Ron, thanks for showing this. What kind of cool software do you have to do this analysis?
First, let me explain. I followed TAl's thread on his
Low-Carb six-month report until my curiosity was tweaked enough to investigate it further. So I purchased the book,
The New Atkins, and was told of cutting Carbs to less than 20 per day. Okay, that should be easy. Well, I found it to be a lot more complicated than that. While counting Calories is extremely easy -- you simply control the amount of food that you eat -- counting Carbs involved a whole more. (This is like Budgeting your money by cutting back on spending that I spoke of in this
thread.) Problem number one is not depriving yourself of basic nutrition -- or, more specifically, creating a major imbalance. Number two was how do you control Carb intake in such small amounts?
Anyway, the nitty gritty was way beyond my abilities so I did what I always do under those circumstance -- I run out and buy a bunch of tools. The first was to purchase
NutriBase, a diet software program. (This is the program I used to analyze your Liver & Onions meal.) The second thing I purchased was a
Perfect Portion Food Scale. This scale measures weight in Grams and allows you to set the start point to zero -- so that you can accurately measure what goes on your plate by weighing, setting to zero, adding food, weighing, setting to zero, etc. (I should also add that this purchase allowed me to remove the USPS Postal Scale from the kitchen.)
I have been "on this kick" for about six weeks now (lost 15 lbs) and am just beginning to understand it all. In any event, NutriBase gives me some pretty nifty reports. For example, here are a couple of yesterday's:
FWIW, there have been a few "surprises" -- one, I don't miss my previous can't-do-without staples; potates and bread... at all. Second is how good low-carb foods taste -- I quickly found that calorie count was important despite what the Atkins folks say. And thirdly, not all vegetables are low-carb; who'd a thought that Squash and Beets would be off-limits.
OOPS: I seem to have left out the two eggs I had for Breakfast.