cheater question

"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I am ending the 2nd week on Atkins and I do my best to stay around 20 carbs
a day. I have lost 6 pounds.

When calculating the carbs in a food product you can deduct the fiber to
reach the net carbs. So in theory could I eat a pizza and take some
Metamucil to up the fiber content and negate some of the carbs?
Sounds a little like, if the elevator is hurtling toward the ground and I
jump just before it bottoms out I won't get hurt.
Just looking for some feedback.

you're doomed. if you cant do it without cheating its not going to work.
you're better off counting calories and playing with minusing out exercise
calories to allow for that pizza. Atkins relies on a very specific chemical
reaction to make it work...cheating will ensure that your body never gets in
ketosis and therefore the diet will not work. i suspect your 6 pound loss is
due to a calorie deficit...so congratulations.

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"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I am ending the 2nd week on Atkins and I do my best to stay around 20

carbs

Quoted message said:

a day. I have lost 6 pounds.

When calculating the carbs in a food product you can deduct the fiber to
reach the net carbs. So in theory could I eat a pizza and take some
Metamucil to up the fiber content and negate some of the carbs?
Sounds a little like, if the elevator is hurtling toward the ground and I
jump just before it bottoms out I won't get hurt.
Just looking for some feedback.

The number of calories in the metamucil would be added to the total, and
then deducted. Metamucil has calories, but we can't digest them. So, if you
ate a 300 calorie slice of pizza, and drank 3 rounded tsp. of the fiber with
water, the total calories would come to 360. Then the fiber would be
deducted from the total, giving you the same 300 calories you started with.
Since the calories from the fiber can't be digested, it is first added, and
then taken back out to get to "net carbs". Kind of tricky, eh?
Calories In Metamucil
http://www.metamucil.com/products/meta_sugarfree_powders.shtml

I think the food manufactures are betting on the confusion of how it is
deducted, and hoping people believe that for every gram of extra fiber that
is consumed, 1 extra gram of carbs can be deducted.

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Mark said:

When calculating the carbs in a food product you can deduct the fiber to
reach the net carbs. So in theory could I eat a pizza and take some
Metamucil to up the fiber content and negate some of the carbs?

The carbs for the Metamucil would be added in and then the carbs for its
fiber subtracted. It's only some of the carbs from the metamucil that
would be negated. The pizza carbs would still be there. Fiber is carb.

Priscilla

The math may not be what you think. You would take the 100 carbs of the
pizza and add the 30 carbs of multiple metamucil.
Total: 130

The pizza probably has some fiber, lets take a guess at 10.

You add the pizza fiber to the metamucil:
10 + 30 = 40

You can now deduct the 40 fiber carbs from the 130 pizza metamucil combo:
130 - 40 = 90 net carbs

"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I am ending the 2nd week on Atkins and I do my best to stay around 20

carbs

Quoted message said:

a day. I have lost 6 pounds.

When calculating the carbs in a food product you can deduct the fiber to
reach the net carbs. So in theory could I eat a pizza and take some
Metamucil to up the fiber content and negate some of the carbs?
Sounds a little like, if the elevator is hurtling toward the ground and I
jump just before it bottoms out I won't get hurt.
Just looking for some feedback.

That's exactly why you'll stay fat.

--
If the price of stupid ever goes up, I claim drilling rights to this guy's
head. -- MFW

"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I am ending the 2nd week on Atkins and I do my best to stay around 20 carbs
a day. I have lost 6 pounds.

When calculating the carbs in a food product you can deduct the fiber to
reach the net carbs. So in theory could I eat a pizza and take some
Metamucil to up the fiber content and negate some of the carbs?
Sounds a little like, if the elevator is hurtling toward the ground and I
jump just before it bottoms out I won't get hurt.
Just looking for some feedback.

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When calculating the carbs in a food product you can deduct the fiber to
reach the net carbs.

Yes, on a per product basis.

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So in theory could I eat a pizza and take some
Metamucil to up the fiber content and negate some of the carbs?

