Oh no!!!!!

[wannabethintoo]

I just looked up the McDonald's Grilled Chicken bacon range salad on the net: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s04tm.html

I've been eating this salad for lunch for 3 of the 4 days that I've been on induction. I thought it was low in carbs but it's 11 g. The salad dressing itself is 9 g of carbs (as stated on the package it comes in) but I only use a third of it. Can I assume that the rest of the salad is 2 g of carbs? So if I only use a third of the dressing am I getting 5 g of carbs from eating this salad? What do you guys think of this logic. Also, is 5 g of carbs for one meal a lot?

The salad contains: mixed lettuces, 4 or 5 very small cherry tomatoes, a couple thin slices of carrots, bacon bits and cheese bits. And then the bacon ranch dressing. Oh and it also has a grilled chicken breast.

I need your opinions on weather or not I should continue eating this salad for lunch. What would you guys do? I really enjoy this salad but will give it up if it's too high in carbs.

Suzie
Starting day 5 of induction and things are going very well.

[spirittalker]

Get your own ranch dressing as McD's loads their dressings with sugar that is why it has so many carbs.

[wannabethintoo]

So do you think that 3 g of carbs for the dressing alone is too much?

[wannabethintoo]

So I'm starting day 5 of induction. Should I weight myself at the end of the first week or after the 2 weeks of induction? I took my measurements before I started as well. Do I take them again at 1 week or 2 weeks?

I've been restraining myself from getting on the scale. So far so good. I used to be one of those who weighed herself 3 times a day. It doesn't work.

[not2late]

Go to the McDonald's site and look up the salad. You can customize the foods so you can see what they nutritional info is

http://www.mcdonalds.com/usa/eat/nutrition_info.html

According to it , that salad has 9 net carbs, not including the dressing. the majority of the carbs seems to come from the chicken, which they inject with a sugar solution--per the ingredients.

http://app.mcdonalds.com/bagamcmeal?process=details

[wannabethintoo]

According to http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s04tm.html the entire salad has 11 g of carbs and I know the dressing has 9 g because it comes in a pouch that states the breakdown. Is that site wrong?

[earlychildhoodeducator]

yep, bring your own dressing. you can find some of the regular ceaser dressings have 0-1 carb per serving. Even ranch you can find for 1 carb per 2 TS if you look. I spent 15 minutes in the dressing section of the store reading every single label...Do that and you'll realize how different the carb counts can be for the same taste. For me? 3 carbs for dressing is too much when I only get 20. That could be a few extra cheese stix or some thing. FYI - I also remember hearing that fast food chains inject the chicken with a sugar based maranade to make it taste better. Hope that helps?

I looked at your link. I could be wrong but I want to say that carb count does not include dressing? that's usually extra. It looks like it has 3 fiber so I'd count the whole salad as 8 carbs plus the dressing.

[wannabethintoo]

Ok, I see that I'm going to have to give up this salad. Oh well. It was a nice try.

[not2late]

I would go more by the McDonald's site than by that other one.

[earlychildhoodeducator]

So I went to the Mc Donald's Corp. site. If you go to it, they have a food calculator. You have to add the salad, then add the dressing seperatly.

[Effie]

Best thing to do is stop eating fast food. Pre-Atkins, I used to eat fast food a lot. I used to justify it saying that it was the same as eating a burger or a salad that I'd make at home anyway. I guess it was too incredible for me to believe that they actually do add all that crap to the food. I think they actually "test" their food to see which combination of additives will make it more addictive.

If you haven't seen it already, rent "Super Size Me". I never thought a documentary would change my opinion of fast food, but it did, and I'm so thankful!

[Raegurli]

The best dressing is Newman's Own Creamy Ceasar. I don't think there is a problem eating the salad as a back up plan, but try to plan your own meals. It is really tuff at first but it only takes 30 days to manifest a habit! Good luck

[wannabethintoo]

I just weighed myself. I couldn't resist. It was killing me not knowing. I'm down 9 lbs!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it's mostly water loss at this stage but I'm still pretty happy.

[earlychildhoodeducator]

:joy :clapping

[apollo]

id give up the fast food restaurants if i were you

too many fillers and "Secret" ingedients

its the formula for dieting disaster