Friday 22 February 2008

Day 3. My 1st Carb Craving :oS

Howdi folks, Jon the belly overloaded guy here :o) You may be wondering about my title today, well yes, I had my first and real craving. If you know me well enough, then you know I am a sucker for chocolate, I LOVE CHOCOLATE! and today for the first time, I was craving for it… but I will say, it wasn’t enough to make me buy some though ;o) So congratulations on my part for standing the line.

You maybe speculating how this came about… well because of one main reason; a dear wonderful close friend of mine decided it would be funny, by eating chocolate in front of me and tempting me with it. Don’t worry though I made sure to get the last laugh with a nice but true saying “A moment on the lips, a life time on the hips!” muhahah!

So what lovely food did I pack into my satisfied belly today, you may be asking??, well here it is:

I wanted to mention a few things about the way I calculate my food today. You may or may not have wondered how I have done this, but here comes the small lecture :o) So make sure your sitting comfortably, pens at the ready and here we go…

Well if your already clued into the Atkins diet, then you should know during the Induction Period you can only eat 20g of net carbs daily. That’s all fine and dandy, but for some this is a puzzle in finding out what foods and even drinks contain what?!?!? And so one might question, where does one find out such nutritional information. Well let me tell you…. a couple of ways are:

For a nice online net carb calculator check this out: http://www.atkins.com/carb-counter Its free, and the greatness of it is, you can reference a variety of food & drinks, to help you calculate more precisely how many net carbs you have consumed a day, plus it also has other nutritional information tagged to it such as: fat, carbohydrate, protein values etc.

Notice you can also download the entire list in .pdf format, so for people without a constant internet connection (like myself) it makes life a little easier :o)

Or alternatively if your not computer minded, you could go out and while getting some exercise, buy this book, Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter or alternatively if your running low on time and want to skip the exercise thing, you could just click the link above and buy it here, lol ;o) You will need an Amazon account though… If you don't have an Amazon account, dont worry, its fast and easy to set up, just click the New customer link at the top of the page? and in a few minutes, voila you'll be a new customer :o)

If your lucky some of the Atkins books at the back also contain net carb tables, so check your Atkins books first :oD

So you have your net carb calculator, but your still unsure how to figure out the rough amount of net carbs to eat… you may still further ponder! Well this is how I go about it, first off I get a brief idea of what I want to eat, and then I look up each item of food which I will eventually mix together, and then I try calculating (roughly) the total food and its carbs content. Some foods are around the 0.2 mark, I tend to round off to either 0.5 or a whole carb. Basically that’s all there is to it. I tend to overestimate more than anything, this way I don’t end up over consuming on carbs. Also buy yourself some food scales from your local store.... or perhaps from amazon, check these scales out click here :o)

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