Nope. The pizza and fiber supplement
are separate products to be considered
individually.

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Sounds a little like, if the elevator is hurtling toward the ground and I
jump just before it bottoms out I won't get hurt.
Just looking for some feedback.

There is no magic food or supplement
that has more fiber than total carbs.
Total carbs - fiber = net carbs
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Mark said:

I am ending the 2nd week on Atkins and I do my best to stay around 20 carbs
a day. I have lost 6 pounds.

When calculating the carbs in a food product you can deduct the fiber to
reach the net carbs. So in theory could I eat a pizza and take some
Metamucil to up the fiber content and negate some of the carbs?
Sounds a little like, if the elevator is hurtling toward the ground and I
jump just before it bottoms out I won't get hurt.
Just looking for some feedback.

Sounds like you have no understanding of food in the stomach.

I am sorry to see such poor thinking.

According to your line of thinking, you could eat potatos and straw, and
the fiber in the straw would cancel out the carbohydrate calories in the
potatos.

You are still going to digest the potatos..... and those calories from
carbohydrates still count.

So, eating straw does not cancel out the carbohydrates of potatos.

Nor does Metamucil.

jbuch <jbuch@CUT_HERE.revealed.net> wrote:
:> Mark wrote:
:> > I am ending the 2nd week on Atkins and I do my best to stay around
:> > 20 carbs a day. I have lost 6 pounds.
:> >
:> > When calculating the carbs in a food product you can deduct the
:> > fiber to reach the net carbs. So in theory could I eat a pizza and
:> > take some Metamucil to up the fiber content and negate some of the
:> > carbs?
:> > Sounds a little like, if the elevator is hurtling toward the
:> > ground and I jump just before it bottoms out I won't get hurt.
:> > Just looking for some feedback.
:> >
:> >
:>
:>
:> Sounds like you have no understanding of food in the stomach.
:>
:> I am sorry to see such poor thinking.
:>
:>
:> According to your line of thinking, you could eat potatos and straw,
:> and
:> the fiber in the straw would cancel out the carbohydrate calories in
:> the potatos.
:>
:> You are still going to digest the potatos..... and those calories
:> from carbohydrates still count.
:>
:> So, eating straw does not cancel out the carbohydrates of potatos.
:>
:> Nor does Metamucil.

Seems as if you're (and others) are being harsh on this poor newbie at
LC....face it, the business about carbs and net carbs is (can be) confusing.
It's a bit more complicated than just saying eat low fat. Not only that,
this question has been asked by many others here before now, and will no
doubt be asked again, and again.

And most people have poor understanding of food in the stomach.

Ah...would that it were so.
Sadly....it aint just the carbs in the pizza---it's that those carbs
come from the suga in the tomato sauce and the white flour in the
crust---might as well eat a slab of sugar.

You're only ending your second week, and if you've been eating any white
flour/white sugar at all, then you probably still have cravings. The
only way to get past those craving is to break the addiction cycle----by
NOT eating ANY flour/sugar.

There's nothing wrong with the pepperoni, mushrooms and cheese! To be
successful at LCing, you just gotta accept it---you cannot eat the two
evil goodies.

The good news is....in a very short time without them, you WILL stop
craving them.

When you consider that the rest of the entire spectrum of food is open
to you....the giving up of these two items isnt such a bad deal. The
time will come when you can enjoy some corn on the cob, even a serving
of potatoes on occasion. But you gotta say "adios" to the two foods
that trigger the desire for MORE-- flour and sugar.

We're not kidding when we say, "addiction". It's a literal fact. Just as
the person who quits smoking can never "have just one",

Forget the pizza. However....spreading a handful of pepperoni slices on
a saucer, covering them with grated cheese, mushrooms, some parm, some
oregano and nuking or heating in the over doesnt suck. Not by a long
shot. Toss on a few crushed red pepper flakes....man, who needs the
sauce and crust?

The beauty part of LCing is, there's almost nothing you cant find a LC
sub for.

Hang in there---

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