We don’t find it necessary to measure grams of fat or protein. If you come from a way of eating that is focused on exact ratios, you will find this liberating!
Our emphasis is on eating meat. We don’t eat protein or fat – we just eat meat. 🙂
We like to keep it simple. Eat meat when you are hungry, and stop eating when you are no longer hungry. Choose meat that you enjoy, and don’t fret about the ratios.
There is no need to either keep your protein low or to add extra fat to your meals. Most meat is fatty enough!
Fat is good for you, but don’t take this to an extreme and pour fat all over your meals. (Yes, this happens!) If your diet is exclusively white meat chicken with no skin, lean beef, or white fish, you will find yourself hungry very quickly. Consider adding some fattier meats, like dark meat chicken with the (yummy!) skin, fattier fish like mackerel and salmon, and beef cuts like chuck or ribs, or ground beef that is marked 80/20 or even 73/27.
We realize that people in other countries may not have access to the same fatty cuts of beef that we have in the US. In these cases, you have to do the best you can. Look for lamb or duck, if you can; these are fatty and sometimes comparable in price to leaner cuts of beef.
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