Salad vs. Other Vegetables

[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by mustang802

Let's just say for argument sake that I wanted to use only lettuce for my total salad vegetable. Measuring by cup, I would have 2 cups which is only 2 net grams carbs according to fitday. However if I went by weight, 2 cups weighed approx. 150grams which worked out to be 2.7 net grams carbs.

That's because a cup is not an exact way to measure food. You can cram 2 cups of loosely packed lettuce in one cup if you wanted to, and same for any other vegetable. For example, 75 grams of mushrooms would occupy about a cup when sliced; but if were to cram whole mushrooms in one cup, you'd need about 90 grams of mushrooms to fill it.

Originally Posted by mustang802

I do have a question regarding lettuce.
We are to have 2 cups "salad vegetables" and one cup "other vegetables" per day for a total of 12-15 net grams of carbs daily.

Originally Posted by mustang802

Also, if I used 2 cups lettuce for 2 net grams carbs I then would need to consume between 10-13 net carbs by way of my 1 cup of "other vegetable". In order to get the carbs, I would think I would be over the 1 cup amount.

You do not have to eat 12-15 net carbs per day. All you have to do is have 3 cups of vegetables (either 3 cups of salad vegetables OR 2 cups of salad vegetables and 1 cup of vegetables from the "Other Vegetables" list) and make sure that over half of the net carbohydrates you are consuming come from vegetables. If the 3 cups of vegetables you are having one day add to, let's say, 7 net carbs, then you can have maximum 6 net carbs from foods like eggs, cheese, cream, avocado, organ meats, mussels, etc.

[Georgiana]

Not to confuse the original poster... I have merged your two threads in the "Atkins Diet 14-Day Induction" forum -- "Salad vs. Other Vegetables" and "Yet another vegetable question..." -- since the question you've asked in the latter was the same as the one you've asked here.

[mustang802]

OK, I get it now. I misunderstood. I thought I had to have 3 cups vegetables and within that 3 cups I had to have 12-15 net carbs.
That makes life alot easier for me now, thank you, thank you, thank you.

[not2late]

Cups measurement.....

Cups are a volume metric measurement. So 1 cup is the volume of food that can fit into 1 standard measuring cup.

There are 8 fluid ounces in 1 cup. But that doesn't mean that 1 cup of something will weigh 8 ounces. There are 3 exceptions to this: water, butter and sugar have the same dry weight and the same fluid weight.

I know it's confusing to folks who don't live in the US or the UK folks who don't remember the "imperial measurements" which were used before the switch to metric in the early 1970s.

If you go to the "Low Carb Cooking Lessons" forum, you'll find a post on measuring and you'll see pictures of measuring cups and spoons.