Hello all,
I've been heading towards a macrobiotic diet for about two years of gradual transitioning and rather a lot of bumps along the way. My main question is about my super-fast metabolism. I have thus far not been able to have a completely macro foods day (unless I had a flu and couldn't eat much at all) because I just get too darn hungry. I can't figure out how to get approximately 100% of the US daily value of fat (2000 calorie) from strictly macro sources and without the US daily value of fat, I can just eat all day long and never stop being hungry. There's a limit to the amount of nuts, seeds, beans, fish, and fried food that I can eat in a day, that limit seems to be about half of the fat I need. So I end up eating a little cheese, or chicken, or egg, or nut butter to flesh out my diet, and I'm not so happy about that.
I should note that I have very little appetite when it comes to non-macro food. I strongly dislike almost all extreme food and didn't have much appetite for any food for years until I discovered macro, so I know there's probably somewhat of a catch-up effect. In other words, I'm extra-hungry because I've been under-nourished.
So my main questions are: How much fat are people getting per day, in terms of grams? And what sources make up a typical macro fat-gram day?
Also, I am pretty sure that my basic diet is neither too yin or yang but is centered, as I have been practicing Taoist martial arts for five years and a recipient of acupuncture for five years before that, so I'm quite sure I can feel yin and yang quite clearly in my body, and in everybody else's body, for that matter.
Also, I have been tested for parasite infection, and for thyroid problems about a million times, and everything is normal, so I don't think there's any other reason for the metabolism being so fast.
