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Only 1.5 miles walked this AM with DH and doggies before we got rained out. I put in some good time on an XBox workout, so it should make up for the portion of the walk that got rained out.
Still not happy with non-movement of weight; patience has never been my strong suit. Kept carb percentage at 8% yesterday and total carbs at/below 40. Calories are in line. While I've written about keeping away from sugar alcohols, I DID have pancakes w/ SF syrup today....I mean, c'mon....it IS Saturday!!! LOL!! The only drawback is that I have to do some major adjustments the rest of the day so my total carbs don't climb too high.
There's one issue that slips by a lot of people. If you're going to indulge in sugar alcohols, then you've got to watch the database entries! I've seen a lot of instances where the total carbs on a package are 20+ and the sugar alcohols are 15+, so the net carbs come out to 2....or maybe 3. Some database entries for that same product will show 6 TCs, 3 fiber and then 3 NCs. Sure, the NCs come out the same, but a person gets a totally skewed look at their TOTAL carbs! IMHO, one cannot simply go by NCs if you're eating sugar alcohols....you've also got to watch the TRUE, on-the-package, total carbs, as well.
This is especially critical when a person has multiple items with sugar alcohols. Even the Atkins nutritionist has cautioned that if you go over about 10-25 g. of sugar alcohols per serving dose, you MAY be better served to subtract only half that amount to get your effective net carbs....due to a person's own individual sensitivity to the SAs.
If someone is one of the lucky folks that can handle a boatload of SAs, then there's no issue. But if not......you can always do, as I've done, which is to create my own custom food entry for any product containing sugar alcohols, showing the full TC amount, and not share that entry with the database. That way, any time I use the product, it shows up the way I want it to in my food diary with the full TC load shown. I also don't have to worry about the tug-of-war that so often takes place with people adjusting the database of sugar alcohol products one way, and then another.
View Diet Calendar, 18 February 2012:
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1317 kcal
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Fat: 90.49g | Prot: 88.87g | Carbs: 41.98g.
Breakfast: Al Fresco Country Style Chicken Sausage, Maple Grove Farms Sugar Free Pancake Mix, Mrs. Butterworth's Sugar Free Syrup, butter, egg. Lunch: Johnsonville Maple & Brown Sugar sausages. Dinner: Armenian cucumber, Wishbone ranch dressing, romaine, salad toppins, Organicville non-dairy ranch dressing, NY strip steak. Snacks/Other: Johnsonville New Orleans Andouille Smiked Sausage, blackberries. more...
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2014 kcal
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Exercise:
XBox adventures - 1 hour, Walking (exercise) - 5.5/kph - 26 minutes, Resting - 14 hours and 34 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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I know patience is so hard to come by these days. Hang in there - you are doing great. Although I don't use sugar alcohols I fully understand what you are talking about since I've had issues with the food database before. Custom food entries are the way to go.
18 Feb 12 by member: BuffyBear
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Hi ya Sandy...so glad I don't use those..as they mess my stomah up any way..I am curious though...Net carbs are the ones negative of fiber right??...Thats the way I have tried to count them on my own...I would like to stay at or below 100 net carbs a day..I know thats a lot but some days I use less...Hope you have a drier weekend than us..they are calling for 4 to 8 inches of snow Sunday night and Monday morning...
Oh well its still only 31 days til spring...Have a great day...:O)
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Sometimes Buffy, it's almost comical watching the database entries go back and forth on SA items. I try to limit my SAs, but I DO use them. Thanks for the encouragement.
19 Feb 12 by member: Sandy701
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Yes, Bren, net carbs are total carbs minus fiber - and minus the sugar alcohols too, but the database doesn't have a way to automatically subtract them. One could argue that with SAs above 10-25 g., perhaps they shouldn't be subtracted at all! In any event, because the database won't subtract them, some people set up new database entries with rather creative accounting to get the net carbs to come out correctly. Then someone else comes in and changes the entry to set it up the way they would like, then someone else changes it back, then....well, it just gets to be a mess. Kind of like the weather that might be coming your way, right? Stay warm - spring will be here soon!
19 Feb 12 by member: Sandy701
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