My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

[Sigrino]

Hi guys! I am on Induction, and just started to use fit day

my log: http://www.fitday.com/fitness/FoodLo..._a_User=shvets

It seems the fitday has some problems so i will list the foods:

Today

Breakfast: 0.2 cup spinach cooked; 50g bacon; 2 medium eggs; 60g chedar cheese; .5 cup mushrooms.

I plan to have for diner: 100g bacon, 1 cup bell pepers cooked.




Each meal is 10 net carbs.
This is the food I plan to eat today, which is roughly 20 carbs, but this is 2 meals only. And it is adviced to have 3.

Could you please advise me a solution. I am a student and am not big on cooking, and can't spend too much on food! That is why I don't eat the 'hard to cook' meat that often. I currently live in UK.


What are your suggestions? Maybe you could advice on some low carb foods, or some easy to cook, low carb recipies that don't have too much ingridients.

[Georgiana]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Welcome to ADBB!

You need to make your FitDay profile public first, if you want us to take a look at your menu. It's explained here how to do it:

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...746-post8.html

[Georgiana]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Elizellen posted this in your other thread, which was deleted:

Found the correct link to your fitday account
http://fitday.com/fitness/PublicJour...l?Owner=shvets

[Elizellen]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

I am sure I posted a long message about your fitday entries which disappeared Must have clicked 'post' just as it was being deleted!!

Anyway here goes again.
I did notice you are using some of fitday's 'cooked' options. This can cause problems when lookign at nutrition as they assume that you are cooking dishes to their menu - not neccessarily yours!

So if you chose 'mushrooms, cooked' it assumes you are cooking them with margarine, where you might be boiling them in water, adding cream or frying them in butter.

So for all veggies that you are cooking yourself it is better to add them as 'raw' then add any other ingredients seperately.

When eating out unless you know exactly what is in any dish you will probly be more accurate to use their entries.

I often eat omelettes at a local cafe and know they add milk so am happy to use fitday's 'omelet' entry as I know from the old edition of fitday that they add milk and margarine to that entry, so it will be failrly accurate for that omelette.

When I cook an omelette at home I used 'eggs, whole, raw' and however much of the butter I buy which I have ste up as a custom entry so I know the numbers will be right.

[not2late]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Hi guys! I am on Induction, and just started to use fit day

my log: http://www.fitday.com/fitness/FoodLo..._a_User=shvets

It seems the fitday has some problems so i will list the foods:

Today

Breakfast: 0.2 cup spinach cooked; 50g bacon; 2 medium eggs; 60g chedar cheese; .5 cup mushrooms.

I plan to have for diner: 100g bacon, 1 cup bell pepers cooked.




Each meal is 10 net carbs.
This is the food I plan to eat today, which is roughly 20 carbs, but this is 2 meals only. And it is adviced to have 3.

Could you please advise me a solution. I am a student and am not big on cooking, and can't spend too much on food! That is why I don't eat the 'hard to cook' meat that often. I currently live in UK.


What are your suggestions? Maybe you could advice on some low carb foods, or some easy to cook, low carb recipies that don't have too much ingridients.

It's good that you are planning your meals in advance. If the meal above is what you plan to eat for the entire day, then you might want to divide it into 3 meals, rather than 2.

I know a bit about UK cookery, so is the bacon you are planning to eat 'streaky bacon' or 'back bacon'? With either of these bacons, you can cook it in advance, refrigerate and eat it later. The caveat is that streaky bacon is higher in fat than back bacon. (For the non-UK folks, back bacon is similar to "Canadian bacon") Also most bacons are cured and are relatively high in sodium. Sodium may cause water retention, which will give you a false reading on the scale.

There are other meats that can be cooked ahead of time and eaten cold or reheated, for example, roasts or chops. Or you can cooked foods like quiches. Quiche is great because you can make it a one-dish-meal: mix together cooked veg, cooked meat, cheese and eggs, bake until set, then hack off pieces for your meals. Similarly, soups/stewed dishes are good time-saving dishes too. Pot roast is easy: just toss a piece of meat into a pot, add a bit of water, salt, pepper, maybe some onion and garlic, maybe some herbs, and simmer until the meat is tender. And the leftover pot roast can be eaten the next day reheated or cold.

[Elizellen]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Maybe if you add your intended food to your fitday, using the 'raw' option for anything you have cooked yourself and adding whatever you used to cook it with you will get a different carb number? I am wondering where you got oyur 20 net carbs already for the food you listed in your post above.

[Elizellen]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Oh - I missed the 'UK' bit in your post, thanks for highlighting that, Megs

I noticed that fitday's entry for 'peppers, sweet, red, raw' 7 net carbs per cup raw. Their entry for 'cooked' has 6 net carbs.

So where have the extra 4 net carbs come from - the bacon? Have you looked at the nutrition on the packet to make a custom entry?

