caffeine question and a few weeks no loss

[liv]

I think it is very important to learn how to deal with stalls. Because they can be very frustrating. I know that personally. And I am trying to make this a life style so I should not worry about it but I do.
So glad to here that things started to move for you. And more will come. Just stick to basic whole foods and lots and lots of water.

I was going to ask you. Do you count total carbs or net carbs?

[Elizellen]

Congratulations for crossing the border into Twoterville
Keep up the good work

[Aways2Go]

I count net carbs, or intend to, but when I was having something like low carb tortillas, which I am no longer having, I didn't totally trust the whole "total carbs minus fiber carbs" idea on a pre-packaged item from most companies, so I unofficially split the difference. I don't trust a commercial company trying to sell me something to be completely truthful or accurate in their representations - maybe I'm just paranoid, LOL! Plain broccoli or cabbage or something like that, well that's another story. Case in point, I saw a low carb tortilla at the big chain grocery store last week that listed total carbs as 5 and fiber carbs as 10 or 12... on the nutritional label, not as part of the front label advertising... uhhh, I thought fiber carbs were PART of total carbs, so how can that be? Didn't matter, I have quit eating such things anyway, but is that some sort of label manipulation or what? I still am puzzled by that. Technically that would make them zero carbs since the fiber carbs listed are greater than the total carbs - which I certainly do NOT believe whatsoever.

I have noticed there are extra carbs calculated when using fitday as the fiber carbs in something like broccoli is not deducted. Rather than change the settings to list the fiber carbs and then deducting them myself every day, I have started "customizing" every food I eat with any regularity and changing the carbs to reflect the net carbs count. I also customized things like "water" and "walking" with no values for anything, just registering a "serving" - so they can be easily added and tracked on the same page with my daily food intake - a good reminder for me to drink more and walk more.

I'm excited to be in the two hundreds again. And more excited that I am currently hovering between 3x and 2x size shirts, so hopefully with another 10 to 20 pounds I can finally pack up a bunch of excess 3x clothes and donate them to some area charities and thin out my closet, which is overflowing with too many sizes. I don't mind hanging on to the smaller stuff, LOL!

[Aways2Go]

Twoterville - wahoo!
LOL!

[mission to lose]

Hi Aways2Go,
One little thing, Fitday does not subtract the fiber from your totals. So when you said for example, you went over your carbs by 3 when you had a total of 23, you may actually had less than 20, depending on how much fiber was in the foods you ate. I believe we are supposed to count net carbs, and you get that by subtracting the fiber from the carb total.
There is a way on Fitday to show the approximate fiber, so that you can subtract that amount in your head, the program won't subtract. That way you will know how many net carbs you are actually getting. You may be able to eat a little more carbs than you are now.
I am sorry, I don't remember how to get Fitday to show the carbs, a moderator might remember.
~Mary

[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by mission to lose

I am sorry, I don't remember how to get Fitday to show the carbs, a moderator might remember.

In it's old days, FitDay required changing a few settings to make it show dietary fiber. Since then they have upgraded their software and dietary fiber is now shown without the user having to change a thing.