Carbquick....when to add???

[Lisa M]

So, I'm crusing through recipes with lots and lots of mentioning of Carbquick. Found a website that tells what it is HERE. I'm reading more up on it since I've used almond flour before on the nut "rung" of OWL...but never have ventured into Carbquick because of the wheat ingredients, and never bothered to ask before.

Any suggestions as to WHEN to add this type of food back into our low carb way of eating? I'm speaking of "rungs" here on the OWL. I'm not in a hurry to get there....I'm back down and the bottom rungs myself, but I would like to know when the time is right for this.

Thanks!

[Barbde]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

Lisa, with the wheat, it'd be the grains rung.

[Lisa M]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

Thanks, Barb.

That was my thinking, but I just wanted to make absolutly positively without a doubt Carbquick is not in the lower rungs (1-5)

[2big4mysize]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

yep with their wheat not soy formulas it is a rung 9 food.

[Lisa M]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

Thanks, 2Big...

there's always a learning process, no matter what stage one is with this woe. (okay, so, I'm constantly learning )

[2big4mysize]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

remember too not all low carb recipe sites are Atkins low carb or even Atkins DANDR 2002 low carb.

carbquik is a low carb knock off of Bisquik and you can make your own for a lower rung if you use a different protein source as the flour. Naja has several recipes in the low carb cooking school topic.

[scott123]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

Wait a sec... Atkin's Nutritionals allows Atkins Bake Mix, a similar animal (wheat protein and digestion resistant starch) on induction. Now, we are all familiar with the warped, money making perspective of Atkin's Nutritionals, which would lead one to say that Atkins bake mix is probably a very bad idea for induction, but the grain rung?!? I see whole wheat flour as the grain rung, not a low carb bake mix. I think it would be best to include it after nuts and berries, and it's definitely a good idea to introduce it on it's own to see if it's stalling you... but the grain rung is way too late in the game, imo.

As much as I question the veracity of their claims, I feel the same way about dreamfields. The grain rung is for whole wheat pasta, not low carb pasta. If someone can introduce dreamfields early on and still lose... all power to them.

Definitely not induction. Not early OWL, but middle OWL, sure, why not?

[Lisa M]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

Thanks for you insight, Scott.

It's a learning process all the way around with when to add what back in depending on how the body loses weight, or not.

I've heard a little about dreamfields as well. But when I started obsessing, and reading, lables I tend to stay away from things now more then ever that have "wheat whateever" (grain rung) in the ingredients because of the common allergic reaction of wheat...basically a stall, and because I don't know a whole lot about the scienfic mechanics of wheat protein sepeartion..yet. I will be reading more about both low carb mixes and dreamfield pastas for future references.

There's still the question of how eating these things can help or stop the weight loss when there's still a substantial amount of weight to lose.

Again, it's a great experience and learning process while trying not to be afraid of digging deeper into what works to help the body lose weight, and keep it off.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

Lisa some folk have higher net carb tolerances then others. Some folk never get above 20 others stall out at 40 while some of us can go all the way to 100.

Dr Atkins put stuff on the rungs in the order he did for scientific reasons based on his 40+ yrs of seeing folk eating his program and what gave them trouble. In the premaintnenance chapters he gets into talking about carb problem foods like pasta and other higher rung stuff. He flat out says if this food was a problem in your high carb days DO NOT go there now either, avoid pasta if pasta was a trouble food for you. So for those folk who bread was an issue for them they need to avoid even low carb breads. Dr Atkins talks about WASA flat bread ( a very crisp cracker) he finally found to be something he could use. There he was with the resourses of Atkins foods and yet he used WASA bread.

if you have a wheat allergy do not use any wheat product as allergies are to proteins in the wheat and removing the carbs will not help you it can actually make your allergy worse as more of the alleric trigger protein will be in each serving od low carb wheat stuff then in regular wheat product.

[Lisa M]

Re: Carbquick....when to add???

That's basically why I'm researching on how my body reacts to wheat and why I asked about carbquick...which made me think about other types of low carb grains.

I, personally, don't plan on adding anything that resembles wheat in the ingredients to test try how my body reacts until much later on in the weight loss process to see if wheat is something that my body cannot handle. I know I'm a carb addict....ugh...and have to keep reminding myself that too.

Thanks for all the input