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Low Vitamin A diets are too low in calories/ kilojoules?
Most of the low Vitamin A diets/ foods seem to also be very low in kilojoules.
I have been doing the diet for a few weeks and have been feeling fatigued/ low energy most of the time, my diet has mostly been beef/ chicken, rice, potatoes, banana, white bread, peanut butter, beans, almonds, peanuts, oats and brown sugar, when I added up an estimate of my kilojoules it seemed less than 3000kj estimate average per day, when the recommended intake is around 9000 per day..
Are people doing low VA getting insufficient calories/ kilojoules? My diet Seems similiar to most on here, what are you guys doing to keep your daily intake up? I saw that olive oil is quite high, would adding olive oil to most meals help?
Alex.
I eat the same, and get about 2700calories, which is maintaining my weight at 6'2 and 185lbs. Posted the input from chronometer.com. Gives me about 100IU vitamin A daily from the banana.
Edit: Only things I see as low are calcium and potassium, but I am a slow oxidizer, so probably loaded with calcium, and I take extra KCl every day to get up to the 4 gram RDA. Also 4 grams of sodium ascorbate(vit C) as well.
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Apart from cutting dairy and animal fats, most of the foods that are high in vit A are pretty low in calories.
Using oil certainly helps bring the calories up if you don't have the appetite to eat enough of other foods.
I also struggle with getting enough calories without relying on packaged food, but that was also the case before low A.
I don't know in what world things like rice or potatoes or peanuts or sugar could be considered low calorie foods. Eat more. Adding fats is an easy way to increase calories, there is 9 calories in 1 gram of fat, and only 4 calories in 1 gram of carbohydrate/protein.
Calories are the main reason I have not gone low in vitamin A. I get about 1,500 IU's on a "bad day". I always end up eating some ice cream to get to the minimum level of calories I need. I guess for me it's a slow transition to find foods I can eat enough of.
Tahini dressings on rice and meat is a great way to get some extra fat that tastes delish!!! Also coconut milk if it sets well with you.
Thanks guys, tahini and coconut milk suggestions sound great. The first reply examole shows only 3000 kilojoules? But I read that we need about 9000 on average per day.
Quote from Guest on February 22, 2019, 3:03 pmThanks guys, tahini and coconut milk suggestions sound great. The first reply examole shows only 3000 kilojoules? But I read that we need about 9000 on average per day.
1 calorie is about 4 joule
I use beef tallow instead of butter on bread. I realize many here exclude animal fats. It is very low A and very high calorie.
Fat is a difficult one. Many experience them differently. You have to find one that work for you.