"Jenny" wrote in message
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Stargazer,

Based on the nutritional info you supplied for the bagels, the fiber has
already been deducted and the true carb count is 18. You've been
scammed..

If you multiply the given protein grams by 4 and the fat grams by 9 you
get
the number of non-carbohydrate calories accounted for. Subtract this from
the total calories given, and you get the calories from carbs. If you
divide the calories from carbs by 4 you get the grams of non-fiber carb.

Serving size 1 bagel, calories 190,

fat 4.5 (sat fat 0.5) == 40.5 calories from fat
protein 20g ==80 calories from protein

Total non-carb calories 120.5.

Carb calories (total 190 - total non-carb calories) =69.5

Carb grams (calories divided by 4) = 17.375.

Hmmm - very interesting, and thanks for the explanation! At 17.5g/serving
they still wouldn't be completely verboten for me as breakfast material
(seeing as I'm approaching Maintenance, and as best I can figure my CCLM is
going to be around 65-75g). But either way they're not something I probably
would want to eat daily anyway (they're good but I do like variety - and I
still like eggs more).

The good thing is that the one I had yesterday didn't seem to spike my
blood-sugar (I don't have a glucometer as I'm not diabetic, however from
past experience I do know what the corresponding blood-sugar drop after a
big spike feels like physically), nor induce any cravings like eating a
'regular' one would have. So that's good too.

But the warning is very well taken and appreciated. Especially for anyone
on Induction or OWL, a difference of 10g carbs/serving on something could
make a huge impact on daily total.

Stargazer
Atkins since Apr '03
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