The USDA recommends 20 to 35% of your daily
calories come from fat. But to determine the number of grams of fat suitable
for your diet, you must discover your daily allowance of calories. Your daily
allowance of calories depends on your weight and activity of the ideal body.
Things you need
Scale or body fat caliper skinfold
Calculator
To determine the ideal weight
Use a ladder or use body fat measurement
procedure and skinfold calculator to determine your current body fat
percentage.
Calculate how many pounds of your current
weight is due to fat: * current weight body fat percentage current (decimal
equivalent) current = pounds fat
Calculate your lean mass weight: current
weight, fat books current weight = lean mass
Set your percentage of body fat ideal
target. Range of normal body fat for men: 10 to 20 percent. 100 normal body fat
ranges for women: 15 to 25 percent. 100
Determine your percentage of lean body mass
ideal target: 100-ideal body fat percentage = percentage of lean body mass
ideal
Lean mass weight / ideal lean mass
percentage (decimal equivalent) = ideal weight
Calculation of the allowance of calories
for ideal weight
Determine your level of activity does no
regular exercise 11 exercise two to three times per week 13 exercise four to
five times per week 15 exercise six to seven times per week 18
Multiply your ideal weight by the number
associated with your activity level.
The result is your ideal calorie estimate
daily allowance; Take note of it.
Calculation of the daily allowance of
fat grams
Multiply your daily calorie allowance (DCA)
par.2. The result indicates the minimum amount of fat calories, you need to get
every day. Divide your minimum amount of fat calories by 9 to determine your
minimum requirement gram of fat.
Multiply your par.35 DCA. The result
indicates the maximum amount of fat calories, you need to get every day. Divide
the maximum amount of fat calories by 9 to determine your requirement grams of
fat or less.
Multiply your par.07 DCA. The result
indicates the maximum amount of saturated fat calories, you need to get every
day. Divide your maximum amount of saturated fat calories by 9 to determine
your maximum contribution in grams of saturated fat.
Keep track of fat gram intake
Create a table with seven columns. Label
the columns: food, serving size listed grams of saturated fat, total fat grams,
and my number of servings, saturated fat and total fat intake.
Nutrition facts look for food around your room;
fill in the information for the first four columns of your table.
Determine how many servings of this food
will include your meal and save the number in my number of servings. Multiply
my servings per grams of saturated fat and recording the results under
saturated fat intake. Multiply my number of servings Total fat grams and record
the results under Total fat intake.
Keep a journal of course all day. Whenever
you eat a new food, repeat steps 2 and 3, then tally the numbers listed under
your saturated fat intake Total to make certain that the cumulative total is
your daily allowance of fat grams.
Tips & Warnings
Do not neglect to include information for
fat content of the seasoning ingredients you put in your food, such as salad
dressing or mayonnaise.


