Oh gosh, I would have no idea how to get my fat that LOW, haha! Mine is usually at least 60% of calories if not more. I basically just cook everything in butter or lard, never drain fat from the pan, dress all my veggies. If I feel like a pan of food is too low fat I'll just add a big spoonful of a flavor appropriate one or I'll make some veggies or tubers to go with and cover them in butter. I also thicken sauces with butter. I think I'm made out of butter at this point.

For 10 yrs was on an Ornish/Pritikin pescatarian diet, roughly 10% fat, 15-20% protein, 75% carbs.

Went very strict Paleo 6mos ago: no gluten or grains of any kind, no sugars, processed foods, legumes, dairy, eggs, nuts, seeds, nightshades, alcohol, caffeine, and fruit limited mostly to berries.

• 60-75% fat
• 15-25% protein
• 5-20% carb

fat comes from pastured meats, wild caught fish [mostly canned salmon, jack mack, sardines, anchovy] offal, coconut oil/milk/cream/butter, etc, red palm oil, olive oil, fish oil, cod liver oil, lots of avocado. I use so much coconut and red palm oil that I buy them in 5 gal tubs.

I'm sure on many days my saturated fat intake is over 50% of calories. Previously it was closer to 0-1%.

• June 2010: 6'0 185
• Sept 2010: 6'0 155 with no effort, hunger, etc

I'm averaging about 60-70g (about 50% of my intake) per day and am managing a fairly quick fat loss.

I used to average about 100g/day (about 70% of my intake) and had a decent fat loss, but not very quick.

For comparison I generally try to keep my carbs around 10-15% of my intake, but will occasionally indulge in some root vegetables and fruit - but not often.

I'm also tracking, because I was curious AND I wanted to see how tweaking things might affect the rate at which I've been losing fat. Like Deidre, I also use LoseIt (anyone else here? Let's be friends!)

I get my fat by using butter and bacon grease liberally, choose fatty meats (usually) - ground chuck, ground lamb, and I'm not shy about making a heavy cream-based sauce - dijon cream, hollendaise, etc (see here for my recipes). If I steam vegetables, I'll finish them off in a saute pan with butter and/or bacon grease.

Hope that helps!

I consume about 200-300 grams of fat almost daily.

it varies for me, but I get over 50% of my calories from fat. I'm not a very low carber, since I've concluded we should get about 30% of our calories from carbs, but I'm not fixated on the exact amount of carbs.

My biggest adjustment has been embracing the fat. I try to eat enough fat, and then let protein and carbs make up the balance. Protein usually takes care of itself, because my favorite sources of fat often have some great protein along for the ride. Now when I eat a steak, I don't trim away the fat like I used to. I eat the whole darn thing. Yum! When I make bacon, I don't carefully dry each piece on a paper towel. Now I eat them dripping with grease. And I cook my eggs in much of the leftover grease rather than draining it off.

But I still have to fight off that little voice that whispers that fat is bad. That comes from 20 years of conditioning. It's mostly gone, but I still catch myself starting to cut fat away sometimes.

I dunno...how much do you have???

I am also a tracker too. I use the LOSEIT app. I track because I am a little OCD and even though I am paleo, I haven't had the greatest results yet. I think that it is hormones, and I will continue to plug away. Love how I feel without grains and lots of carbs. My fat% varies between 45% and 60%. I use coconut oil, bacon grease, fatty meats, and a small amount of nuts and seeds. I love fat and don't fear it at all. My fear are the carbs, so I eat fat and protein liberally, with a lot of fat coming with the protein.

I have fat with both my meals, although I do not count calories. I workout regularly and I am very lean.

Here's a typical/example day:

Breakfast: 4 eggs scrambled with heavy cream and cooked in ghee or coconut oil, plus a copuple of pieces of pork sausage, bacon, or steak. I also have a few veggies (sometimes fresh as crudites and sometimes cooked). Once in a while, I will also have a little fruit (e.g., single slice of orange or apple, or a few berries).

Dinner: Ground beed (1/2 pound paddy) topped with bacon and pepperjack cheese, accompanied with a small veggie salad with olive oil & cheese. Once in a while I will also have a small bowl of frozen fruit with heavy cream.

I exercise 4 to 5 times per week, and the fat fuels my workouts.

• 4x/wk: 30 min. of weights + 10-to-20 minutes of cardio.

• 1 or 2x/wk: Interval training, swim or run (8-to-12 45 sec hard intervals).

