3 cups veggies?

[cando21]

does anyone really measure your salad??
2 cups loosely packed? do you know the oz that would be, i love to use my food scale.
i have been having salads and veggies all day, but not losing. Is it possible to have too much lettuce, and veggies ok'd on induction?
thanks!!
i have been having small salad w/ protein for either lunch or dinner, than protein w/ veggie for other meal.

[mitzimarie]

Re: 3 cups veggies?

does anyone really measure your salad??
2 cups loosely packed? do you know the oz that would be, i love to use my food scale.

I love my food scale, too! Most people don't want to be bothered with using one, but I like it. Here is a fantastic spreadsheet that lists foods, the weights per cup, and which rung they are on. Click on the link, then click on NUTRITIONAL SPREADSHEET. I have printed this list, and use it all of the time. http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...readsheet.html

i have been having salads and veggies all day, but not losing. Is it possible to have too much lettuce, and veggies ok'd on induction?

There are very specific rules for Induction. You can have no more than a total of 3 cups of veggies - all 3 cups can come from the "Salad" list, or you can have 2 cups from the "Salad" list and 1 cup from the "Other" list. They are listed on pages 125-126 in the book.

i have been having small salad w/ protein for either lunch or dinner, than protein w/ veggie for other meal.

Where's your fat?! Atkins is a high fat, moderate protein, low carb way of eating. Too much protein turns into glucose - don't want that!

Also - are your eating enough?

[cando21]

Re: 3 cups veggies?

holy cow mitzi, great pics!! good for you!


maybe i'm not having enough fat?
i make my eggs in butter, w/ cheese. also have bacon.
my veggies w/ my protein meal always get buttered.
fatty proteins also at some meals. burgers w/ cheese, corned beef,
pot roast, chicken wings, etc......
what do you think?
any suggestions of how else to incorporate fat?

[mitzimarie]

Re: 3 cups veggies?

Thank you very kindly.

Since you are having butter, cheese, and bacon, perhaps you are getting a good amount of fat... it's hard to tell without exact portion amounts. Have you ever tried using Fitday to track your percentages? It can be a pain at first, until you get used to it. But once you get the hang of it, it can be a very helpful tool. Here is the site: www.fitday.com

The percentages to aim for in Induction are 65% fat, 30% protein, and 5% carbs. When you progress through the rungs and start adding more carbs to your eating, your fat percentage will go down as your carb percentage increases... protein is the constant at 30%. Keep in mind that these percentages are only a guideline... don't drive yourself crazy trying to be exactly perfect.

As for adding fat - it's really pretty easy. I find olive oil and salad dressing can really up the fat really quickly. I love brushing olive oil onto things like asparagus, and roasting it in the oven. Yummy!

[cando21]

Re: 3 cups veggies?

%)




i have used it a few times, but it is a pain. one day last week that i tracked my numbers were fat 68/carbs 4/protein 21/alcohol 7
not sure where they get an alcohol count........

[Mirya]

Re: 3 cups veggies?

%)




i have used it a few times, but it is a pain. one day last week that i tracked my numbers were fat 68/carbs 4/protein 21/alcohol 7
not sure where they get an alcohol count........

i agree. I HATE, no despise, fitday.com lol. I think it is a little screwy but that is my personal opinion

[mitzimarie]

Re: 3 cups veggies?

At first, Fitday really frustrated me... so much so, that I have most of my foods entered as custom foods. Even a lot of veggies! When searching for specific foods on Fitday, I found it a pain to have to sort through so many possibilities to find something that should be simple. So if I can't find something easy, I find info that I do like somewhere else and enter is as a custom food. I've gotten a lot of my info from that Spreadsheet I just posted about, and some from www.calorieking.com, among others. I also sat down with my laptop in the kitchen and entered info from every jar, can, box, label, of anything that I ever use. Yep, a big pain in the butt to do that, but after it's done, it really makes Fitday easier to use. It literally only takes me minutes a day to enter my menu.

Another thing that makes Fitday easier - when there is a recipe for something that you use a lot, you can enter the whole recipe as a custom food. This what I do to enter a completed recipe into Fitday: go to a day that has no other food entered (you can go into the next day's log). Enter all of the ingredients, and write down the total number of calories, fat, carbs, fiber, and protein on paper. You can then delete those foods, so you can go back to having a clean slate for that day. Next, go into custom foods and create a new food using the information you wrote down. It really does save a lot of time for me to be able to just click on "MUP" now (a name for a pumpkin concoction that I eat a lot), instead of having to enter the pumpkin, cream cheese, ground cinnamon, ground allspice, and almonds each time that I had it for breakfast.

As I said - a pain at first; a breeze after you get your custom foods entered and practice a bit.

About the alcohol - do you use any custom foods? My totals for the day had alcohol in it one day, but I didn't consume any. After re-checking a custom food I had just entered, I found that I had accidentally entered the protein grams as alcohol. After editing the custom food, all was well.

Your percentages look great - especially if that alcohol is an error, and turns out to be protein, and not carbs.