Day 10. Yum yum yum I found my Chocolate fix!!! :oP

Ok if you can remember a couple of posts back, I was moaning about the price of Atkins bars here in the UK and I wanted to find out other cheaper solutions, and I wanted more food ideas...to help me stay longer on the induction period. So again I went in search on YouTube and found these hilarious YouTubers; Jimmy & Christine Moore…. Now these Atkineers have been doing the low-carb lifestyle for quite a while and have made an amazing transformation. Therefore they have plenty of helpful wisdom, advice and tricks you can pick up…. Check them out!!!

Although from their videos only some of the foods can be bought in the United States i.e. Stallone Puddings & GoLive bars, it did however encourage me to return to my local health store... and am glad I did.

I searched through quite an extensive list of bars in the store but couldn’t find a low carb bar… there was plenty of protein with carb bars, but non without or little of :o( However I did stumble across Chocolate and Strawberry Whey Protein, so all was not lost….and I ended up buying the Chocolate Flavor tub (Soon to return for some Strawberry flavor :oP). Your not going to believe this, but just 1 scope is 2.4 carbohydrates with 0.3 as sugar. That seems amazing, but that has also got me thinking.

Which carbs do you count? Is the 2.4 carbohydrates the net carb or is it just the sugar content which is 0.3? So I think I will pose this question to Jimmy & Christine to find out. Hopefully they will answer. I also need them to clarify how to calculate a net carb ;o) I will post the results here if they kindly answer :oD

But still the good news is... I now have another desert added to my low-carb list ;o)

Onto the meals of the day:

Ok people here is Jimmy's reponse about how to calculate net carbs, njoy and don't forget to check out his video's and website, and thanks once again Jimmy :o)

"GREAT QUESTIONS, Jon, and I'm happy to help. Basically, net carbs are the number of carbs that count towards your total carbohydrate intake that will impact your blood sugar levels. You calculate this by taking the total carbohydrate and then subtract dietary fiber and sugar alcohols. YOU MUST COUNT ALL SUGAR GRAMS AS CARBS! So, if the total carbs is 16g and you have 8g fiber, 2g sugar, and 6g sugar alcohols (like maltitol, erythritol, sorbitol, etc.), then the NET carbs would be 2g (16 minus 8 for the fiber minus 6 for the sugar alcohols to give you 2g net carbs). Make sense? :D

Contact me anytime at livinlowcarbman AT charter . net with any other questions. THANKS for watching and KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK on your low-carb lifestyle. I'm proud of you."

Jimmy Moore
LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com