The North East IS BEING POUNDED WITH EVERYTHING LOW CARB.
WENT TO BLIMPIES SANDWICH SHOP, FOUND A BROWNIE LISTED AS LC.
HERE ARE THE NUMBERS
29 TOTAL CARBS
1 G FIBER
28 SUGAR ALCOHOL
0 NET CARBS

Is it safe to eat?
It was AWESOME.

I"m pretty sure not okay. you subtract the fiber from the carbs and that gives you the total carbs and the sugar alcohols are not acceptable. Can't give you the specific whys, I'm sure someone will. Sorry if I'm wrong, but my guess would be no...
bcelisa

Alan, Lisa is right. Avoid sugar alcohols during induction. Get your own net carb count by deducting only fiber from the total carb count.

Even when you move to OWL, approach sugar alcohols with caution. Experiment to see how you react. Many people metabolize them very much like regular sugar, raising their blood glucose levels and knocking them right out of ketosis.

HTH

Maggie
5'1" ~~ Atkins since '98 (160+)
Maintaining nicely (110 +/-)
~~ Redhead until further notice!

So if a product is considered low in carbs because they deduct sugar alcohals should PROBABLY be avoided and just take total carbs minus fiber to get real carb count?

That is correct.

Barb - 30 lbs gone FOREVER!
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Atkins-3/14/03
174/144/135 5'2"
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
Knowledge is POWER

I guess I have been decieved. I have been trusting what the labels say. For example Russell stovers low carb becan delights say tghat there are only 3.2 net carbs per serving. However the nutrition facts say 24 total carbs and only 1g dietary fiber with 19 g sugar alcohol. Therefore, it would be 23 grams per serving. How can they get away with saing 3.2.
BTW, Maggie...Have you ever been told you look like Susan Serandan (mispelled)

Good luck all!!
Seesko

starting weight 242 1/5/04
goal weight 135

Smile...it makes people wonder what you are up to!

For those who don't know, sugar alcohol is actually a form of hidden carbs...that's why a lot of people who eat the l/c bars during Induction do not lose weight or it stalls them. I learned this awhile back and decided to precede with caution when it comes to those. I know that a lot of the products from Keto don't have sugar alcohol in them. I found out through the Keto Hot Coca product about the sguar alcohol being hidden carbs...sugar alochol can also cause bloating...

Sheyla
186/131/105 5'0"
from a size 18 to a size 4/6!
started Atkins 01/02
restarted 09/20/03

The Lord their God shall save them on that day as the flock of his people. They shall sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown. How ATTRACTIVE and BEAUTIFUL they will be! Zechariah 9:16

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Have you ever been told you look like Susan Serandan <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

*** sigh *** yeah. But I don't share her money or her politics.

Maggie
5'1" ~~ Atkins since '98 (160+)
Maintaining nicely (110 +/-)
~~ Redhead until further notice!

So let's make this simple for all.
Total carbs listed
Minus fibre
Equals the number to SAFELY use
No matter what the package wants you to believe.

Maggie:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>*** sigh *** yeah. But I don't share her money or her politics<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Nor do you share that yummy hunk o'man she lives with, Tim Robbins.

Gads! WHAT a man!

April
352/212/180
Down 140 pounds
32 to go...

Alan:

Not quite.
There's a hidden carb formula you can use here:

Hidden Carbs

If you want it in a simple Excel spreadsheet, I've made one and you can e-mail me at aprilreinhardt2@yahoo.com and I'll send it to you ASAP.

It sounds difficult, but really, it's not. Let's not make this harder than it has to be. If you have a foodstuff listing zero or little carbs, yet you see sugar or sugar alcohol in the ingredients, perform the hidden carb calculation to get the real carb content. Then you can subtract dietary fiber to get the ECC (effective carb content).

Or, you can choose to ignore all of that, eat the stuff anyway, and see how your body reacts to it. Some people are not affected in the least by sugar alcohols.

My two cents....

April
352/212/180
Down 140 pounds
32 to go...

April, LOL is Tim Robbins just absolutely adorable? He's an AWESOME actor too!!!!!

Barb - 30 lbs gone FOREVER!
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Atkins-3/14/03
174/144/135 5'2"
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
Knowledge is POWER

So, I'm thinking to myself "Who the **** is Tim Robbins?" (I am so not into knowing who's who.) So I googled him and got a picture. It's the guy from the Shawshank Redemption! Great movie! So was the book.

*** yup. Something else we definitely don't share. LOL!

Maggie
5'1" ~~ Atkins since '98 (160+)
Maintaining nicely (110 +/-)
~~ Redhead until further notice!

Ah, Maggie, you need to go rent Bull Durham.

**************
"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door."

... hmmm. Someone else told me that, too. OK, I'll put that on my list. (rent a movie. I haven't done that in ages. I wonder if my account is still alive? LOL!)

Maggie
5'1" ~~ Atkins since '98 (160+)
Maintaining nicely (110 +/-)
~~ Redhead until further notice!