Low Carb & Atkins Diet

sjwnana · New Member Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 4 Location: Georgia

Hi.. I have been on Atkins for over a year now.. mostly to maintain.. but gained a bit over the holidays and have taken it back off..
I love my low carb way of life.. I have many recipes I use but do not know how to find the way to figure the total carbs.. I have done Atkins off and on for many years..
Good to be on a group that thinks like I do..

Loleta Lynn · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:02 am Post subject:

Have you tried entering the individual ingredients into FITDAY.COM?
It takes some patience...but worked pretty well for me...Not that I do a lot of cooking these days...I "retired" back in September....long story...lol

Congratulations on being able to lose the holiday gain...and welcome aboard...
Lynn

Tril · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:31 am Post subject:

Welcome, SJW!

You can figure carb for any recipe by going to any good online website that give carb counts (the USDA site is one of the best). Total up the ingredients in your recipe and then divide the total by the number of servings. That's your total grams per serving. Don't forget to deduct any fiber grams to get the net grams!

sjwnana · New Member Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 4 Location: Georgia

Sorry that took so long .. I could not find how to post a reply.. finally found it..
I will go to the fit day and usda sites and see how it all goes..
I made the flax crackers today and they are goood.. also made the peanut butter balls.. yummy.. very rich..
I will get the hang of this soon I do hope..
take care

merlot · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:20 am Post subject:

Welcome, and good luck to you!!

Here is another site with lots of menu plans, recipes including pictures, reviews of the recipes and a lot of other good information for free!

www.genaw.com/lowcarb

Linda has a great deal of respect among the Atkins fans, as she has put a lot of work into her site. I know you will enjoy it.

Toni

sjwnana · New Member Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 4 Location: Georgia

yes,, I have used her site for a long long time and it is a really great one..
I thank you for the link and I will check it out again soon as i get a few min to ...think.heheh

sjwnana · New Member Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 4 Location: Georgia

Thanks .. I will sure give that a try I did not know about it.. then I will post some of my favorites..
have a good one..