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Originally Posted by Dolemite
So the measuring cup should be the way to go for the vegetables, not the scale. I didn't see that on my sheet. I bet we have been overdoing the vegetables by doing it with weight. I am sure we are over thinking, but that question was what stood out. I am a bit farther on, working on 2 weeks straight of just a 1lb loss. But it could be an inaccurate scale coupled with the workout of snow removal for 2 days straight in the middle. Thanks for the input!
Oh yes - any physical activity (especially if you did NOT add an extra packet when you were done shoveling) can cause a stall! Your muscles retain water when they get worked out so if you were sore, you're probably retaining water.
I'm in Southeastern MA and after frantically shoveling out my car from the 3 foot snowbank at 1 AM because of the next day's freezing rain forecast, my scale was not kind to me
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Originally Posted by Fabulousatfifty
Scorbett - Thanks! My center told me that when I weigh my veggies and protein that is it cooked - oh no! So for spinach, I can have almost a whole bad once cooked. Also, I make a an eggplant/tomatoe chuncky sauce 1x/week and I measure our two cups of cooked......Week one I lost 6 poinds, week two weigh in is tomorrow.
Thanks for any advice here.
Raw measurements are how the diet was set up - spinach is one very clear illustration of why that is. If you eat a cup of cooked spinach versus measuring before cooking, you're going to be consuming a lot more veggies than you should. Yeah, the calories are negligible - BUT especially in the case of spinach, the issue is more with the acid reaction spinach causes in the guts. Ideal Protein is set up to be an alkali diet - that's why it's so anti inflammatory. Too much food that creates acid reactions in the guts can flare up inflammation...which causes water weight....which makes the scale misbehave.
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Originally Posted by evepet
I've read in a few official IP documents (as well as on those IdealCoachingTV videos that some people get) that our net carb count/day should be within the 25-40g/day range. Dieters who are particularly carb sensitive may find they need to stay closer to the low end of that range in order to lose. And it is net carbs - so you can subtract the fibre from the total carbs/day. IP also says somewhere (sorry, can no longer remember where - I've done a lot of reading over the past months) that as a guideline we can subtract 1/2 of the sugar alcohol gms in any food item from the overall carbs of that item.
That is the APPROXIMATE range of net carbs (total carbs minus dietary fiber). I have gone over at times, for MOST people a little deviation isn't going to make a difference. There are many who are very carb sensitive and need to stay at the low end or they get bloated.
Regarding the sugar alcohols, they still generate SOME kind of glycemic response - so while they may not register as carbs from a dietary standpoint, they still can make your body react as though it were receiving sugar carbs - just not necessarily at the same level. Plus sugar alcohols are well known to do nasty things to the GI tract. For these reasons, I do NOT subtract sugar alcohols - too many negatives to justify allowing them to make a food packet unrestricted for me.