Also, I know that 3 Fat Chicks is popular: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/
I hope you find somewhere that makes you feel supported – it’s so important!

PS : I think you made a slip when you put the calculation of net carbs as “Net carbs = Total Carbs – Sugar” Should be Net Carbs = Total carbs – FIBER

Starting with breakfast, why would you replace the egg fat with dairy fat? You can get very high quality omega-3 enriched eggs (just means they fed the chickens flax seed) that would be superior, at least in my opinion, to the cheese. Omega-3 eggs are around a 1:1 ratio of n-3:n-6. The processed dairy is almost pure n-6. Plus, the carbmaster yogurt is extremely processed. Reading the ingredient list looks like a chemistry experiment, not a grocery list. Why not just some simple high-quality greek style yogut (which is just cultured dairy, nothing else) or no dairy all together? And why no veggies?

Moving to lunch, why split it into 2 meals? There is no metabolic advantage to grazing. I know almost everyone will tell you there is but in reality there isn't. Also, why the heavily processed meats? I think you would be better severed with real food. Sure, it is not as easy as running to jimmy johns but it is much, much healthier.

Dinner looks almost perfect. I would cook the seafood or chicken (especially if breast) in coconut oil to add some fat but other than that is looks really good.

How about fish oil or krill oil?

Like i said, great start and congrats on your progress! I look forward to watching your journey.

After a really hard ride (if i bike to work, the ride home i push myself as hard and fast as I can — its only a 40 min ride that way, and i build muscle which uses more calories during the day) is the only time I eat major carbs – so if I want spaghetti for the night, i work my ass off on the way home. . . and the key is that you have to eat it within 15 minutes of getting done with a workout… but during that time, your body is going to use the carbs completely different than it would otherwise.

The reason I love cycling… as a fat chick… is because if I go for a walk or run, i get tired fast and have to stop… on the bike I get tired… but i can coast for a few seconds to recover. I've found that wearing a heart rate monitor is VERY important. If I feel like i'm going to pass out, i can see that my heart it working to hard and I can train myself to slow down.

In school I could never run more than 1/2 mile because I was pushing myself to hard to early. I never learned how to pace myself because I couldn't understand how much harder my heart was working. I find the HR monitor also helps me gauge hydration (if its too high and your'e barely working your blood is too thick and you need water).

Buy a bike. Get a new seat. Go for short 20 min rides with occasional sprints and bursts of speed to train your heart to be more efficient. . .

I'm on a 1300 kcal diet b/c my doctor said that you should eat no more than 10 kcal for every pound you weigh. Well with that, no wonder half of america weighs 200 lbs. We're told to eat 2,000 calories! And duh i weighted nearly 230. Whats an extra 300 calories a day?!?

EAS makes a shake called advantage. I used that 2-3 times a day b/c I'm also required to get at least 70g protein EVERY DAY.

This diet is working WONDERS for me. . . the pill helps alot, but every 3 weeks i take a week off so i don't get used to it, and while the loss isn't as fast when i'm not taking, there is still loss [though i'm in a stalemate right now, its because i've gone back to soda/sigar. Stupid Caffeine [since aspartame blocks weight loss, i'll never drink it – i'd rather have real sugar than fake).

Well, thats what i have going… Good luck to you!

You might see some health gains in the short term on such a diet if what you were eating prior to then was even worse. But you will not get away with it forever.

I look at it this way–the primate order began as an insectivorous order of mammals. This is the answer to the question “if human beings are supposed to eat meat why don't we have claws and huge canines”–because we're supposed to eat bug meat and you don't have to have claws to kill a bug. But bugs are still meat. Which is why humans adapted so well to first scavenging lion kills, then developing tools and hunting our own.

And that is what carried us through the Ice Age when there was no vegetation worth speaking of, and what carried us through three million years of not knowing how to farm.

Everything we eat aside from bugs and critters is window dressing. It can benefit us, but we don't need it. And if we eat too much of the window dressing and not enough of the window, so to speak, eventually we pay for it in diminished health outcomes.

That said, there are so many variations on the species-appropriate human diet. The key question is whether you are meeting your requirements for both macronutrient (fat/carb/protein) ratios and micronutrient (vitamin/mineral) levels. If the answer is “no,” you need to change your diet. If the answer is “yes,” keep on truckin', obviously you're managing even if you're not eating like a stone age hominid.

But I can pretty much guarantee you that 100 percent of vegans and most vegetarians are not hitting those ratios and those amounts. With the possible exception of vegetarians who eat huge amounts of eggs. They just can't. No amount of wishing is going to change that, either.

I always did think it interesting that publications catering to vegans and vegetarians and Meatless Monday adherents and the like, also contain lots of ads for digestive upsets and allergies, and advocacy materials for kids with autism.

Just sayin'.