Eggs? For breakfast lunch and dinner

[MaryMac]

I have a question. I thought that eggs contained a trace amount of carbohydrate, yet the FitDay program allots 1 gram per egg, or close to that. Is it true? Am in denial???

Thanks for your help
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[RCFletcher]

100g of egg contains 1.15g of carbohydrate. I just weighed a medium egg. It was 60g so it contains about 0.6g of carbs.

Fitday says that a cup of eggs - about 5 eggs has 3g of carbs.

So eggs are just over half a gram each. What more do you want?

I eat between 4 - 6 eggs a day - no problems. I lose fastest when eating eggs. I call them chicken fruit!

Robert

[lynne_dez]

I've always been under the impression that an egg has slightly less than 1g of carbs... I don't eat very many so I don't count them in my total (shh! don't tell!).

Do you think this is okay..? I eat 1 -2 a day, and I'm usually a little bit under my 20g daily total anyway. I beef them up a bit by adding a few whites... In an omelet you hardly notice th difference. And the whites have no carbs at all, just pure protein.

[RCFletcher]

What do you do with the yolks? Throw them away? Why not use the whole egg? It's the yolk which is full of goodness.

As I said 2 eggs is one carb and you should count it. I can lose weight on 5 or 6 eggs a day plus lots more stuff.

I checked the carb thig in fitday. A cup of yolks has 4.33g and a cup of whites has 3g - so you're not escaping the carbs when you just eat the whites.

[MaryMac]

Thanks for all the eggcellent input.

[justcindy]

The more eggs I eat, the more I lose weight! Something magical 'bout those eggs! LOL ;) :D

[Lisa N]

Fitday shows 1 gram of carb per egg because Fitday rounds up to the nearest whole number. Most eggs are about half a gram of carb each. It would take an awful lot of eggs to hit even 20 grams of carb (35 or so), so don't be afraid to eat a few eggs. ;)

[Larsie]

I am only into day #7 and am so tired of eggs that I could hardly swallow my scrambled at breakfast yesterday! I am also getting so confused when I read my Rules For induction (Atkins) and see that I can eat as much protein as I wish but am now hearing that the things I haven't been counting (eggs) do actually add-up! I eat eggs at about every meal and grab one for a snack too! Do I really need to count eggs, bacon, sausage, etc... each time I eat it? Also- any idea is smoked sausage (i.e. Hillshire Farms, etc...) is okay to gobble?

[murlist]

The first time I was on ATKINS (WOE) I ate eggs and cheese and meat galore...according to the Induction from the Yellow-covered AtkinsDietRevolution book - I lost 40 lbs in 3.5 months and kept it off for 1 YEAR! I slipped sorry to say but I am back on track...this time I reread the Atkins Diet REVISED and I do not find I am loosing as much if any with counting eggs - cheese adding veggies etc etc I think I am going back to eggs and meat for a good 2 weeks then add some more as I progress - Hope it works 2nd time around!
I want to be a LOOOOOSER!

[spiderdust]

murlist, some people find that when they slip off of low carbing & try it again, their bodies are a bit resistant to it. Hang in there & stick with it, it will work again! It might take a little longer, but I promise you that the revised way is healthier for you.