Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

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Fitday does not seem take into account fiber when measuring carbs, and it can make a big difference in certain foods like jicama. One cup of jicama = 11 carbs- 6 fiber=5 carbs. But Fitday says it has 11 carbs, not 5

So after you enter fitday I guess you have to manually adjust the carbs?

[mitzimarie]

Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

Yes, you must count the carbs in spices. I use cinnamon everyday, and yes, it can add up.

About Fitday and fiber:

If you haven't gotten Fitday to count fiber for you, this is how you do it: On the left side of the page, is a place that you can click on to set a nutrition goal. Go there, and set a fiber goal... that is done by setting a minimum and maximum daily fiber amount. It doesn't matter which numbers you plug in... I have my minimum set as 1 and my maximum as 50... the numbers there aren't important. I just put them in, to get Fitday to count for me. After doing this, the fiber grams will show with the other totals for carbs, protein, fat. Just subtract the fiber grams from the carb grams, and you have your net carbs.

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Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

Thanks Mitzimarie,
I tried it, and the carbs show on a nutrition report, but not on my food log. Is that how it works?
Is there away to show it on the food log?

[mitzimarie]

Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

I tried it, and the carbs show on a nutrition report, but not on my food log. Is that how it works?
Is there away to show it on the food log?

Do you mean at the top of the page, where your foods are listed? No, your're right, it doesn't show there. I see it at the bottom of the page, where it lists the numbers for Calories, Fat, Carbs, Fiber, and Protein (the pie graph is near it).

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Great, Thanks, I got it.
Can you answer another Question. I think I may have unintentionally messed something up in my options. I was getting an email notice whenever someone responded to a message/thread I had posted to, and as of Saturday, it stopped. Did I uncheck soemthing by mistake? If so what specifically do I need to do to fix that?

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Nevermind about the emails, I figured it out, somehow they started going to my Spambox in my email. Don't know why, I was getting messages fine all week.

Thanks anyway.

[Georgiana]

Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

If you haven't gotten Fitday to count fiber for you, this is how you do it: On the left side of the page, is a place that you can click on to set a nutrition goal. Go there, and set a fiber goal... that is done by setting a minimum and maximum daily fiber amount. It doesn't matter which numbers you plug in... I have my minimum set as 1 and my maximum as 50... the numbers there aren't important. I just put them in, to get Fitday to count for me. After doing this, the fiber grams will show with the other totals for carbs, protein, fat. Just subtract the fiber grams from the carb grams, and you have your net carbs.

Actually, this was only required with the older versions of FitDay. Ever since I joined (in Jan 2008, I believe), FitDay automatically counts fiber grams and no extra settings are needed.

[mitzimarie]

Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

Actually, this was only required with the older versions of FitDay. Ever since I joined (in Jan 2008, I believe), FitDay automatically counts fiber grams and no extra settings are needed.

Hmm... dunno. I've had my Fitday account since 2007, so I'm not sure how it works now. But I have had to answer this quesiton a few times lately. Maybe it's because people are just starting to use their older Fitday accounts?

[Georgiana]

Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

Maybe it's because people are just starting to use their older Fitday accounts?

When FitDay updated their software, I'm sure it was updated for all accounts, not only for those created after the update was in place.

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Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

Back to my Jicama example. Both Nutritiondata.com and Fitday and www.carbohydrate-counter.org (from Jimmie 4 both show the carbs as 11, and 11.5 and 11.47 for 1 cup. The carb count from jimmie’s Nutrition page shows 11.4 carbs. It then shows 6.3 fiber and net carbs as 5.09. ( http://carbohydrate-counter.org/)
So it doesn't seem to me that Fitday subtracts the fiber to give the net carbs after I do the math.

I also checked this for a few other foods.

[Georgiana]

Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

Back to my Jicama example. Both Nutritiondata.com and Fitday and www.carbohydrate-counter.org (from Jimmie 4 both show the carbs as 11, and 11.5 and 11.47 for 1 cup. The carb count from jimmie’s Nutrition page shows 11.4 carbs. It then shows 6.3 fiber and net carbs as 5.09. ( http://carbohydrate-counter.org/)
So it doesn't seem to me that Fitday subtracts the fiber to give the net carbs after I do the math.

I also checked this for a few other foods.

FitDay will never subtract the fiber for you, no matter what you do to it. It just displays total carbs and dietary fiber. You are the one that has to do the math.

[JulieB]

Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

FitDay will never subtract the fiber for you, no matter what you do to it. It just displays total carbs and dietary fiber. You are the one that has to do the math.

I think this is the confusion around Mitzi answering the fibre questions about Fitday recently - people are asking 'is it possible to get fitday to show the fibre in the grid' and we are answering 'yes, to show fibre in fitday, do this' (which does nothing new, since the fibre was always showing in the summary below the grid, not in the detailed grid). I think this is just a mis-communication problem

[acudoc]

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I'm so confused. So which number do I use as my percentage of carbs for the day? If I just look at the pie chart on fitday I am getting 3-5% of carbs. But if I factor in the fiber and net carbs, then I am only getting about 2% of carbs. This is getting more confusing the more I learn. Which do I use?

[Georgiana]

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I'm so confused. So which number do I use as my percentage of carbs for the day? If I just look at the pie chart on fitday I am getting 3-5% of carbs. But if I factor in the fiber and net carbs, then I am only getting about 2% of carbs. This is getting more confusing the more I learn. Which do I use?

You use the percentages FitDay gives you, so 3-5%.

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Re: Cinnamon fitday carbs-fiber

Hi Georgiana, I must not be understanding something. I am more confused than before. You said yesterday that Fitday doesn't subtract the fiber, we have to do the math. So I understood that to mean we have to get the final carb count by getting the net carbs --- by subtracting the fiber from the carbs shown on Fitday.

But in the last post you said to use the carb total that Fitday shows. That would not be net carbs. Can you clarify so I am counting carbs properly.

Thanks sooo much.



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Originally Posted by Georgiana
FitDay will never subtract the fiber for you, no matter what you do to it. It just displays total carbs and dietary fiber. You are the one that has to do the math.