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How to maintain weight without increasing carbs

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Regarding my dietary fat intake. Someone commented out of possiible concern.

On the face of it, it may appear that my dietary daily fat intake is way too low.

However, I only assess the saturated fats. So according to 'the' guidelines saturated fats should be kept below 30g a day, which is what I aim to achieve.

I am not sure that assessing all fats will be that helpful to me in planning my daily food.

And I avoid trans fats

So for yesterday total day fats came to 59g and total saturated fats to 9.7g

All acceptable amounts.

No worries
 
I pondered further about 'fats' in the diet, confident that looking at saturated fats only in my analysis was sufficient.

However, doing more research it turns out that my view was wrong in that it is important to have a healthy amount of fat in the diet and by not doing the analysis I had no idea if I was eating enough of the stuff or not.

I picked a days meals at random and manually calculated things. The result was fine.

But it still bothered me.

So...

I just spent the whole of yesterday and up until mid day today implementing 'All Fats' into the App along side the saturated fats.

No mean feat. It meant that many sheets, forms and modules of code had to be updated, every database too.

I am glad that I did because analysing todays meals revealed that todays overall fat intake was way way down.

I adjusted my diet for today so that the fats and all the other parameters are nicely in range.

I have to now go through every single day, every single meal, every single item to 'repair' the meal database. I will write a bit of code to do that.

Keeps me occupied if nothing else.

All in all the person who mentioned about fat intake here was spot on and I thank you for raising my awareness.
 
Is it your own app? Do you write it in android, or swift, or something else??
 
Hi, its just excel vba

But 13.5 Mb of the thing!!! (That's quite large for an Excel app, although I have seen much larger ones)

The thing is with Excel VBA is is different across different versions so what will work with one version will not work with another. Of course you can test which version you are using and adapt accordingly.

Its a bit of a come down from coding in Ada which was my main work for many years. Before that, Assembler, before that machine code, before that just switches on a PDP8.

All great fun and quite challenging for my little brain.
 
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Gwynn said:
Hi, its just excel vba

But 13.5 Mb of the thing!!! (That's quite large for an Excel app, although I have seen much larger ones)

The thing is with Excel VBA is is different across different versions so what will work with one version will not work with another. Of course you can test which version you are using and adapt accordingly.

Its a bit of a come down from coding in Ada which was my main work for many years. Before that, Assembler, before that machine code, before that just switches on a PDP8.

All great fun and quite challenging for my little brain.
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That sounds like it's been interesting
 
Gwynn said:
Hi, its just excel vba

But 13.5 Mb of the thing!!! (That's quite large for an Excel app, although I have seen much larger ones)

The thing is with Excel VBA is is different across different versions so what will work with one version will not work with another. Of course you can test which version you are using and adapt accordingly.

Its a bit of a come down from coding in Ada which was my main work for many years. Before that, Assembler, before that machine code, before that just switches on a PDP8.

All great fun and quite challenging for my little brain.
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Oooooh.
You are showing your age there 🙂
I started off by programming Excel using their very old MACRO language to make something I was doing at work considerably easier. My file was so big that it took 45 minutes to load. That persuaded my boss to get a new PC and with it came Visual Basic behind the Excel interface. Can't even remember what version of Excel that was. 3.0 maybe?
Then I moved to something more civilised in C, onto to embedded stuff and stayed there. I did some debugging down to assembler level occasionally but didn't write anything in it.
I always look back with fondness at that Excel period though.
 
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