Thanks for the understanding! No wonder I put on 0.6 lbs this morning! But I also had some corned beef yesterday so I am hoping that some of it is water due to nitrates.

I sympathise too about the bamboo shoot incident!

Incidentally how big is 1 bamboo shoot? Because Fitday has them listed (cooked, fat added) at 10.48g of carbohydrate and 4.41g of fibre per cup?

So if you say that one bamboo shoot is 8g of carbohydrate (nett I assume) that would imply that 1 bamboo shoot is more than 1 cup?

Excuse my ignorance, never had a chance to eat bamboo shoots - well not knowingly anyway, I'm sure that in reality I eat a lot of things that I don't really know about when trying the local foods here in Singapore!