calorie and fat content per slice is on the packet and varies whether it is Edam or cheddar or whatever. I love cheese so adding a bit to a meal is no problem.

The other is Petit Filou little puddings. Each pot is 90C and 3.8g fat.

http://www.petitsfilous.co.uk/index.php?page=chocolate%20vanilla%20and%20caramel&titleID=1

Fro reading on here not every one can manage cheese so maybe try it on a day you are at home. Good luck and keep going.

Of course you don't have to aim for 15g of fat in a meal - that is just the orange oil ceiling. If you are aiming for 25-30g a day, then the average fat per meal is more like 8-10g of fat. If you have a meal with just 1 or 2g, then it is harder to get to 30-ish grams a day without blowing the 15g limit for a later meal - and (for what it's worth) my experience is that if I don't manage at least 25g of fat a day on this regime, my weight loss starts to plateau.

Thanks for the pointers and thanks to RR for sending through the email last night.

I am feeling even more confused today... by my calculations I had less than 20g of fat yesterday but I had my first \"orange oil\" experience last night :oops: (thankfully I was in the right place when it happened!!) I think I need to start keeping a log on everything passing my lips so I can at least then recognise any no go areas! I guess it's all about trial and error at the moment... less errors the better though me thinks! :?

At least I know the tablets are working now though :D

This is a subject I am also interested it. I struggle to get to 30g of fat per day and, as a result, run the risk of exceeding the 15g per meal orlistat warning point.

So, for the last 4 weeks my weight loss has stuck.

This is why I am now querying my use of Orlistat.

Lelly xx

As I understand it, if you go below the 30g of fat your body goes into 'starvation mode' and hangs on to all the fat it can. The same would happen without the orlistat if your fat intake is too low.

This would account for why I didn't loose any weight when I had gallbladder problems and was on a VERY small amount of fat.