Help!
I was entering some food into fitday and I noticed that cream cheese is listed as having 6 carbs per serving!!!!
The chive and onion Philly cream cheese I've been eating says it has 1carb per serving. Is fitday wrong on this one or is there something I should know about cream cheese. Is it off limits? HELP! |
No - 1 spoon of "regular" cream cheese is 0.386g of carbs - I eat it all the time - make sure it's full fat, not low or diet. Maybe the onion / chive combo is upping the carbs - they are kinda heavy.
Vikki |
I have read this a lot about Fitday on here. I would just enter the product you have under the custom foods section. When I was on a low-fatting it, I used the slim-fast site and they did the same thing.
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Fitday can be a little screwy sometimes. Did you adjust the quantity from the pull down menu? The defaults of portion size can sometimes be different from what you want. I believe that my cream cheese (kroger brand) says 2 carbs per 2 tbls. If you can't get the right carb count on Fitday, you can add a custom food and fill out the carb count yourself. :)
~Angi~ |
That is the first time that I've used fitday and I really think it's quite useless for me. Too time consuming.. I can just read labels for most everything that I eat from now on and get a general idea in my head. Thanks for the reassurance.
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Bridget, I too freaked at first, til I noticed the 6 carbs applied to 1 cup. I usually only use about 4 tbls a day. That drives the carb count way down. Make sure you look at the portion size that it naturally defaults at and adjust if necessary.
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One more question, can anyone tell me how many g's of fat I should aim to take in per day?
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This really depends on your caloric intake. Each gram of fat is equal to 9 calories. So, take 70% of the calories you are eating and divide it by 9
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