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Old 05-23-2005, 01:36 AM  
Dagwolf
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Originally Posted by MrC
From what i read you cant even eat salad or certain cheeses, Because when going through the inital atkins transition you have to only consume a maxium of 20? carbs in a day which is less than whats in a normal can of soda, pretty much your stuck on meats, barely any vegies because most contain natural sugars and any starch foods..
Actually I'm supposed to eat about 4 cups of salad a day. :-/

The fiber apparently is subtracted from the total, and lettuce is fairly low-carb anyway.

WHoops, back up: Fiber is a carbohydrate BUT it inhibits carb absorption ? something like that so
Total carbs minus carbs from fiber = net carbohydrates.
So if lettuce has 2 grams of carbs but 1 gram of it is fiber, the net carbohydrate count for a serving of lettuce would be 1 gram.
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