Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

[Sweet Meats]

Two Week Meal Plan

I was going over the different meals that the plan offers. I notice that there is a carb count at the bottom, that depending on what you choose, the carb count raises or lowers. I then noticed that some of the meals were more than one serving. I then try to manually count the carb, but I was not getting the same carb count as what was stated for that day.


Question:

Why are these meals offering more than one serving and what am I doing wrong when counting the carbs?

For example:

Meal 1 / Alt option 1 / 18.4 Net Carbs:

Cheese Baked Eggs -
Net Carbs: 2.4 grams
Total Carbs: 2.4 grams
Makes: 1 servings

Cucumber Salad -
Net Carbs: 2 grams
Total Carbs: 3 grams
Makes: 4 servings

Thai Coconut Soup -
Net Carbs: 6 grams
Total Carbs: 7 grams
Makes: 6 (generous 1-cup) servings

Sugar Free Jello Cup -
No info, but the nutrition list
states 0 carbs

Garlic Lime Bluefish with
Tomato Salad -
Net Carbs: 4 grams
Total Carbs: 6 grams
Makes: 4 servings


When I count just the net carbs, I get: 14.4

When I count the net carbs x servings, I get: 62.4

What am I doing wrong, and why, if this is a daily meal, would the recipe offer more than one serving and not just one?

SM

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

Alas, it's not a good idea to follow the two-week plan at the Atkins.com site. It very often doesn't follow the rules of Induction.

A great example is the Thai Coconut Soup ... coconut milk isn't an allowed Induction food.

The meal planner is a "mix and match" ... so you have to work at it to get it to 20 net carbs with most coming from vegetables.

Fish sauce generally has sugar in it, too.

>>some of the meals were more than one serving.>>

Most "recipes" are based on serving 4. The recipes do list carbs per serving though.

>>I then try to manually count the carb, but I was not getting the same carb count as what was stated for that day.>>

You would have to show us exactly how you counted your carbs ...

Again ... using this might be good for ideas, but you need to be very careful with what's allowed on Induction.

[Sweet Meats]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

Geeez... if you can't count on a legit Atkins site then what can you trust!?

Well with the example I listed in post 1, it said that the total of the daily meals equaled 18.4n/c. Now if you count each n/c per serving then the total sum of n/c equal to 14.4n/c NOT the advertised 18.4. Now if you take the total n/c for all servings for each meal for that day then it will total 62.4n/c.

So how did they come to the total sum of 18.4n/c?

SM

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

SM,

Again,

I would have to see how you counted each individual item to see how you arrived at your total.

Then I might be able to figure it out.

[FwL]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

It looks like that interface is merely adding up the net carb total for each recipe. It is not subtracting for serving amount. I couldn't say if they really expect you to eat the whole recipe or not.

I'd bet the 4 extra grams of carbs are being calculated in for the artificial sweetener in the jello cup.

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

No, they don't expect you to eat the WHOLE recipe!

That's why there's carb counts for ONE serving.

[sallyseachange]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

Geeez... if you can't count on a legit Atkins site then what can you trust!?

Better to trust the ADBB. Here we go by the 2002 edition of DANDR (Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution) which was the last book written in its entirety by Dr A before his death and hasn't had other people messing around with it.

Atkins Nutritionals is a business, and like most businesses, they are looking more to make a profit than to help people with weight issues. Hence, lots of things get pushed that, according to Dr A's plan, shouldn't be pushed.

Always check the ingredients of anything... even those "Atkins" foods (bars, shakes etc.) that claim to be induction friendly. If the ingredients aren't on the induction foods list, then don't eat them.

[FwL]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

No, they don't expect you to eat the WHOLE recipe!

That's why there's carb counts for ONE serving.

Duh.... you're right. It says "per serving" right on the recipe breakdown. I forgot how to read for a minute

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

>>I forgot how to read for a minute>>

When you get bifocals, you can blame them!

