a question for low carb folks...

[janinemh]

Do you count milk in your carb counting? I love my raw goat milk...

[Ruthla]

Yup, I count everything. I enter my foods in Fitday and let the computer calculate the carbs in everything, even eggs.

You can certainly include raw milk in your diet if you tolerate it well- just be aware of the carbs and cut the carbs from other sources if needed. Or increase your daily carb allotment to accomodate it. Or cut back on the milk (or drink kefir or unsweetened yogurt or cheese or cream) in place of unfermented milk if you find that your carbs are too high and it's messing up weight loss (or whatever goal you have for LCing.)

[jamie79]

Originally Posted by Ruthla

Yup, I count everything. I enter my foods in Fitday and let the computer calculate the carbs in everything, even eggs.

You can certainly include raw milk in your diet if you tolerate it well- just be aware of the carbs and cut the carbs from other sources if needed. Or increase your daily carb allotment to accomodate it. Or cut back on the milk (or drink kefir or unsweetened yogurt or cheese or cream) in place of unfermented milk if you find that your carbs are too high and it's messing up weight loss (or whatever goal you have for LCing.)

Ruthla,

How do you count in things that you make from scratch? I just started Fitday and am trying to figure it all out. For example, I make some raw cookies using apples, raisins, cashews, almonds, and sunflowers seeds. These are not on their list, except separately and I have no idea how to figure out how much is in each individual cookie.

Does that make sense? I am having the same trouble with figuring out how to input my veggie juice that I make. I juice spinach, carrots, an apple, and maybe some other greens. However, they don't have spinach juice on their list, just carrot juice and I am sure that there are lots more carbs in carrot juice than in spinach juice.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Jamie

[cristeen]

I suppose it would depend on your reason for being LC. I don't count my carbs at all anymore, since I'm not LCing for weight loss at this point. Although, even when I was counting I didn't really count milk... but, I might have 1 small glass/day at most.

As to how to find counts, the way I always did was using a recipe program called Accuchef. There are others that will do it too, but that one's my favorite. You enter your recipe into the program, tell it how much of each ingredient, and how many servings you wound up with, and it will tell you the nutrition info in each serving. I'm not sure how you would do juice though, if you're removing the pulp. I would think the counts would be virtually the same as for the whole veggie minus the fiber, but I'm no expert on that. If you juice in a blender, then you would count it as a whole carrot rather than carrot juice, etc.