I've been tracking on fitday. As an example, yesterday was:

~2700 calories 53% fat (22 sat%, 22% mono, 7% poly) Carbs 23% (yesterday was a strength training day and I'm doing the post workout sweet potato thing) Protein 22%

I get about 2600 to 3400 calories per day, at least 60% of calories from fat (if I subtract my wine!).

I never go below 60% of calories from fat and I don't try (but I have experimented with Fitday, just to see).

A typical daily diet:

Breakfast

I start with 3-5 strips of bacon, fried; I save the grease to cook 3 to 5 egg yolks; I fry 3-6 oz salmon (or scallops) in butter, coconut oil, or red palm oil OR use some of the bacon grease

2nd meal

Beef shank stew with maybe 0.75 pound beef shank and 0.75 pounds of some beef short ribs, chuck roast pieces or other tough cut of meat (whatever's on sale) slow cooked with wine and onions while I'm at work

Late night snack

Parmesan Reggiano pieces (3 oz)

Additional info: I tend to eat fruit only as a stopgap measure. If I'm traveling, it's a good, quick food that keeps well. Same with tinned sardines. I eat 2 meals daily but will occasionally get hungry late, especially because I play team sports and many games are night games.

Last time I was tracking, I was getting about 60-65% of calories from fat. Breakfasts are often similar to the ones listed here (bacon and eggs), or dinner leftovers. I also make mayo-based salads (homemade mayo) often. I drink heavy cream with coffee in the morning, and that lasts me until midday, then dinner around 6-8pm.

Not being shy about the ghee, butter, mayo, etc. makes a pretty big difference. I also eat a fair amount of avocados, cheese, non-lean ground beef, sour cream.. often all at once ;) Think fat for your desserts too -- (whipped) cream!

I've averaged approximately ~105 grams per day this week (only recently started tracking, using caloriecount.about.com), though it fluctuates with how much food I've eaten that day. It's about half of my daily calories. I'm new to paleo, so I'm struggling to get it much higher. My goal is to increase it to at least 60% of my calories or so, though. :)

I'm liberal with bacon, eggs, coconut (coconut butter, oil, etc) and I fry/drizzle my food in bacon grease whenever possible. I also don't shy away from the odd handful of nuts/seeds or avocado, and I indulge in dark chocolate whenever the fancy strikes me.

I love fat...

For me it's approximately ~200 grams per day: meat, salmon, bacon, butter, ghee, lard, tallow, coconut oil or high oleic sunflower oil, some pecans or macadamias.

That's 70% - 80% of my caloric intake - carbs are seldom more than 10 g per day...

70%! Yummy! Yummy! I just eat fatty cuts of meat, like chuck roast, and add butter to my green veggies until they glisten. I scramble eggs in coconut oil and every day I hve 1/2 an avocado. I fry my sweetbreads in tallow left over from the chuck. Bacon 1x a week.

I average 1842 cal per day, 100 g protein, 139 g fat, 60 g carbs. I'm losing 2.4 pounds a week. I'm currently 200 pounds, down from 212 in 5 weeks.

I feel fabulous. BP is down to normal & now un-medicated, skin is softer, joints no longer ache. I move faster than the "breadheads" that are 25 years old and I have tons of energy. I'm 59 and female.

Average day:

4 - 12 oz mugs of coffee with 2T heavy cream and stevia (8T heavy cream) Shake - 1/3 cup frozen organic blueberries or strawberries, or blackberries, 1 scoop whey factors, 3T flaxseed, 1t Ceylon cinnamon, 1T cocoa, stevia (process in vitamix 2 min) 1/3 pound of pastured pork sausage, 2 large pastured eggs fried in the sausage fat. Then I pour off and weight the leftover fat. Usually 7-9 grams. 1/2 pound of pastured beef (broiled or fried), 1 pound of fresh veggies, 1T Kerrygold butter

Today I consumed around 4 tablespoons of goose fat (pasture raised), along with around 3 tablespoons of coconut oil, a tablespoon of avocado oil and two tablespoons of olive oil all in amongst strictly paleo meals (avocado, grass fed beef steak, onions and sweet potato). Is this excessive?

my fat intake is different every day but it almost always includes 2-3 T bacon fat and 5-6 T coconut oil. i eat fatty meats and always leave the skin on. i'm doing low fiber right now so the added fat keeps me full.

fyi i am 5'4" and 91 lbs.

I try to have a mostly high-fat diet, as I've found fat is really satiating and nourishing. I cook with coconut oil and butter, eat plenty of egg yolks and also add olive oil and butter to a lot of food because it adds flavour and nutrients. I also am addicted to avocados, I eat one a day, they're so yummy.