<I do it all the time!>

[Sweet Meats]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

SM,

Again,

I would have to see how you counted each individual item to see how you arrived at your total.

Then I might be able to figure it out.

I told you how I am counting them.


OK here is the meal I got right off of the Atkins site. Now we have established that it is not good to follow this even thought the site says that it is a meal option for the induction faze.

Now the site is saying that this meal equals 18.4n/c, but as I said, I got 14.4 by counting the n/c for each ONE serving and then got 62.4n/c for counting the n/c for ALL servings. The only one that does not offer nutrition facts is the Jello, however, I pulled up the Surger Free Jello and got them: 0n/c.

Here is the daily menu I got from the AD site and use in post one as the example:

Meal 1 / Alt option 1 / 18.4 Net Carbs:

Cheese Baked Eggs -
Net Carbs: 2.4 grams
Total Carbs: 2.4 grams
Makes: 1 servings

Cucumber Salad -
Net Carbs: 2 grams
Total Carbs: 3 grams
Makes: 4 servings

Thai Coconut Soup -
Net Carbs: 6 grams
Total Carbs: 7 grams
Makes: 6 (generous 1-cup) servings

Sugar Free Jello Cup -
No info, but the nutrition list
states 0 carbs

Garlic Lime Bluefish with
Tomato Salad -
Net Carbs: 4 grams
Total Carbs: 6 grams
Makes: 4 servings


Now when you count the single serving n/c:

Cheese Baked Eggs - 2.4
Cucumber Salad - 2
Thai Coconut Soup - 6
Sugar Free Jello Cup - 0
Garlic Lime Bluefish with
Tomato Salad - 4
=========================

Total: single serving n/c - 14.4


NOW


The n/c on for all servings:

Cheese Baked Eggs - 1 servings x 2.4 = 2.4
Cucumber Salad - 4 servings x 2 = 8
Thai Coconut Soup - 6 servings x 6 = 36
Sugar Free Jello Cup - 1 servings x 0 = 0
Garlic Lime Bluefish with
Tomato Salad - 4 servings x 4 = 16
======================================

Total: all serving n/c - 62.4




I hope you understand what I am talking about now because I don't know any other way to explain it, lol. I just want to know how they got 18.4n/c, that's all


SM

[Sweet Meats]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

It looks like that interface is merely adding up the net carb total for each recipe. It is not subtracting for serving amount. I couldn't say if they really expect you to eat the whole recipe or not.

I'd bet the 4 extra grams of carbs are being calculated in for the artificial sweetener in the jello cup.

Since the AD site did not give the nutrition value, I googled it and it was 0n/c.


SM

[Sweet Meats]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

No, they don't expect you to eat the WHOLE recipe!

That's why there's carb counts for ONE serving.

That was my other question, why would they have you make a meal that was more than 1 serving? That is unless they expect you to eat it the next day(s).


SM

[Sweet Meats]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

Better to trust the ADBB. Here we go by the 2002 edition of DANDR (Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution) which was the last book written in its entirety by Dr A before his death and hasn't had other people messing around with it.

Atkins Nutritionals is a business, and like most businesses, they are looking more to make a profit than to help people with weight issues. Hence, lots of things get pushed that, according to Dr A's plan, shouldn't be pushed.

Always check the ingredients of anything... even those "Atkins" foods (bars, shakes etc.) that claim to be induction friendly. If the ingredients aren't on the induction foods list, then don't eat them.

My trust is yours... is the word and the word is



SM

[Georgiana]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

Whoever wrote the little code that calculates carbs made a mistake and instead of counting net carbs, the program counts total carbs. This is why it says 18.4 instead of 14.4.

[Georgiana]

Re: Have problem understanding the Atkins 2 week meal plan...

That was my other question, why would they have you make a meal that was more than 1 serving? That is unless they expect you to eat it the next day(s).

Eat it the next day. Or eat it with someone else. Or sometimes a recipe asks for an egg to make 4 servings... and they can't really tell you to use 1/4 of an egg.