Thinkn about OWL Rung 2

whereami · #1 May 6th, 2009, 07:20 AM

Am not quite ready to move out of Rung 1 but living here in the Gulf i dont think im gonna find Fage greek yogurt and im trying to prepare for what i wanna try.

The regular yogurt says 6.5 carbs per 100grams. I looked it up on the internet and it says that one cup of yogurt has 236 grams so 1/2 cup would be 118 grams. Is that 18 grams a problem or should I take like 18 grams out by weighing it?

And then that would be 6.5 carbs and not 5 so how would you handle this if you were in my case?

Also milk says 100 milliliters is 4.7 carbs and that came up to being a little less than half a cup. So milk is an alternative but I really want yogurt.

**not2late** · #2 May 6th, 2009, 12:41 PM

When I added yogurt to my OWL, FAGE yogurt and all the other "Greek" yogurts were not even on the market!

I added regular, plain (non-flavored) full fat yogurt. Period. Nothing fancy.

**Elizellen** · #3 May 6th, 2009, 04:37 PM

I did some calculations and found that 5 carbs of your yogurt works out to about 75 grams - so weigh that amount out for your OWL addition.

whereami · #4 May 6th, 2009, 09:52 PM

Thanks for your replies....i was never good at math but can you tell me how you did the calculation? I would really appreciate it.

I tried to figure out how many carbs in one gram and then figure out how many grams for 5 carbs but i was getting weird numbers....

**Georgiana** · #5 May 6th, 2009, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by whereami

Thanks for your replies....i was never good at math but can you tell me how you did the calculation? I would really appreciate it.

I tried to figure out how many carbs in one gram and then figure out how many grams for 5 carbs but i was getting weird numbers....

Let's say a food has X net carbs per Y grams. And you want to find out how many grams (Z) you have to eat for 5 net carbs. Then what you do is:

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Z = 5*Y/X

For yogurt, since it has 6.5 net carbs per 100 grams, you have:

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Z = 5*100/6.5 = 76.92 grams of yogurt.

whereami · #6 May 6th, 2009, 11:13 PM

ok cool lol thanks soooooooooooooooo much!

chinadoll · #7 May 7th, 2009, 07:23 AM

LOL. Our teachers told us we would need algebra and here is the living proof!

**Elizellen** · #8 May 7th, 2009, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by chinadoll

LOL. Our teachers told us we would need algebra and here is the living proof!

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