Fitday!

[elisabeth]

Thank you for your reply.
Forgetting fitday.......am I correct in assuming that if I include 10 or 20 gms of Whole Psyllium Husks i.e. pure fibre, to my daily food intake that it will reduce carb intake that day by 10-20 gms?
I am trying to keep to a max of 20gms at the moment and that is fine. The reason I began taking the fibre is to keep my bowels in order while at this stage and it got me thinking...is this one big diet secret....take fibre to counteract the carbs?
The tin suggests 10 gms twice a day so its quite safe.

[Elizellen]

Nope!!

The fibre grams in the psyllium husks have no impact at all on your other carbs. All you are doing is adding an extra amount of fibre which is not counted in your net carbs.

I notice you are in England. Our labels do not count fibre as being a carb at all, so it will not change anything. Fitday works on the US system which does count fiber in its total carbs, and then for Atkins they deduct the fiber to get the 'countable carbs', also called 'net carbs'.

Say you are eating 20 net carbs of other foods and add 10 grams of husks. Your total carb count (carbs less fiber in USA) will increase by 10 grams under the USA system of counting, your fiber grams will increase by 10 grams but your net carbs will not change and will still be 20.

Working by our non-USA system fibre is not counted in the total carbs on labels at all, so UK 'total carbs' = USA 'net carbs'.

This does get complicated when using fitday as for the numbers on our labels to be accepted as a 'custom food' entry we have to add the fibre carbs onto the total carbs listed on our labels and state the fibre carbs as well, so we can deduct them from Fitday's total carbs to get the net carb numbers.

You can see the difference on our labels by the fact that 'fibre' is not listed under the same heading as 'Carbohydrates' along with the 'of which sugars', but appears a couple of lines further down, after the 'fat, of which saturates' section.

[Elizellen]

Here is a US-style label . . . . . . . . . . and a UK-style label (I couldn't find labels for the same product, but you can see how they are set out differently I hope.)

[elisabeth]

Whew!!!! Not easy!!
I have printed out your reply so will try to digest it later....my bed-time reading!!
Thank you so much for your time and help.

[Greeneggs&ham]

It appears that Fitday changed their interface on the online version today. Much cleaner with several more options including the ability to track your body measurements. Overall, I'm impressed.

[elisabeth]

New site looks good...very smart.
I have been playing with it just now but seem not to be able to find the nutrients chart showing those I have ingested for just today.
All the tabs show how many over a week, 2 weeks etc. which is not what I want. I need this info each and every day for obvious reasons.
Anyone know?

[Georgiana]

If you go on the Foods tab, at the bottom of the page (where the pie chart is) you have another set of tabs - Calories, Nutrition, Cal. Balance, etc.

Just change the tabs there and you'll see your reports for the day.

If you want to check the reports for, let's say, two days ago, you click on the date (it's on top of the page)... a calendar will come up... and you just select the date you're interested in.

[Greeneggs&ham]

Are you looking at the "Foods" tab? That should show your totals for the current day, and the sub-tab (which defaults to calories) now also include a "nutrition" tab for viewing daily vitamin and mineral details.

[elisabeth]

Oh yes. Thankyou. How silly of me......I didn't scroll down!!

I added a picture earlier into my profile but it isn't showing here beside my name like yours.

Is there somewhere else I should be going to add a picture for show?

[elisabeth]

OK....found it!!