27%?

beerab · 04-28-2010, 12:29 PM

I was reading this:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sou...h-diet/MY00499

And it says on South Beach diet- while on phase 2, you are supposed to get 27% of your intake from carbs and no more.

Um... I'm getting more like 35% to 40% a day, losing the past few months at a rate of about 1 lb a week. (I weighed 212 in January).

Is anyone else keeping track of how much carbs they are consuming? I just feel like this is wrong- I thought besides phase 1 you weren't really supposed to count- but to just focus on eating the proper foods in phase 2. I was under the impression that in the first week you see how many times you can have some carbs (ie one time a day a meal with carbs, or 2 times a day) until you get an idea of what will make you lose and what will make you stall/gain?

Just curious cuz I'm like should I lower the amount of carbs I'm eating? They all mostly coming from multigrain items and the peas I'm eating (I LOVE peas) today.

How many carbs are you all consuming?

KellyEnix · 04-28-2010, 02:02 PM

I don't count carbs at all, BUT I almost always limit myself to 1 ww/multigrain serving a day. Almost all the other carbs I eat come from veggies, nuts, etc.

sarahyu · 04-28-2010, 02:20 PM

I'm in phase 1 starting 2 and so far on fitday I'm around 37% carbs from beans and veggies.

So I'm not sure where they are getting their numbers.

Sarah

EmmaD · 04-28-2010, 04:02 PM

Almost every day that I plan out, I enter in FitDay. The lowest carbohydrate percentage I saw since I started back on South Beach at the end of January is 29% - and that was a weird low-cal (~950), high-fat (43%) day with probably not enough veggies.

Average is a right around 40% carbs. I almost always limit myself to one grain serving/day.

Recent Phase 1 days were 32% and 34% carbs. But I eat a lot of beans.

The article says you get 10% carbs in Phase 1. Huh

Maybe they forgot that we eat beans and LOTS of veggies on South Beach?

EmmaD · 04-28-2010, 04:10 PM

Just for laughs, I entered their "typical" Phase 1 day that they listed.

B- omelet with 1 whole egg, 2 egg whites, 1 cup fresh spinach and 2 laughing cow cheese wedges, coffee w/ 1/2 c. 1% milk, V8 juice
S- celery sticks with 2 Tablespoons hummus
L- 3 oz grilled skinless chicken breast on 2 c. Romaine lettuce with lowfat balsamic vinaigrette
S- 1 oz mixed nuts
D - 3 oz grilled tuna, 1 c. cauliflower, 1 c. asparagus, 1 cup mixed salad greens with 1 medium tomato and 1/2 a red bell pepper with 1/2 Tablespoon olive oil
Dessert - 1/2 cup ricotta

No beans. No yogurt. 22% carbs. Still higher than their stated 10%.

BTW, this was only 1130 calories.

CyndiM · 04-28-2010, 04:14 PM

Emma - I noticed the same thing about their typical day

No actual citation for the information either. Disappointing but not surprising, I met the same sort of misinformation from the dietitian I met with when I started this journey.

beerab · 04-28-2010, 04:36 PM

But it's the mayoclinic- I thought they were a good source- it's just confusing to me. I feel like writing them a letter saying this isn't right! I've never ever hit below 20% doing SBD.

Did you see at maintenace you "jump up" to 28%? I'm like um really 1% difference? lol.

Today I am right in at 33.1%, yesterday I was at 36.9%...

Ruthxxx · 04-28-2010, 05:09 PM

I bet they are basing this on the original plan where there was no milk or yogurt.

murphmitch · 04-28-2010, 09:22 PM

I agree, I don't know where they got their figures. South Beach is more about being low glycemic than low carb.

TwynnB · 04-29-2010, 06:36 AM

Now that I think back, I used FitDay early on just to check my calorie content, and I never looked at the distribution of calories (unless it was really high fat from eating too many cashews) !! I think that's the joy of SB... is you don't have too.

Maybe their dietician is the same school as Cyndi's....

beerab · 04-29-2010, 10:50 AM

I look at it just for the heck of it on my sparkpeople.

CatMat · 04-29-2010, 11:46 AM

That was an interesting article. I used to believe that a calorie, was a calorie, was a calorie. I followed a 1200 calorie per day diet in the beginning of the year, faithfully measuring and logging everything. In 6 weeks I lost 4 lbs. Yuck. Now I'm on the third week of SB (just moved to Phase 2 and I've lost 9.5 lbs so far. I'm definitely a convert!

beerab · 04-29-2010, 01:10 PM

I hear ya on that CM- I counted calories for a freaking year and lost like 8 lbs- I switched to low carb and have lost 30 additional pounds since then.

ennay · 04-29-2010, 01:12 PM

seriously? No. On phase 2 I am usually between 40 and 55% carbs. If you are eating the amount of veggies it calls for plus the 3 servings of starch (which I usually get 2-3) and the 3 servings of fruit (of which I usually only get 1-2) there is no way to be at 27%

OK I went back and looked at my lowest carb day (I calorie count based on SBD)
I had I think only 1 fruit serving maybe 2 (cant remember if a serving is a whole apple or a half apple. I had a whole apple split over 2 meals). I had a slice of ezekiel bread with breakfast and a serving of brown rice at dinner.

So this baaaarely makes it into phase 2. Maybe it would be phase 1.5 and my carbs were 38%