Re: Olive oil as source of fat

[Guest guest]

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> Hi

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> I have been trying out olive oil as a source of fat as I find it difficult to

eat enough butter and other fats with meals to meet my ratios without eating

butter or coconut oil by itself. I tried taking 10 tablespoons of olive oil a

day (divided between meals) for one whole week but started to break out in

cystic acne and so stopped. Is this much olive oil a good idea? I have been on

the diet for almost a year.

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+++Hi Josh,

Holey moley that's a lot of olive oil! You may have unbalanced your omega 3 to

omega 6 ratios big time, which will cause problems.

Remember, that " more is not better! " Are you sure you are calculating your

ratios correctly, and entering foods, oils, etc. in fitday.com to see if you are

getting enough? Remember that you do not translate gram ratios of anything to

the amount you intake.

Bee

[Guest guest]

Josh wrote:

>>...I find it difficult to eat enough butter and other fats with meals to meet

my ratios without eating butter or coconut oil by itself. <<

Hey Josh. I am getting Bee's recommended 5.5 Tbsp coconut oil/day in this way:

3.5 Tbsp melted in to Bee's egg drink (along w/1 Tbsp butter) and then i have 2

cups of bone broth, each having 1 Tbsp coconut oil. Then I heat up meats in

butter or drizzle melted butter on veggies...

[Guest guest]

Hi Bee, glad I asked, I'll not try that again! Thank you for the information.

Could you clarify what you mean by not translating gram ratios of anything to

the amount you intake - I've seen you mention that before. I try to hit my

ratios using fitday and don't try to do anything clever! I have been trying to

hit the upper end of my fat allowance as I would like to gain some weight, hence

trying out the olive oil (which I didn't realize was a bad idea).

Thanks

Josh

[Guest guest]

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> Hi Bee, glad I asked, I'll not try that again! Thank you for the information.

Could you clarify what you mean by not translating gram ratios of anything to

the amount you intake - I've seen you mention that before. I try to hit my

ratios using fitday and don't try to do anything clever! I have been trying to

hit the upper end of my fat allowance as I would like to gain some weight, hence

trying out the olive oil (which I didn't realize was a bad idea).

+++Hi Josh,

When I write about not translating grams ratios to amount of food to intake I'm

referring to using fitday to determine quantities like you are doing.

Bee