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.

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.

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.

One more question, can anyone tell me how many g's of fat I should aim to take in per day?

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