Wed, Jul-19-06, 14:27
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Plan: LC, GF
Stats: 241/188/140
BF:
Progress: 52%
Location: Eastern ON, Canada
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Originally Posted by jscaruso
After reading the article and all the reply's about the artificial sweetners, Im beggining to wonder I wrote in earlier this morning on the introduction forum as today is the 1st time I have used your site,My question after introducing myself was... after being on the Atkins diet for 13 days now my ketostix still read in the small to moderate range I simply could not understand I literally make every dinner right out of the book, every morning I eat 2 sausage egg and cheese, no bread, and for lunch I have a grilled chicken salad no tomatoes just greens,England cucumber,cheese,grilled chicken, or tuna and salad dressing, now maybe during the day I will have some pepperoni and cheese, a few cheese stix, a controlled carb yogurt or a sugur free ice pop or 2, That is it I have not cheated AT ALL, However I do drink ALOT of coffee and ice coffee,in my hot cup of DECAF I have 2 equal and heavy creme,in my Decaf ice coffee ,(usually from D&D's) I have a medium decaf extra light with 4 equals and whip creme, Do you think it could be the equal that is stopping me from achieving ketosis, a dark purple result I really need to know!!!! Please help
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hi Samantha,
Yes, it's very likely that those packets of sweetener, plus the cream, may be putting your carbs wayyy over the limit. Each sweetener packet should be counted as 1 gram , and each fluid ounce of heavy cream is also 1 gram. Is the whipped cream from a can? because that stuff is full of sugar and can rack up quite a few carbs if you use a lot of it.
For the record, during Induction, you're limited to 3 packets of sweetener per day, and 2-3 oz of cream. It's a good idea to try to stay within these restrictions for the best chance of success with the program. Cutting out or at least cutting way back on sweeteners will also help curb your sweet tooth and lessen cravings for "real" sweets.
hth
Doreen
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