Not exact matches
If you have trouble consuming your prescribed
daily intake, protein shakes come quite in handy, since they are perfect as additions to your meal or using them as snacks to get to your
desired protein
intake goal.
That means you need to keep your
daily calorie
intake down to a level that will yield the
desired weight that you are looking to maintain.
This diet recommends you decrease your
daily carb
intake to less than 20 grams a day during the initial weeks, but allows you to reintroduce small amounts of carbohydrates as you get closer to your
desired weight, according to your individual tolerance.
Another way to calculate your
daily protein needs is to multiply your total calorie
intake for the day by the
desired percentage of calories from protein.
This calculator will help you determine a
daily caloric
intake for your
desired goal.
Note that in his most recent book The End of Heart Disease and elsewhere, Dr. Fuhrman warns against the possible long term adverse neurological consequences of very low fat diets (and specifically compares his recommendatons to Ornish and Esselstyn), and recommends a
daily fat
intake as percentage of total calories in the range of 15 - 30 %, depending on one's
desired weight.
Other than those supplements, the only other things I use are a
daily multivitamin (which I use year - round) and fish - oil caplets on my high carb days in order to still get in my
desired intake of omega - 3 fatty acids while eating low fat during those days.