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[quote=Anonymous]I have had a hard time losing weight so I went to a nutritionist. She actually sets up shop in my doctor's office and they refer patients to her. I have been counting calories but have only lost 7lbs in three months. She told me calories don't matter. She said it is carbs and fat - which I agree with, but she said this:

Meals should have less than 45g of carbs and snacks should have less than 15g of carbs. Okay, easy enough.

However, it was the fat that got me. She said in order to lose weight, I had to limit my fat grams to 15 per day, but you only count things that are over five grams. For example, if a piece of light cheese was 3 grams of fat, you don't count it, but if a full fat piece of cheese is 7 grams, you count all 7. For the remainder of the day, you have 8 fat g left. (and this it total fat, not saturated)

So an egg has 5g of fat, so I would have one for breakfast and then that is a third of the fat I am allowed to have the rest of the day. When I asked her about olive oil for my salad (I only use a homemade balsamic dressing) she told me to buy fat-free processed salad dressing. Does it make sense to buy processed over natural ingredients?

She gave me a food chart. It was full of fat-free dairy products (cottage cheese - which I hate, yogurt, cheese), turkey breast, fish, fruits and vegetables. No meat, no nuts, no oils, etc.

FOr me, this is completely unsustainable. I could do it for maybe a month, but then I woudl go bonkers. Too much to cut out. Is this really the ONLY way to lose weight?

And again, I should be choosing fat-free processed ingredients over natural? Seems bizarre to me.

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