[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by Riverj

I have experimented with yams, sweet potatoes, corn, turnips, brown rice, kidney beans, garbanzo beans, peas, whole wheat bread, whole wheat pasta, barley, quinoa, amaranth, kamut, buckwheat, lentils, milk.

Great. Let me see if I get this right. Two weeks ago you were on OWL Rung 7. For the past two weeks you've gone through OWL Rung 8 and Rung 9, testing 13 (if I counted right) foods from these levels. Is this correct?

I test first the food on its own and then in a meal. At lunch they have even worse effects than in the evening, when my blood sugar stabilizes a bit, so I tested them at dinner mostly.

Okay. Let's take brown rice, for example. So you've eaten it on its own first (e.g. 1/3 cup brown rice with nothing else for that meal) and then with some food (e.g. 1/3 cup brown rice and 5 oz steak with some green veggies). Do I understand this correctly? Also, did you do both tests in one day or in separate days?

I haven't kept a food diary of everything I have eaten lately.
Also I have never measured anything, I don't weight foods or count calories, that's Atkins' prerogative after all. When I test new carbs I test a small amount so that the GL is less than 10. So corn was half a cob, yam was half a potato, turnip was a small one, brown rice was 1/3 cup, quinoa was 5 tablespoons before cooking, legumes is 1/2 cup, milk was a small glass.

Do you know how many net carbs are in 1/3 cup of brown rice or in 5 tablespoons of quinoa? Are you counting carbs at all?