Hi Everyone

This is my first post & I know I have not introduced myself properly but I have just made a discovery which, I am sure you all know about, but it has solved the 'why isn't Atkins really working for me?' question and just may help someone else out.

I am a lurking newbie who has been following Atkins for 5 or 6 weeks now with varying degrees of success. I have read many success stories here with an increasing 'what's wrong with me?' attitude.

Today I discovered calorieking.com.au I was frantically searching for an Aussie version of fitday.com and stumbled across a link to calorieking. It is free and I can program it to count my carbs for me

To my utter horror & dismay I discovered that my 4 cups of coffee per day completely wiped out my daily carb count. What? HUH?? Oh s**t!!! I also found out my other treat, sweet chilli sauce, has about 800 million carbs

But.......... now I am on my way to TRUE low carbing. I may even fill out my profile properly when my fat butt starts to slide away

I am so sorry if this is common knowledge for everyone but I am REALLY excited now and feel today is TRUELY day One of Atkins for me

Thanks for reading........ if you made it this far

Hi there Cranky, and welcome.

I wouldn't worry too much about your coffee. The carb count will depend on what you put in it, and a splash of cream and a Splenda tablet or two shouldn't do too much damage.

As for the sweet chilli sauce, the word "sweet" is a bit of a giveaway there. One of the most important things you'll learn about low carbing is to read every label. Manufacturers sneak sugar and/or flour into the most amazing products!

All the best to you, matey.

Roz

Hi Cranky,
I have been a member of CalorieKing for a couple of years, even though the dietitians there don't support the low carb system, their food diary is the best Australian counter there is on line,I find it a bit strange that people tell me that aust food labels deduct the fibre for us, why is there a special "eff Carb" setting I wonder? any how I think I will just follow their food diary and put down their totals. They have been pretty accurate over the many years they have been in business.
Anyhow I hope to see you and others on this forum more often, lets see if we can all brighten it up and give the founders some support.
Cheers. Nev

Guys, the real issue is that people somehow believe they can eat unlimited stuff provided the carbs are low. Wrong. You will stall, every time. The only wayt to lose weight is to eat fewer calories than you consume. But the Rosemaryu Stantons of the world and other 'sugar -diet' pushers will have you eat bread and potatoes and all that stuff, ie - everything that converts to sugar. Low carb combined with low cal is absolutely a winner.

Hi Cranky

I'm new here and i also came across calorieking but couldn't quiet workout how to enter my daily meals. I was told it is free but when i went on there was some sort of price attached to it.

can you pls give me some quick instructions on how to navigate around there.

many thanks

Unfortunately Cranky hasn't visited our site for a couple of years.

I had enormous trouble trying to navigate Calorie King too. I do find it very helpful to give me info for individual items though.

Why don't you try using our MyPLAN to tally the carbs etc for your daily meals? Click on the yellow "MyPLAN" to the right of our green menu bar above the posts to enter it. We have a dedicated forum (click here) where you can get help and support.

thanks rosebud, i actually had started using it but not fully familiar with it yet.... i've noticed some of my meals that i have are not included as an option....

eg : (off the top of my head - there are more tho - chicken breast fillet - skin off - grilled or panfried) sorry i can't give you more examples right now.

deleting some entries - i have read the help section where it is explained how to delete but i still can't locate the button.

I have added loads of things as custom foods, because they just don't have them in the database. I get the nutritional info either from the pack, or from Calorie King, and add them as custom foods. It's a bit fiddly at first, but once you have the foods there, it makes it much easier in the end.

What exactly do you want to delete?
If you mean deleting an entry for that day, you just put a tick in the box at the right hand side, then you'll see a drop down menu at the bottom where it says "favourites." Just click on the arrow there and "delete" will come up.

If you want to delete something from your "favourites," or custom foods etc, click on "food lists" at the left hand side of the page, then you'll see where to put a tick to the left, and a similar drop down menu at the bottom where you can delete.

Keep asking if you still don't understand, or if there is something else.

thanks rosebud, I'm going to give it a go again