a fattening week

argh. i'm at my goal weight right now, but this week has been filled with fatty foods. would i gain weight? i mean, i'm eating the right amount of calories, but most of them are from fat (saturated, too). help!

if you're in the right range you won't gain weight, maybe water weight if your diet consisted of lots of processed foods that are high in sodium but that will go down. no worries.

As long as you have a deficit or as long as you don't go over your goal, then you will not gain weight. It technically doesn't matter whether your calories come from fat, protein, or carbs (or alcohol).

But to be truly healthy, you should have a well-balanced diet. I usually try for 40-30-30 (40% carbs, 30% protein, and 30% fat). Fat plays an important role in diet so eating too little can be a bad thing. Just try to balance your caloric intake - try eating a little less fat here and there.

lala - since superlovers is maintaining, she doesn't need to be at a deficit.

About fats, this is C&P from floggingsully's journal. Bottom line, fat doesn't make you fat.

I read a book not to long ago co-authored by Jeff Volek, who's a professor in the human performance lab at UConn which argued for the health benefits of higher fat diets.  A quick search for Dr. Volek's work on pubmed turned up a bunch of studies backing this up including this one which found greater improvements to cardiovascular health for a group that ate a diet with Carb/fat/protein ratio of ~12/59/28 than a group who ate a diet of 56/24/20 (closer to the AHA's recommendations).  There was also this one which found that a diet consisting of 65% fat lead to a decrease in LDL (bad cholesterol) of 9% (and a decrease in triglycerides of 38%) while HDL (good cholesterol) rose 12%.  And last but not lease, this one, which found people on a high fat diet (63%) lost more weight, and more fat than those on a lower fat diet (22%) even when the high-fat diet group ate significantly (~300) more calories than the low fat group.

woah. o_o;;; okay.. well it's just that i've been up and down the wagon (overweight, over-dieted, got amenorrhea, had to gain weight) and I'm finally at my goal weight. I don't wanna lose/gain anymore.

thanks for the help, guys!