BTW UK labels do not list any fibre as being a carbohydrate at all, so on our labels 'total carbs' = 'net carbs' in USA so if you are adding it as a custom entry you will need to add the fibre 'back in' onto the carb number so Fitday can cope with the maths

There shouldn't be any fibre in bacon though!

[not2late]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

There shouldn't be any fibre in bacon though!

I should hope not!

[liv]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Link
shvets - free online diet and fitness journal

Looks like you are playing around with it - some of your entries say zero
You need to up fat and protein and lower veggies to three cups. It is a low carb diet.

[Sigrino]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Oh - I missed the 'UK' bit in your post, thanks for highlighting that, Megs

I noticed that fitday's entry for 'peppers, sweet, red, raw' 7 net carbs per cup raw. Their entry for 'cooked' has 6 net carbs.

So where have the extra 4 net carbs come from - the bacon? Have you looked at the nutrition on the packet to make a custom entry?

BTW UK labels do not list any fibre as being a carbohydrate at all, so on our labels 'total carbs' = 'net carbs' in USA so if you are adding it as a custom entry you will need to add the fibre 'back in' onto the carb number so Fitday can cope with the maths

There shouldn't be any fibre in bacon though!

Yeah may be i was too generous with the roughing up the carbs. But my point was that each meal I eat is aprox 10 net carbs, so it seems hard to get 3 meals.

Thank you for pointing out obout the fit day different counts raw/cooked.
This just might give me some extra carbs for the third meal LOLz !

[Sigrino]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Link
shvets - free online diet and fitness journal

Looks like you are playing around with it - some of your entries say zero
You need to up fat and protein and lower veggies to three cups. It is a low carb diet.

Yeah I am. Its how I use it. I input the food I usually eat, just change the amounts to see what I get per day. This is a good enough tool for me )

About the veg, I looked at this sites list and was surprised that pepers were 3 cups, when other veg contained spinach, brocoli 2.

I thought the later are considerd the 3 cup, as they are high in fiber thus less net carb. The pepers contain a lot of carbs (sweet) I would think they should be in the other veg list 2 cups.

[Elizellen]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

I am personally glad that peppers are in the 2-3 cup list rather than the one-cup list as I love them and they are a good choice to help us get 'most of our up to 20 net carbs' from our vegetables. If the 2-3 cup (salad vegetables) list only had lettuce it would only allow at most 2 net carbs for 3 cups of them, meaning I could not eat eggs, cheese or cream

BTW The 2 lists in DANDR allow for 3 cups if you are only eating from that 'salad veg' list (which as you have noticed includes many other vegetables than lettuce) but you can drop one of those 3 cups and eat one cup from the 'other vegetable' list if you prefer.

I always tried to get my 'one cup of other vegetables' in as well as my 2 cups from the 'salad list' on induction to get more nutrition out of my 3 cups-worth.

Every half year we run a vegetable challenge where people on induction aim to get 12+ net carbs from those 3 cups, which makes for interesting reading. There is a link to the latest one in my signature beneath my posts.

[atkinsgal08]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

Don't forget with Fitday, it's showing total carbs ... you have to look in the Calories Eaten Today window to subtract the fiber to get "net" carbs.

[Sigrino]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

It's good that you are planning your meals in advance. If the meal above is what you plan to eat for the entire day, then you might want to divide it into 3 meals, rather than 2.

I know a bit about UK cookery, so is the bacon you are planning to eat 'streaky bacon' or 'back bacon'? With either of these bacons, you can cook it in advance, refrigerate and eat it later. The caveat is that streaky bacon is higher in fat than back bacon. (For the non-UK folks, back bacon is similar to "Canadian bacon") Also most bacons are cured and are relatively high in sodium. Sodium may cause water retention, which will give you a false reading on the scale.

There are other meats that can be cooked ahead of time and eaten cold or reheated, for example, roasts or chops. Or you can cooked foods like quiches. Quiche is great because you can make it a one-dish-meal: mix together cooked veg, cooked meat, cheese and eggs, bake until set, then hack off pieces for your meals. Similarly, soups/stewed dishes are good time-saving dishes too. Pot roast is easy: just toss a piece of meat into a pot, add a bit of water, salt, pepper, maybe some onion and garlic, maybe some herbs, and simmer until the meat is tender. And the leftover pot roast can be eaten the next day reheated or cold.

I do refrigerate bacon, could you tell how long u can keep it in the frige? thnx

[brandywine1241]

Re: My meal is roughly 10 net Carbs! Does that mean I should eat 2 times a day?

What cooking devices do you have available? I know some students do not have access to a stove. Do you have a microwave? A refrigerator? If so, is it the small portable kind or a larger one?

Also, you could consider canned meats like tuna or chicken. Just read the labels and make sure there is no added sugar, corn syrup, starch, etc.