Easter is coming!!

[Georgiana]

Re: Easter is coming!!

if the chocolate egg has 9 grams of total carbs, >1 grams of diatary fiber, and 8 grams of sugar, the math would be 9g-(whatever >1g is, say .5). So that would make it like 7.5g of carbs with 8 of those grams be sugar.

Your math is off. If the egg has 9 grams of total carbohydrate and less than 1 comes from dietary fiber, it means the product has more than 8 net carbs.

It's impossible to have "7.5g of carbs with 8 of those grams be sugar"... because 7.5 is less than 8... so you don't have 8 grams to start with.

It should also be <1 gram of dietary fiber... "<" is less... ">" is more.

I was just trying to understand

So you don't understand why eating a chocolate egg is not okay?

[nrgiles07]

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Oh, sorry but I never really anything with sugar in it. I look at the labels and i subtract the total carbs from the diatary fiber and thats how much carbs im really eating, right? (total carbs-fiber = net carbs) Yes, I understand that, I meant how the sugar = net carbs. But like I said i never really had to worry about this so I was just curious...

[Georgiana]

Re: Easter is coming!!

I never really anything with sugar in it.

Just as a note here... what you should try to avoid is added sugar. Naturally occurring sugar, such as that find in tomatoes or cheese, is fine.

I look at the labels and i subtract the total carbs from the diatary fiber and thats how much carbs im really eating, right?

Yep. That's the correct way to calculate net carbs.

[Elizellen]

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The confusing thing about 'sugar' on the label is that it could appear in 2 different places
1 Nutrition label - as part of the carbohydrates and could be the natural sugars that all plant materials contain, like tomatoes etc.
2. Ingredients list - as added sugar.

If sugar is listed as an actual ingredient (or any of its many aliases) then the food is not suitable really for any phase of Atkins

[IrishIrish]

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If I had gotten morbidly obese from eating a single piece of chocolate, a single piece of cake, a single piece of pie, a single donut or a single slice of pizza, or drinking a single Margarita or a single glass of beer or a single potato chip than I might indulge. But the truth of the matter is that there are a number of foods that trigger cravings and I've never stopped at a single one of any of them. One bite and there is a giant slippery slope right there ready to send me on the ride of my life. So, for me, it is easier not even to entertain the thought. I like being healthy more than I want to eat junk or junk substitutes. Pass a deviled egg, please!

[Carne!]

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no kiddos around and not religious....so I think i'll probably go to the beach and maybe the gym